Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning.
- Why we love untranslatable concepts.
- Here are a few tips on managing a 500-title ebook library.
- Mike Shatzkin has year zero thoughts about the changes in book publishing.
- David Newhoff warns that you shouldn't start a copyright fight that you don't understand.
- You're more susceptible to misinformation than you think.
- Here are Mark Coker's predictions on the ebook market for the coming year.
- Do you know these 18 weird names for everyday things?
- Nathan Bransford has 7 tips on how to be a productive writer.
500 ebooks is big?
Really? He must be new to the game.
BAEN bundles alone add up to over a thousand in less than a decade.
Gutenberg images offer tens of thousands in a singke download.
(Well, used to, anyway.)
And between permafree and promos getting 500 commercial books is trivial.
and most ereaders have no trouble managing a few thousand. onboard.
Some can even handle the full Gutenberg libraries and more.
Well, 500 is about the point where you need to develop the rules and policies for growing all the way to a 5k ebook library.
Yes/No column for books I’ve finished; what a great idea. I should have thought of that; I was using a tag.