An item I co-authored in the Wilmington Business Journal about the e-book deal that indie booksellers, through the American Booksellers Association (ABA), have struck with Kobo books to sell devices and ebooks in their bookstores, focusing on local bookseller Pomegranate books: With the rise of the eReader and tablets, fewer people are reading physical books, […]
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Home Automation and Hardware Hacking
Cape Fear Economic Development Council » Ideation » Cape Fear, Home Automation, and Hardware Hacking. A post I wrote some time ago about Arduino and hardware hacking and the next big thing: Here’s a macroeconomic idea, tuned for this region and our demographics: To ride the next big wave of Internet technology, which many people […]
Wiley Cash’s Old School Book Tour
Wiley Cash says discussing his first novel A Land More Kind Than Home in front of novelist Clyde Edgerton is like “playing basketball in front of Michael Jordan.” It’s a perfect analogy. Direct, local, populist but incisive. Like Clyde Edgerton, Michael Jordan is a Wilmington, NC hero – our town hero! They are both friendly, earnest, regular guys who’ve made it onto the national stage. Wiley Cash is like this too. Listening to him, one feels connected – to the places described in his novel, towns like ours, to the characters, to the author himself. The analogy works because it reveals as much about its creator and his plain-spoken, working-man smarts as it does about the business of writing novels or anything else.