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Infinity Ink Presents: An Internet

Amalgamation of contained digital content, a small internet on a USB drive, together with a unique, modified book.

Book Cover Breakdowns

Book cover breakdowns. Images are replaced with diagonal lines and text is replaced with bars of colour. Ongoing project since 2011. (via Readings : Jan Avendano )

When ‘It Just Works’ Doesn’t Work

Downloads, updates, logins, alerts, updates, logins, downloads… when do we ever get to just do what we came to do?

Litblog Roundup 30

Do writers get picky about music? Are E-books sufficiently advanced? What’s up with the new line of books coming out? All this and more in a new installment of the Litblog Roundup, a bi-weekly overview of topics, trends and highlights from the literary Internet.

Net Neutrality in a Nutshell

Everybody knows that the government is really good at the Internet, right? Al Gore invented the Internet, right ? That new healthcare website worked just as well as Google and Facebook, right out of the box, right ? The government we trust to protect the freedom of the press and of speech has zero interest monitoring our every single communication, right ? We’re fucked, right? Well, maybe the giant corporations can better serve our interests, while using our money to keep those government bozos from meddling with our affairs. Surely those good, American corporations want us to see whatever we want on the Internet, whenever we want, right? No, it’s called blocking . Surely since we’re paying them for the quality of their products, they would never intentionally reduce that quality? No, it’s called throttling . Certainly, since there’s a freedom of information in this great land of ours, everyone’s Internet is the same Internet? No, there’s a better Internet that you may not have, called the fast lane . We’re pretty much fucked. Last week, new rules were created by the United States’ Federal Communications Commission. No, they’re not regulations about when you can or can not drop the F bomb . These are some additional regulations intended to protect something called Net Neutrality. Let’s take a look at all that, shall we? Let’s see whether it can un-fuck any of this mess.

So Many Publishing Platforms, So Little Time

Here’s a run-down of just a few of the publishing platforms to get your writing online fast and easy.

More Things Not To Do At A Literary Reading

Cliché has no place in poetry, because it isn’t artful.

Ten Things Not to Do at a Literary Reading

Literary events, like any live performance, are bound to have some glitches here and there. Some of those glitches are easily avoided.

Every Book Deserves a Great Cover

Recovering the Classics Recovering the Classics is a crowdsourced collection of original covers for great works in the public domain where anyone can contribute. Why? Sadly, many of the greatest classics in the public domain are left with poorly designed or auto-generated covers that fail to capture what makes these books exciting and inspiring to us. So we invited illustrators, typographers, and designers of all stripes to create new covers for 100 of the greatest works in the public domain.

Ten Reasons Why I (don’t really) Love Lists.

With a list, you can quickly fill up the page without having to actually write very much. It’s kind of like using a really big typeface to get out of writing a long book report.

Book Companion Websites

A survey of websites designed to promote books, authors, and publishers. How are they designed? How do they work?

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