Scenes from Inside Aleppo: How Life Has Been Transformed by Rebel Rule A Syrian writer revisits the city he attended college in, with sketches by Molly Crabapple. I first moved to Aleppo 10 years ago. At that time, the city was the world for me: the glorious past and the present, the bitter and the sweet. Digital Books and Your Rights: A Checklist for Readers Below we offer a checklist that can help guide your inquiry, as well as an extended explanation of why the answers to these questions matter. Not surprisingly, some of the issues overlap. For example, Digital Rights Management, or "DRM," matters not only because of the limits it places on users, but because of its impact on innovation and competition.
InHisName - SpreDet ForlagSpreDet Forlag This project will not be published as initially planned. The work and rights has been transferred back to the artist, Thomas Knarvik. He will publish the book with Bluitgen (Tøkk) in Denmark. The reasons behind the cancellation are explained in this article (I am working on an English version). Some info (sorry for bad English): – The book was started in spring and printed in June 2015, but cancelled before publication. An agreement about this between the publisher and the author was made in July. – Copies that were printed were shredded during summer.
Reader Privacy Act of 2011 The California Reader Privacy Act (SB 602) passed in October 2011 and will be going into effect on January 1st 2012. EFF and the California affiliates of the American Civil Liberties Union sponsored the bill, as it brings a much-needed digital rights upgrade to state law. It mirrors the strong privacy and free speech standards that are already in place and extends them to digital books and electronic reading records. As Californians increasingly rely on online services to browse read and buy books it is essential that state law keep pace to safeguard readers.
Cartoon Movement Cartoon Movement The Internet's #1 publishing platform for high quality political cartoons and comics journalism Navigation Vladimir Kazanevsky Amazon's Kindle Fire Sales Fizzle in 2012, Market Share Slips to Third That Apple remains in first place in the tablet market comes as no surprise. IDC's latest research shows that in the first quarter of 2012, Amazon's once-hot Kindle Fire is struggling. According to IDC, Amazon's share dropped from nearly 17% of the tablet market to 4%, with fewer than 700,000 units sold compared to Apple's 11.8 million. The inexpensive Kindle Fire took off when it was introduced in late 2011, giving Amazon 16.8% of the tablet market with 4.8 million shipments.
The Inktober Initiative - Mr Jake Parker 31 Days 31 Drawings Every October, artists all over the world take on the Inktober drawing challenge by doing one ink drawing a day the entire month. I created Inktober in 2009 as a challenge to improve my inking skills and develop positive drawing habits. It has since grown into a worldwide endeavor with thousands of artists taking on the challenge every year. Anyone can do Inktober, just pick up a pen and start drawing. The Official 2017 Inktober T-Shirt from Cotton Bureau! Stats from Amazon's KDP Select program might require a decoder ring Here are a few stories that caught my eye this week in the publishing space. Amazon’s KDP Select stats raise more questions than they answer Amazon released statistics from its Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) Select program this week, but deciphering what the numbers mean is tricky — the program may or may not be lucrative for authors. Reuters explained the program: KDP Select is an off-shoot of Kindle Direct Publishing, a system developed by Amazon that lets authors publish their books themselves online. If authors make a title exclusive to Amazon’s Kindle e-book store for at least 90 days, the book is eligible to be included in the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library and authors can earn a share of a $6 million annual pot of money based on how frequently the book is borrowed.
Gallery - Original Sketches These are "Prelims" Sketches that John Berkey has done over the years. These were rough sketches sent out to the client to approve for angle, color, content... Some of these were selected to be used as finals for John Berkey to paint from and some were never used as finals at all.