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With apologies to T. H. White for the title. I was recently approached by MyScript, a company focused on handwriting recognition software, about their latest iOS app, MyScript Stylus for iOS. (Don’t worry, Paul, it’s also available in beta on Android.) I tried it out and was surprised at how well it recognized my handwriting. […]

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Janet at Dear Author has a well-argued opinion piece up today on the whole Kathleen Hale story—I’d actually been reading up about it before Paul covered it yesterday but I still had not formulated my response to it and was content to let another Teleread contributor beat me to the punch. Janet makes some good […]

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I just happened to sit down and read the Robert McCrum article on struggling literary fiction authors that Paul covered earlier this month. It was interesting enough, and I’m don’t think I have substantively anything more to say about the content of the article itself than Paul did. But I was intrigued by a couple [...]

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So, self-publishing and traditional-publishing author Hugh Howey published a report on some data he pulled from Amazon and crunched (Paul covered it here), purporting to show some things about the number of self-published books compared to those from traditional publishers. This has touched off a lot of blowback in the last couple of weeks as [...]

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