Jaron Lanier (author of You Are Not A Gadget) wrote this past Sunday in the New York Times Magazine about technology and education, while touching briefly on the pains of letting algorithms choose your music, and even defining what your musical tastes might be.

It...

In today's PWxyz post about Kindle 3 being announced, the Amazon VP of Kindle Content (ie, the guy who holds the publishers' hands) was quoted:

"The market is even bigger than we thought," said Russ Grandinetti, VP of Kindle Content, about the size of the e-reader audience. He...

I bought an iPad. Anybody who has worked with me will not be surprised to hear this. Clinically speaking, I could probably be diagnosed with a near-fatal Stage III case of Apple Fanboy Syndrome. But this time, I didn't just whip out the personal credit card and order blindly. I...

We're just two weeks away from Thanksgiving, and from a bookseller's perspective, we're also two weeks away from an even more important day: Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, when all of America seems to lose their mind and spends the day engaged in a marathon shopping binge searching for...

It won't come as a surprise to any of you grownups out there, but we're living in a pretty scary world. From H1N1, global terrorism, our soldiers posted around the world, droughts, obesity, hurricanes and global warming, we're in kind of a pickle.

If you've got children, you're probably...

Although I'm now spending some of my time as a book blogger here at the Huffington Post and at my3books, my actual day job is an independent sales rep for a diverse bunch of small to medium-sized independent publishers.

I put the emphasis on "independent" because we are...