“No matter what you think of Amazon’s tactics, they surely don’t violate any laws. It is acting the way hardheaded companies usually act — inflicting some pain on the party in a dispute to move it toward resolution.”
Tag: 05.30.14
The Whole Damn Amazon-Hachette Dispute Didn’t Even Need To Happen
“The publishing world that is speaking as one against Amazon is really made up of two principal factions: publishers and authors. Their interests are not identical, and authors should consider the possibility that the publishers have contributed to the difficult situation they now face. Literature could end up suffering for it.”
Keeping A Small, Indie Press Alive While The Publishing World Flails
“She was surrounded by aspiring novelists there and saw the kind of sweat and pain that can go into writing a novel. She witnessed how a promising new voice could blossom when given a little encouragement but also understood the tragedy of a good novel unpublished.”
Study: Ignoring Someone Might Be Worse Than Bullying Them
“As damaging as office bullies’ unwanted attention appears to be, however, a group of researchers believes they’ve found something even more harmful to workers: no attention at all.”
Dissonance – In The Eye Of The Beholder?
Discordant sounds are just one element of dissonance. One reason the term is elusive is that the concept is both subjective (“What is harmony to one ear, may be dissonance to another,” as the writer Joseph Addison put it in 1711) and contextual.
The Met Opera Budget (Explained?)
Take, for example, the $169,000 poppy field used in this season’s $4.3 million production of “Prince Igor.” How does a flower patch cost $169,000? To explain, the Met pulled back the curtain on the five-year process of developing and budgeting “Prince Igor.”
Sony Moves One Of Hollywood’s Biggest Visual Effects Studios To Vancouver
“Vancouver has developed into a world-class centre for visual effects and animation production,” said Randy Lake, executive vice president and general manager at Sony Pictures Digital Productions, in a statement issued on Friday morning. “It offers an attractive lifestyle for artists in a robust business climate.”
Priest Buys Painting Because He “Liked The Frame,” Finds Out It’s a Van Dyck Worth £500,000
A priest, who snapped up an original Van Dyck portrait for £400 in an antiques shop, says he bought the painting “for the frame.”
British Education Minister Takes US Authors Out Of School Syllabus
“Longtime American favorites including John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” and Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” are off the syllabus for a major high school English qualification under new guidelines that focus almost exclusively on writers from Britain and Ireland.”
Cuban Cabaret Comes To The Ballet
“Most aspiring dancers and choreographers spend their teens perfecting their arabesques in ballet class or their spins in hip-hop. But when … Rosie Herrera was 16, she was learning a very different side of dance – as a showgirl strutting the stage of the Little Havana theatrical cabaret Teatro de Bellas Artes in fishnet stockings, high heels, feathered headdress and not much else.”