“Men are still on top of the annual list of highest earning authors, but this year women have made bigger strides than ever before.”
Tag: 08.10.12
Crowdfunding Cuts Out The Middleman (And Amazon Doesn’t Like It)
“Unglue.it works with copyright holders to determine a fair price to release their works under a Creative Commons license that allows a book to be copied and shared for free. The site then runs Kickstarter-style campaigns to get pledges up to the amount that would get the book released. In a blog post Thursday, Unglue.it says an account manager with Amazon Payments has told the company to void all pending payments. “Amazon has decided against ‘boarding fresh crowdfunding accounts at this time,'” the post says Unglue.it was told.”
It’s Here: The Merce Cunningham App
“Throughout his life Merce Cunningham came up with new ways to blend art and technology. … Now, three years after his death in 2009, Cunningham is again at the vanguard. On Friday the Aperture Foundation is to introduce its first interactive application for the iPad, ‘Merce Cunningham: 65 Years’.”