Archive for January, 2009
Amazon doesn’t do a good job letting you know when a print book becomes a Kindle book…. I ran into this problem so many times that I created a website which lets me monitor print books on Amazon.com to alert me the moment they become Kindle books:
http://oscurapress.com/mysteria
And while doing that, I found that it was pretty easy to do the same for MP3 songs and Unbox videos as well. There’s a slow but steady digital revolution happening, and all the world’s content is (slowly, but steadily) being converted. Mysteria lets you pick the content you want in your wishlist, and once it’s converted to digital format, sends you an email.
It’s a brand-spanking new application, so I’m really interested in hearing early-adopter feedback if you have it. You can email me at jason@oscurapress.com
Thanks!
And in my zeal to index all the Oscura Press books, I made them available on Amazon’s Search Inside the Book program too:
Oscura Press books are now on the Google Books site - it’s amazing!
You know, I met a guy named Gary once in New Mexico who was very proud of the fact that he said that he was “working with Google” to get his site indexed. I liked the way he phrased it; it sounded as if he had a direct connection to someone at the Google offices, was working the deal, you know, taking care of business. So I suppose here, I too have finished working with Google to get this indexed. I have become Gary 2.0.
I’ve got a lot of books on my (existential) back-burner, and while editing one of them last month I came across a great line about clouds — which inspired me to write and illustrate a book about antique clouds. It will contain period-piece photographs of clouds from the 1860s to the 1930s, tinted in period colors. Clouds are evanescent, ephemeral, and there’s something tragic & sad & yet upspiring about looking at photos of old clouds, from a time before you were born. I hope this proves to be an interesting book!
I created a tag cloud for Oscura Press; here are some winners!
