Stupid stomach flu be damned! I’m back… and it’s just in time too. The new Apple store is opening here in town this Saturday at 10am. So we’ll be in line at 9am with hands out waiting for our free t-shirts (the 1,000 folks get one).
Apple emailed out the announcements yesterday morning. If you want more info you can find it here on the Apple site.
Adobe has announced that they will be offering a free online-based stripped down version of PhotoShop by year’s end.
Here’s the scoop. It’ll be interesting to see what features they offer for free and if/how they tie it into the desktop app.
So far SnipShot has met my basic needs for an online photo editor. Though I’m sure there are plenty of good alternatives out there.
Warner Books has announced that their new name is Grand Central Publishing. It’s all part of being bought by a French company last year.
I guess dropping “books” from your business/imprint’s name will be standard practice as the big companies move forward and look at online content, etc.
I do want to see the new logo though. Pass a link along if you stumble across it please!
A few weeks ago a very colorful and fun article made the rounds on many blogs. Schott’s NY Times article was about a self-confessed “book abuser” and sparked many create comments and posts across the blogosphere. Well know, folks are taking him to task about the similarities between his article and an essay that appears in Anne Fadiman’s book “Ex Libris.”
Here’s an informative post about it that I found via Books, Inq.
It’s a shame. Looks like the rash of plagerism by professionals over the past couple of years will keep eveyone under the microscope. I mean even if Schott didn’t copy, the burden of proof will always be on him to prove otherwise and regardless of the truth, his name has a smudge on it now.
