A reading list for Rory Gilmore
The rumours had been raging all summer but it was only a couple of weeks ago that Netflix confirmed it would be reuniting the cast of Gilmore Girls for four… Read more »
Two for Tuesday: Reviews! What Are They Good For? (Absolutely Nothing?) (Or Absolutely Everything?) (Or Something In Between?) Huh!
Topics discussed: Gene Simmons (again), this column’s terrible name (again), Salman Rushdie, Jonah Berger, Rick Moody, Goodreads, Amazon, Netflix, Barnes & Noble, the New York Review of Books, n+1, The… Read more »
Lemony Snicket joins Netflix
First Gilmore Girls, now this. Netflix announced yesterday that it is adapting Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events in to a TV series. A Series of Unfortunate Events follows… Read more »
Oyster, a “Netflix for ebooks,” launches to much fanfare
Oyster, a new book subscription app, launched this week to much fanfare. Already being called a “Netflix for books,” (by Mashable, GigaOm, the LA Times, and many more), Oyster works… Read more »
New study says consumers want a “Netflix for books”
29 percent of current UK ebook users are very interested in such a prospect… Read more »
THE HOLLYWOOD ECONOMIST: Hollywood, SOPA, and the Pirates of the Internet
A “2.0 edition” of Edward Jay Epstein’s The Hollywood Economist releases on January 24th. Below Epstein discusses why Hollywood is so intent on passing something like SOPA legislation. * * *… 2 / Read more »