“For too long, publishers have been worrying about the wrong thing, chasing pie-in-the-sky DRM that has never worked at stopping piracy, and will never work. In the process, they’ve fashioned a scourge for their own industry—a multimillion-dollar liability that their customers will have to absorb in order for publishers to get back any leverage [...]

  “The world is changing — it’s possible for people to do almost anything they set their minds to,” said Elizabeth Hines (pen name: E. S. Hines), a high school junior from Annapolis, Md., whose debut novel, “The Last Dove,” was recently released by the self-publishing imprint Xlibris. She has other projects going, too. “The Black [...]

“I joined thinking all my worst fears would be true, that Twitter is full of idiots, self-aggrandizers, and narcissists. There’s some of that, but there are also a lot of interesting discussions and news whipping around. I’m a little hooked at the moment.” Oh man, are people going to give Franzen flack for doing a [...]