New Thinking on Digital Book Pricing – BookNet 101 – Nathan Maharaj. Fascinating stuff. 2/3 of Kobo books 3 months after purchase were never opened. Charts of anonymized top selling books compared for open-rate, completion rate, and number of reads it takes to either finish or give up. And he shows cost per hour of […]
Author Archives: Pearl
95books for 2014, list 7: Quiet Kinds of Connection
A bunch of things from the small press fair. My acquisition rate sometimes exceeds my grasp. Jen Currin’s School (Coach House, 2014) A mix of non-sequitur, wisdom lines (such as p. 77 “even our motives are at present misunderstood.”), plain confusion and torsion, talking thru love, lost love and chemo. Each line is straightforward but […]
LitLand: Margo LaPierre on July 24
The episode that marks my one year anniversary on the air. The 20th show landmark! Live in the studio with Margo LaPierre. Margo LaPierre has been coming over the season to Tree Reading Series open mics leading people like me to come up to her and say, who are you and where did you come […]
Coming Up: Fotheringham & Morden
July 3rd on Literary Landscapes: talking with Avonlea Fotheringham (sample poems on Soundcloud) who is the feature at this week’s CPC Summer Slam. Avonlea will be launching a new collaborative poetry chapbook, Mythopoeia, with Chris Johnson there on July 5, 2014. July 5th at the Mercury Lounge 56 Byward Market Square, Ottawa, $8 cover sign-up […]
Advice to writers
At the Toronto Quarterly Angela Carr What kinds of advice would you give to aspiring poets? 1. Read. Read. Read. 2. Don’t fall prey to the romantic image of the debauched poet. Take care of your body.