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At the Sharpe End

My second published novel. Click the cover for more information, including ordering signed copies:

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Reports of the book's death are greatly exaggerated

We only have 30 years at most to enjoy physical books, according to Ziggy Kinsella.

The rule is that if a thing is around long enough, sooner or later it’s going to become extinct. And this, my friends, is the case for the content of the book too. It’s about to be hammered into extinction and [...]

Do ebooks really work?

Anna Andreevna Akhmatova

Typically, I’m quite a technophile. I’ll probably get myself an iPad (as soon as it has 3G coverage here in Japan, that is, and I know that I will be able to read books on it, as well as do other things that I want to do), and I like new toys [...]

The future of iTunes?

The lack of an explicitly described Mac platform in the Blio, as I wrote earlier, makes me think.

System Requirements

Microsoft Windows XP (Service Pack 3+)
Microsoft Windows Vista (Service Pack 2+)
Microsoft Windows 7
Microsoft .NET 3.5 SP 1
Windows Media Player 10 or higher

1.6 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor (Atom processor or better)
1 GB of system memory
Audio [...]

So much for the global village

Broken Kindle – from http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/05/untitled-2/

The Kindle is a way to get your work easily and quickly to anyone in the world, right? No more tiresome printing, cutting down of trees, shipping, etc. etc. Instant gratification for all readers, right?

Wrong! I looked at how to publish on Amazon, and it appeared that I needed to [...]

Blog is up and ready to read!

Welcome to the Beneath Gray Skies blog, which is replacing the previous static page site.

I’ve been having a lot of fun with this installation of WordPress. Some years ago, I moved away from blogging for about a year, seeing it as a rather narcissistic and somewhat senseless exercise for someone like me.

However, now that I [...]