Caching up on important stuff

The Amazon!fail has been going on for the last week. The power wrestle about ebook prices between one of the biggest publishers Macmillan and Amazon triggered by iPad being perceived as a popular alternative to Kindle. Amazon stopped selling all the books published by Macmillan but pretty fast admitted to have lost the fight but didn't put the books back on for a long time after that admision which made it just look petty. John Scalzi have been blogging about this from affected autor poit of view. SFWA removed amazon links from its site in solidarity with the writers who where loosing on sales. And for balance another point of view.

In more uplifting note the SFX magazine handed it's awards. Another one for Neil Gaiman and Graveyard Book. Im especially happy for Evev Myles and Being Human.

And you can watch Kim Stanley Robinson giving a lecture on “Science, Religion, and Ideology” on Duke University. It's so strage to think that now it I'm so very close to that place that I could've gone to that talk if I knew about it and wasn't busy with organising my new life anyway.