Morning Report

This a quick run down of the articles/posts I’ve read this past week.

Super Bowl 2010

What about that Super Bowl 2010, huh? Con­grats to the New Orleans Saints! I’m sure this win has spe­cial mean­ing for the peo­ple of New Orleans who’ve had some tri­als and tribu­la­tions this past few years. Con­grat­u­la­tions to you all.

I was at work so I didn’t get to catch the com­mer­cials for Super Bowl 2010. Did you have any favorites? Here’s the back story behind the Leno-Oprah-Letterman ad that I found funny con­sid­er­ing the his­tory between all three par­tic­i­pants. Via Bill_Landay (Twitter)

Higher Ebook Prices On the Horizon

The feud is allegedly over between online retailer Ama​zon​.com and one of the big “six” pub­lish­ers, Macmil­lan. For one solid week, the “buy new” links were pulled for all Macmil­lan titles while authors and read­ers watched from the side­lines. I don’t sus­pect that my read­ing habits will change much now that pub­lish­ers are get­ting ready to raise ebook prices. I never bought Macmil­lan ebooks or any other publisher’s if they were priced higher than the mmp.

Make sure to check out this arti­cle, My Ebook Res­o­lu­tion: Say­ing No to the Ebook Tax at Dear Author, writ­ten by Jane. I agree with her res­o­lu­tions and plan to con­tinue doing what I’ve always been doing and that is not buy­ing ebooks that are priced higher than the mmp and stop buy­ing hard­cov­ers. My plan to sup­port authors is to con­tinue buy­ing their ebook(s) at rea­son­able cost as usual. I have a tbr pile that could sus­tain me for a few years, too.

British Actor Who Por­trayed Peter Wim­sey on the BBC Has Died

Seems that British actor, Ian Carmichael, who por­trayed Lord Peter Wim­sey on the BBC series passed away. I’ve heard a lot of good things about the Peter Wim­sey series from my fel­low read­ers. So much so that I bought the first book to try, Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Say­ers.

Con­test Equal Free Books

Con­test is ongo­ing right now at Jessica’s blog from Racy Romance Reviews. She’s giv­ing away all her print books since she already owns the audio or ebook version(s) of them. I should do this but I am too lazy. Any­way, make note of this: “Con­test ends mid­night East­ern time Sat­ur­day 2/13.”

What Are You Reading?

I am cur­rently read­ing a ebook, The Girl With Who Played With Fire by Stieg Lars­son. So far, it is AWESOME. Not sure if many of you have seen this YouTube video, just pic­tures set to music of Noomi Rapace as Lis­beth Salan­der in the movie ver­sion (WSJ arti­cle) of The Girl With The Dragon Tat­too.

For Fur­ther Reading

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