The Open Road Blog

For the first time ever, ten sports and historical fiction titles for young readers by John R. Tunis, including baseball classics The Kid from Tomkinsville and Rookie of the Year, as well as Silence Over Dunkerque, which is set during World War II, are available in digital format from Open Road Integrated Media.

Novelist and sportswriter John R. Tunis, who was called "the paragon of boys' sports novelists" by the New York Times Book Review, is best remembered for his series of novels about the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s and 50s. The award-winning and prolific ...

Oliver Reichenstein of IA makes an astute case for a "Business Class for News," which, as a long-time happy subscriber to Ars Technica's Premium Service, I think has much greater potential to be a viable business model for publishers than does a traditional paywall. 

Cory Doctorow in the Guardian has a great, quick write-up of the recently-released "Media Piracy in Emerging Economies" report: 

"This weighty, 440-page report took thirty-five researchers three years to produce, and it is a careful, thoroughly documented rebuttal of practically everything you've ever heard or read about copyright infringement in the ...