Much of what I will do here will be to provide links to publishing and writing information and occasionally add a little (a very little) insight myself.  I don't want waste your time with my blather.  These posts won't quite be twitter short but probably FB short or FB+.  Only sometimes will I get into detailed discussions of a subject or two.  But I promise to have links for those posts as well.  If only because when I read my daily Publisher's Lunch Deluxe email (everyone who self publishes needs to cough up the $20/mo for the subscription), they could have had the most brilliant, insightful, game changing commentary but I will still rush through to the bottom where their links are.  I don't think that's a comment on their writing-- just that the eyes naturally go to links in the internet age. (<--See--truly insightful and brilliant stuff!! Links matter for the internet-- I must be the first person to have thot that thot.)

Moving on.

This article is cool for a number of reasons.  My favorite, tho, is that India had one of the lowest percentages of people surveyed that said they would never try an ebook.  Yes, there were other countries, but India is an English market so, yay, no translator required!
http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2012/world-catching-up-to-u-s-in-e-book-buying-habits-study-says/

And this one truly did affect my life.  I have quite a few titles under a number of different pen names so it was understandably freaky when ALL of them lost their buy buttons.  Everyone was trying to figure out the pattern of who lost buttons but there didn't seem to be any.  Kindle only, but across genre, fic and non-fic, trad and indie, KDP and non.  Who knows what algorithm got tinkered with to produce that craziness (and lost income for all parties).  I doubt Amazon will reimburse us.  Just sayin'.
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE82Q1C920120327?irpc=932

Okay, this one isn't writing or publishing related.  It's just funny.
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUS364326921920120327?irpc=932

Ttfn,
Kate