André Klein
Articles and Posts by André Klein
Are Typos The “Bugs” Of Written Language?
5 hours ago
Posted in Books, Indie Publishing | No comments

In the age of instant publishing we have cut out the middleman. Publishing houses are routinely avoided and replaced with the process of self-publishing. Agents and editors are left standing aside, and while quick earnings of self published authors caused a sensation at first, an old problem is coming to the fore again: the typo….
The Digital Revolution Kills Jobs Faster Than It Creates New Ones
May 14, 2013
Tags: digital revolution, employment, jobs, unemployment
Posted in Indie Publishing, Lifestyle, Technology | No comments

There are two kinds of people: those who complain about disruption and those who celebrate it. The former are the dying indie bookstores, music labels, film industry, little publishing houses unhappy with Amazon’s ToS – the latter are the start-up generation, VC investors, code monkeys and serial entrepreneurs. To those who preach the gospel of the…
On The Net, Everybody’s an Astronaut
May 7, 2013
Tags: information addiction, internet addiction
Posted in Lifestyle, Social Media | No comments

Isn’t the internet awesome? We use it for work, entertainment, socializing and as a scapegoat for all our problems. Not only does the web prevent us from getting any serious work done, it also kills our social lives and replaces it with likes and shares. My father in-law recently started using the internet. He has…
Why You Can’t Escape From The Internet
May 2, 2013
Tags: information addicition, internet addiction, Social Media
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When toddlers are getting addicted to iPads, parents spy on their kids on Facebook and teenagers can’t survive 24 hours offline without experiencing withdrawal symptoms it’s hard not to blame technology. After all, we wouldn’t be experiencing these problems without technology, so it must be technology which causes them, right? “Fitter, Happier, More Productive” While the symptoms…
If Content Is King, Are We Its Slaves?
April 25, 2013
Tags: Social Media, viral
Posted in Social Media | 5 comments

Once upon a time we spoke of songs, albums, images and articles. Nowadays, it’s called content: the stuff that makes the world go round. The Waterfall Of ‘Content’ It’s like this huge frickin’ waterfall and you’re just throwing your pebble in and it carries on down the waterfall and that’s that. Right, okay, next. –…
Of Swords & Dungeons: An Interactive Gamebook For German Learners
April 15, 2013
Tags: book release, German, learn german
Posted in Indie Publishing | No comments

After writing three detective stories for German learners in 2012 and seeing people embrace the format, I wanted to do something different and yet very similar in 2013. So, I decided to create an interactive fantasy ebook for German learners which would not just work on fancy tablets and smartphones but even on the fabulous…




