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    • Prayer Glitch
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    • “Luckily, my wife earns enough”
      Yesterday, I stumbled over an interesting recording from the re:publica 2012 about the changing face of publishing titled: “What happens when authors circumvent publishing houses”. Especially noteworthy I found Leander Wattig‘s introductory talk whose core facts I’d like to summarize … Continue reading → […]
    • Why There Isn’t Any Competition In Self-Publishing
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    • Botanicula: The Return Of Creative Adventure Games
      I grew up with adventure games. Without characters like Zak McKracken, Guybrush Threepwood, Roger Wilco or Dr. Fred, my childhood is hard to imagine. Not only did these characters teach me the first meaningful sentences of English outside of an education … Continue reading → […]
    • Why The “Descriptive Camera” Gives Me The Creeps
      Everyone seems to be talking about the descriptive camera at the moment. If you haven’t heard about it yet, click the link. Basically, it’s a camera connected to a printer. Only, the printer doesn’t output an image but a description of … Continue reading → […]
    • How Ebooks & The Net Bring Us Back To The Middle Ages
      Recently, I’ve been reading the Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man, that (in)famous work of Marshall McLuhan, and it struck me that many of his insights relating to print media and reading culture can be applied to what is … Continue reading → […]
    • “Diamond Scrapmining”
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    • The Bermuda Triangle Of Social Network Data Sinks
      As much as I love the Internetz there’s something that really irks me, and no, I don’t mean the time-wasting (isn’t that its true purpose?) but something else entirely. “When you’re not paying for it you’re the product.” Companies like … Continue reading → […]
    • “Noon is neither before or after noon; it is simply noon.”
      At the moment I’m preparing the launch of my first picture book for children. I’m planning to kick it off with a free promo through Amazon. I’ve done it a few times before with other publications, and I like to … Continue reading → […]
    • Ramasser Les Feuilles à la Pelle
      For some reason only yesterday, after almost a decade of work on this domain, I had the idea to install WordPress here. The motive: to collect all the things that I’ve done over the years in some organizable (uncluttered?) way … Continue reading → […]

  • Articles and Posts by André Klein

    Kindle & Co: Between The Revolution and Degeneration of Reading Ebooks

    March 21, 2012

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    Posted in Books, Lifestyle | 2 comments

    libro_electronico

    The first ebook I ever saw (it was at the end of the 90s) was one of these “How To Make Money Online” schemes. It came with all the obligatory gratuitous images of bank notes, long sales letter including “social proof” of how Anne and Herbert became millionaires by following the “three step guide” and…

    3 Things To Do Instead Of Facebooking

    March 11, 2012

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    Posted in Social Media | 1 comment

    To those who’ve been reading this blog for a while, it will not come as a surprise that my relationship to Mr. Zuckerberg’s all-seing Social Network is… well… complicated. I haven’t yet deleted (sorry, it’s not possible to delete one’s Facebook account, I meant of course “temporarily deactivated”) my Facebook account. The only reason I still…

    Online Teaching Platforms: Why We Don’t (Really) Need Them To Make A Living

    March 9, 2012

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    Posted in Language Learning, Online Teaching | 6 comments

    noah-ark

    The blogosphere has been on fire for the last few days, ablaze with articles, comments, rants and promises, all regarding this simple question: If it’s really possible to make a full-time living teaching online, why isn’t it working out for so many? It was almost as if a wormhole had opened up in time and…

    The Blue & White Blues or: How Facebook Protects Your Content From Yourself

    March 2, 2012

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    Posted in Social Media | 1 comment

    moses-facebook

    Recently, I had an interesting talk with my mother who fervently refuses to be pulled into the fangs of the Social Network. She said something to the effect of: “Well, you see I’m not sitting in front of the screen all day long, I do understand that people who are working with computers will often quickly…

    3 Ways To Get More & Better Ideas

    February 27, 2012

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    Posted in Hacks & Tutorials | 3 comments

    brainstorming  by blankdots/flickr

    People sometimes ask me: “Where do you get all these ideas for your blog posts and books?” Do I climb the looming summits of some private Kilimanjaro of the mind, digging for gold with a pickaxe? Or do I descend into some underground lair of wild ideas, slaying the best and dragging them to the light?…

    The Unbearable Uncertainty Of Ebooks

    February 23, 2012

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    Posted in Books | 3 comments

    giraffe-books by h.koppdelaney on flickr

    A book, printed on paper, bound in leather or glued together is a comforting thing. You can put it on a shelf, and it won’t go anywhere. If you scrawl in the margins, it will remain. If you leave it in a dry place and don’t drop any water, fire or bombs on it, it…