One: Asta In the Wings author Jan Elizabeth Watson assembles a playlist for Largehearted Boy.
Two: Simon Reynolds on zines. [via Warren Ellis]
Three: John Siracusa on digital publishing. [via The Book Oven]
This last one merits some qualification, as I don’t agree with all of Siracusa’s conclusions or his central metaphor. (There was a good debate happening in the comments section when last I checked.) I do think he makes two spot-on points, though: the first being that people are far more likely to purchase and read books digitally using an existing device as opposed to purchasing something specifically designed for that purpose. The other has more to do with semantics: the fact that an album is an album, regardless of whether the format is LP, CD, or MP3; yet a digital book has the “e-book” tag.