The Reading Edge Podcast

Tony Antolino, senior vice president of Copia Interactive , has been involved with Copia from its beginnings about two years ago as an initiative of DMC Worldwide, a privately held company with a 56-year history. Copia is just about to launch via applications for desktop, iPad and browser, and they expect to begin offering e-reader devices in the fall. The Copia Beta that I've been trying reminds me of Goodreads, the social network for readers launched in December of 2006 that now has 3.5...

Social media evangelist Bryan Person did Part 2 of our conversation about the iPad on Thursday April 15, 2010. This gave me a chance to revisit my expectations on how good a reading device the iPad would be compared with the Kindle. We spoke 12 days after I had bought my 16GB WiFi-only iPad at […]

My Bennington MFA classmate Valerie Ellis and I attended a thought-provoking session on April 8, 2010, at The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) national convention here in Denver. The title was "The Networked Poetry Classroom," and one of the panelists was Michelle Taransky, who works full-time at the University of Pennsylvania's Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia. Michelle is also the author of Barn Burned, Then , selected by Marjorie Welish as winner of the 2008 Omnidawn...