The official web home of William F. Aicher: the author of The Trouble With Being God and a self-proclaimed Internet rock star since 1996.
I’m addicted to my Roomba. In fact, I’m so addicted that I’m addicted to three Roombas (and one Scooba). They all have names. There’s Bob 2, Bob 3 and Sir Roberto the Fourth. (Bob 1 died, unfortunately). The Scooba is named Norbert.
If you don’t know what a Roomba is, the basic idea is this: it’s [...]
In a recent post, I mentioned that I was working on a new novel. This is true, but what I didn’t mention is that I’m also working on a new piece of nonfiction. This work focuses primarily on the cost and value of creation, and the damages that are happening to the creative class [...]
Yesterday afternoon here at South by Southwest (SXSW) I had the chance to sit in on a panel featuring Clay Shirky (author of Here Comes Everybody) and several key members of the traditional book publishing world, including representatives of Penguin and Bloomsbury, titled New Think for Old Publishers. Unfortunately this panel had very little think [...]
I’m sitting here on the floor at Austin’s South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive conference, waiting f0r the next panel discussion on my schedule to start, but as I sit here I wonder a bit what the point of coming to these conference really is. Sure, there are a lot of smart people here, and for [...]
Lately I’ve been trying to put a lot more focus on the idea of balance. In particular, finding balance between nature and technology within everyday life. I’ve always been a lover of both, but beyond personal interest I am a strong believer that finding an equilibrium between the two of them is key in [...]
As a person who loves reading and has bought and read literally thousands of books, I never thought I’d say it, but I don’t like reading books anymore. It’s not that I don’t enjoy reading stories, or novels, nonfiction, etc. – it’s that I don’t like reading books. That’s right, the ink-on-paper all bound in [...]
Please note this is first in a series.
As most of you know, I work for an online publisher/retailer (albeit, for music publishing) and we sell several million dollars of downloadable content every year. Some of this is extremely popular, and some of it has a very small, but very devoted fanbase.
Our top 20 sellers make [...]