Tag Archives: memoir

eBook Week, Meta-Memoir

Posted on March 7, 2010 by Fred Bubbers

As I wrote yesterday, this week is “Read an eBook Week.” While the printed book is in danger of extinction, technological innovations, as well as business model innovations, make it clear that the way books are produced, distributed and bought … Continue reading →

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eBook Week, We Are the World

Posted on March 7, 2010 by Fred Bubbers

Living in Interesting Times This week, March 7 through 13, is “Read an eBook Week.”  Mark Coker, the founder of Smashwords.com, has an interview at Huffington Post with Rita Toews, who created the annual event in 2004, long before all … Continue reading →

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Gifts Epilogue: Christmas 1979

Posted on December 27, 2009 by Fred Bubbers

An epilogue to the previous post, “Gifts.” On Christmas Day of 1979, my parents, my sisters, and I drove out to Stony Brook to visit with Oma and Opa.  Opa was in the terminal stage of the cancer that would … Continue reading →

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Gifts

Posted on December 24, 2009 by Fred Bubbers

Part 1: This essay was originally published three years ago in Seeker Magazine.  When I began writing it, my only intent was to document a family story that was going to be forever lost due to the passage of time.  … Continue reading →

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My Old Man, BS Ph

Posted on October 25, 2009 by Fred Bubbers

The price war that erupted this week among Amazon, Wal-Mart, Target, and Barnes & Noble has authors, publishers, and independent booksellers nervously speculating about what the future holds for them.  Ironically, Barnes & Noble, whose sheer size gave it pricing … Continue reading →

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