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		<title>Amazon wounded?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It didn&#8217;t take long for Amazon to cry uncle in The Macmillan Impasse (worst thriller title ever), and since then both HarperCollins and Hachette have indicated that they&#8217;re moving to a similar agency model, under which each publisher will set the retail price of e-books and share a percentage of revenues with its selling agents; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ma.ttrubinste.in/?p=458</link>
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		<title>e-books and iBooks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The day before the iPad launch, the Wall Street Journal reported some quite detailed rumours about Apple&#8217;s negotiations with publishers:
Apple is asking publishers to set two e-book price points for hardcover best sellers: $12.99 and $14.99, with fewer titles offered at $9.99. In setting their own e-book prices, publishers would avoid the threat of heavy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ma.ttrubinste.in/?p=446</link>
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		<title>iPads and iBooks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As usual the whole world is in roughly equal parts delighted and outraged by Apple&#8217;s latest portable gizmo, the iPad. Much has been made of the name: I personally can&#8217;t believe how many posters and commenters have used the exact phrase &#8220;sounds like a feminine hygiene product&#8221;, all apparently believing they&#8217;re the first to have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ma.ttrubinste.in/?p=439</link>
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		<title>Beat up Martin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently Apple is about to announce some kind of new gadget in the next week or so, and it&#8217;s going to revolutionise everything all over again. Although nobody thinks that the new device is going to be a mere e-book reader, it looks like it&#8217;s going to be at least an e-book reader, with Apple [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ma.ttrubinste.in/?p=176</link>
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		<title>Stay away from that jazz man</title>
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Last night I had the very great pleasure of catching famed jazz pianist Barney McAll with bass guy Jonathan Zwartz and drummer Simon Barker at the Macquarie Hotel. Barney was in town for some sold-out shows with the legendary Fred Wesley, but this was a more intimate acoustic gig. The piano trio is my favourite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ma.ttrubinste.in/?p=157</link>
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		<title>Unicode Fail</title>
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I&#8217;m all kinds of excited at the news that Greek publisher Livanis has just released its edition of Vellum.
Since the novel is all about translations and different kinds of writing, I was stoked when it was first translated and I&#8217;m even more stoked now that it&#8217;s come out in a different alphabet. My first intimation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ein leichter Regen am Donnerstag</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m thrilled to see that Goldmann Verlag is gearing up to publish A Little Rain on Thursday in Germany next month. They&#8217;ve gone for a near-calque of the Australian title and a very atmospheric rendition of one of the book&#8217;s central images, which I&#8217;ve had in my head and wanted to see for a long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adelaide Writers&#8217; Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m doing a couple of sessions at next week&#8217;s Adelaide Writers&#8217; Week, probably the greatest literary festival in the land. If you&#8217;re in town, come on down. Everything is free and the atmosphere is always fantastic.
At 11:00 am on Tuesday 4 March I&#8217;ll be talking about Rules and How to Break Them with Paul Auster, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreigners</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m about to be involved in an ingenious project devised by Brazilian author Daniela Abade. Dani has brought together a bunch of funky young writers from across the globe (and me) who will each pretend for a year that they are living in one of the other writers&#8217; hometowns, where they have in fact never [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ma.ttrubinste.in/?p=125</link>
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		<title>Punch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A short film I wrote has its premi&#232;re at the Melbourne International Film Festival tonight. Punch is an 11-minute fable of heartache and cream pies directed by Sotiris Dounoukos, who I most recently worked with on Paper &#038; Sand&#8212;which, gratifyingly, is still screening around the place, including last week at the Bangkok International Film Festival, [...]]]></description>
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