links for 2009-06-06

• The Lowdown on Creative Content
  Starting a digital publishing business in an economic downturn
  (tags: digital publishing CreativeContent audiobooks thelowdown)
• Wired UK: Warren Ellis on the dubious virtues of electronic books
  A few quotes: "the Kindle emerged directly from Satan’s mangina and will doom them all"; "the iPhone, that vile, characterless slab of 1980s Star Trek plastic banality from the Bay Area Federation". Ouch, Warren, please! Bay Area Federation- now that is good.
  (tags: ebooks wired comedy)
• CrunchPad - eReader Darkhorse? | Fiction Matters
  Via Ryan- Michael Arrington of Techcrunch is bringing out the Crunchpad, a simple tablet/ wireless reading device. So another iPod moment for ebooks then.
  (tags: ereader techcrunch device)