Angus Thinks

Month: June 2006

  • SF publisher Jim Baen passed away

    I read today that Jim Baen of Baen books fame has passed away.

    I think I have more Baen SF books on my shelf than any other single publisher and to a great extent Baen Books the publisher was always strongly connected to Jim Baen the man. Baen have published some of my all time favourite books (including Bujold and Weber) and their approach to electronic publishing is by far the most rational, sensible and intelligent of any publisher.

    Although I never met him online or off; I feel, somehow, that reading the books that his company published changed the way that I think, and to a certain extent who I am.

    My sympathies are with his family and friends and my hope is that the spirit he brought to Baen Books will continue long into the future.

    [David Drake on Jim Baen]
    [Baen Books]

  • O2 buys the Link?

    This is a bit late, but I see that the mobile phone shops are starting to merge.

    O2 has bought The Link.

    I suspect very strongly that this will lead to substantial closures of stores. There seem to be any number of locations where the two companies have adjacent stores. My local shopping center has both and I think many other shopping centers have too.

    I’m not really sure whether the mobile phone stores can keep up the density they currently have, especially given that things seem to be past the initial goldrush period of mobile phone buying.

    [Link]