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Jul. 15th, 2010 03:51 pmThere, see, I'm catching up.
I am finally going to start on that Young Adult Fiction project I conceived almost two years ago, when I brainstormed a list of YAF authors I love and think are worth cajoling kids to read. I have written on just a couple of them... Eoin Colfer, if I remember correctly, and hmmm ... not sure whom else.
But I am going to start by marrying my exploration of my iPad with my list of YAF authors, and checking to see which ones are actually represented in the iBooks store, and the Amazon Kindle store. Because just randomly typing a few in, I sure didn't come up with much. Rick Riordan and his Olympians series. I didn't check, but obviously J. K. Rowling will be there. But who else will be, from my list? If you want to see the list, click on that link; it will take you back to that entry from January 14th, 2008. I think it's public... Or I can make it so.
The entire list comprises, by the way, 75 authors, and I add to it as I remember them. Only 21 are men. Only 7 or 8 are people of color. Of the twenty-one men, five are very old Dead White Men -- Twain, Kipling, Stevenson, Alger, and Baum.
YAF authors I love who have books available at (in? on?) the iBooks store:
Well, I already know that Twain, Kipling, Stevenson, and Alger are well-represented, and FREE, for that matter. L. Frank Baum is well-represented, but for some reason, nothing of his at all is free. I mean, it's cheap -- 99 cents for a collection of all the original Oz titles by Baum himself. Couldn't resist it. On the other hand, although Lewis Carroll is available for free, I didn't download it. Or list him. I don't like the Alice books, honestly. Or Lewis Carroll.
And I already know that Louisa May Alcott, L. M. Montgomery, Gene Stratton Porter, and Frances Hodgson Burnett are available for free. For some reason, at least at the iBookstore, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books are NOT available, at all. Haven't checked Kindle, yet.
On to more contemporary authors.
( Herein lieth a longish list )
I am finally going to start on that Young Adult Fiction project I conceived almost two years ago, when I brainstormed a list of YAF authors I love and think are worth cajoling kids to read. I have written on just a couple of them... Eoin Colfer, if I remember correctly, and hmmm ... not sure whom else.
But I am going to start by marrying my exploration of my iPad with my list of YAF authors, and checking to see which ones are actually represented in the iBooks store, and the Amazon Kindle store. Because just randomly typing a few in, I sure didn't come up with much. Rick Riordan and his Olympians series. I didn't check, but obviously J. K. Rowling will be there. But who else will be, from my list? If you want to see the list, click on that link; it will take you back to that entry from January 14th, 2008. I think it's public... Or I can make it so.
The entire list comprises, by the way, 75 authors, and I add to it as I remember them. Only 21 are men. Only 7 or 8 are people of color. Of the twenty-one men, five are very old Dead White Men -- Twain, Kipling, Stevenson, Alger, and Baum.
YAF authors I love who have books available at (in? on?) the iBooks store:
Well, I already know that Twain, Kipling, Stevenson, and Alger are well-represented, and FREE, for that matter. L. Frank Baum is well-represented, but for some reason, nothing of his at all is free. I mean, it's cheap -- 99 cents for a collection of all the original Oz titles by Baum himself. Couldn't resist it. On the other hand, although Lewis Carroll is available for free, I didn't download it. Or list him. I don't like the Alice books, honestly. Or Lewis Carroll.
And I already know that Louisa May Alcott, L. M. Montgomery, Gene Stratton Porter, and Frances Hodgson Burnett are available for free. For some reason, at least at the iBookstore, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books are NOT available, at all. Haven't checked Kindle, yet.
On to more contemporary authors.
( Herein lieth a longish list )