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04/02/2026

If Draft2Digital is distributing your ebooks, you can now make them available to interested local bookstores that belong to Bookshop.org. And if D2D prints your paperbacks, that’s another pos…

04/02/2026

By Paul St.John Mackintosh.

For readers who are distressed by the double impact that online book malls and ebooks have on traditional bookshops, Bookshop.org has been offering since 2020 an alternative to Amazon and other onl…

28/12/2025

As antisemitism and Islamophobia rise, a community centre brings people together over shared meals, offering an antidote to food poverty, social isolation and division

14/11/2025

Hyperlinked books and other interconnected information—imagine the AI potential of a truly trustworthy national digital library system. But beware if you want AI companies to be part of the effort.…

14/11/2025

By Paul StJohn Mackintosh.

Lyon is France’s second city, renowned as the capital of the rest of the country while Paris is the metropole. And OctoGônes is its biggest annual fantasy, gaming and independent weird publis…

27/05/2024

By Paul StJohn MacKintosh

A few days ago, I was in Strasbourg, designated in April 2024 the UNESCO 2024 World Book Capital City (WBCC). And that’s a fitting award, because for lovers of books and the printed word, Strasbour…

20/05/2024

James O'Shea, former L.A. Times editor, has opened his mind up about bots. I feel the same, and here I give a few reasons why.

Could a reporter bot have been me in real life in the 1970s—or Jonathan Stone, the far more dashing investigative journalist in my novel The Solomon Scandals? And who would have made a better…

05/05/2024

“I’ve recently been head down over the keyboard filling in the endnotes and other citations for my upcoming historical work, The Liberation of Strasbourg. It’s my first brush in forever with academic citation, and I’m not relishing the experience. Aren’t those citation requirements a headache? Could blockchains rescue us?” By Paul StJohn Mackintosh

I’ve recently been head down over the keyboard filling in the endnotes and other citations for my upcoming historical work, The Liberation of Strasbourg. It’s my first brush in forev…

04/05/2024

By Paul St John Mackintosh

I can hardly pass a moment at home without an audiobook or an audio podcast playing. But I haven’t invested in a new Bluetooth speaker for a long time. So the Tribit XSound Go was a welcome generat…

26/04/2024

To help people explore my Washington corruption novel, I created ScandalsBot.com with a WordPress plug-in called AI Power.

The version I’m running isn’t free but is affordable. Indie authors and small publishers might find this of interest.

Yes, my bot page reminds visitors of the negatives of AI, including hallucinations and well-worn language. Still, the ScandalsBot is factual most of the time and is wonderful for calling attention to possibilities, even if a human should verify the information.

A useful discussion provoker (on issues such as ethics in media, government, business, and law)!

I don’t speak for the ScandalsBot, and it doesn’t necessarily speak for me. That’s not what the bot is about.

The Solomon Scandals, a Washington novel by David Rothman