Books
Jul. 28, 2011
Nook: So far, so good
Jun. 28, 2011
The Death of Print
The sales figures for April 2011 are in and the PW headline says it all: digital jumps, print plummets.
Tags: ebooks
Jun. 2, 2011
Orwell on Dickens
Two quotes pulled from Orwell’s classic essay on Dickens.
Tags: Charles Dickens · George Orwell
May. 9, 2011
Why are we attracted to crime stories?
What does our attraction to crime stories tell us about ourselves?
Tags: crime novels
Apr. 6, 2011
The end of the shy author?
Laura Miller wonders about what is lost in the new publishing model of author-as-promoter. (link)
Tags: bookselling · ebooks
Mar. 22, 2011
Seth Godin: Ten Bestsellers
Seth Godin’s memorable presentation at the O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference in February 2008: *10 Bestsellers: Using New Media, New Marketing, and New Thinking to Create 10 Bestselling Books.* (video)
Tags: bookselling · ebooks · Seth Godin · video
Nov. 18, 2010
Shoes
The earthy, sensuous craft of making shoes vs. the ethereal art of writing books.
Tags: Converse · featured posts · Ryusaku Hiruma · shoes · writing life
Nov. 3, 2010
No such thing as a bad review
A study uses negative book reviews to test the old saw that “all publicity is good publicity.” The result: for the most part, it is better to be trashed by the Times than ignored by it.
Tags: book reviews · bookselling · New York Times · publicity
Nov. 1, 2010
George Orwell Writes a Novel
“Don’t you write a book about this, George Orwell!” (cartoon)
Tags: cartoons · George Orwell
Oct. 17, 2010
What are books good for?
So what are books good for? My best answer is that books produce knowledge by encasing it. Books take ideas and set them down, transforming them through the limitations of space into thinking usable by others.… [T]he two cultures of the contemporary world are the culture of data and the culture of narrative. Narrative is [...]
Tags: ebooks
