But Will the Posts Be Graded?
Entertainment Weekly just started a book blog entitled Shelf Life. And thank the gods, so far there’s only one post on Twilight. ...
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Alane Salierno Mason on Big Think
Alane Salierno Mason, the founder of Words Without Borders, got interviewed at Big Think about literature in translation: They have several other videos with her as well: on publishers (as they say, “A few stoic houses are carrying the torch for literature in translation.”), on the founding of Words Without ...
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This Should Be a Facebook/iPhone App
It would be cool to visually share one’s own recommendations of world literature like Richard Whitehead does in The National. His recommendations are interesting, but it’s too bad he doesn’t include more books from more places . . ...
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B&N to Amazon: It Is So On
Yesterday afternoon, Barnes & Noble sent a strong message to Amazon that it’s not about to give up the ghost, no matter how many Kindle accessory ads show up in the New York subway. As reported at Digital Daily, B&N has launched a 700,000 title ebook store (there are only 300,000 titles available for the Kindle, ...
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Where Have I Been These Past Few Months
That I didn’t realize New Directions has a blog. Not terribly active, but still, today’s post about Borges’s history with ND is pretty interesting. To provide some context for this quote: earlier in the summer ND held a contest to see if anyone could identify the first publication of Borges by ND. Answer: ...
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E-Book Prices and the Possibility of Piracy
I’ve written in the past about the $9.99 ebook and my belief that supply and demand is the most important factor in arriving at this price point. Over in Slate, Jack Schafer argues that a side-effect of publishers trying to increase ebook prices (because they’re afraid that a cheap ebook will cannibalize the ...
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The Book of the Future
Over the weekend Bob Stein at the Institute for the Future of the Book blogged about the video below, calling it “the most exciting vision of the book of the future since Apple’s Knowledge Navigator in 1987,” and point out that “interestingly, the film also includes an elegant solution to the question ...
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