The New Look Three Percent
As you probably noticed, we underwent a pretty significant redesign over the weekend. E.J. could explain this a lot better than I can, but basically, over the past two years, we’ve come to use the site is a slightly different way than initially conceived. When launched, we had no idea Three Percent would come to host ...
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Mr Dick or the Tenth Book
Jean-Pierre Ohl has written a novel that is at once a curious and adept mix of homage to Charles Dickens, send-up of literary scholarship, and mystery. Generally, I’m leery of books based on literary figures or borrowing heavily from a previous book to bolster a premise, but Mr. Ohl, a bookseller from Bordeaux, France, ...
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Five-Figure Advance for Book of Tweets
This is the way the publishing world ends This is the way the publishing world ends This is the way the publishing world ends Not with a bang but a ...
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Douglas Rushkoff Tells It Like It Is
Over at Galley Cat Jason Boog posted a two-minute video with Douglas Rushkoff (whose new book Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back is at the very top of my galley reading stack) about media conglomerates. Not necessarily anything that hasn’t been said before, but I love the line ...
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Harvard Book Store
Every month Three Percent features an independent bookstore. For the entire month each book we link to will go to that bookstore’s online ...
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Why is there no Independent Press Editors' Buzz Panel at BEA?
I’m sure all the participants in the regular Editors’ Buzz panel and YA version have interesting things to say, but how many of these books really need the buzz? I don’t know, maybe it’s one of those days, but I feel like this is probably a pay-to-play set-up and that it would be cool if BEA also ...
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