January 2010
20 posts
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“Sooner or later people believe writers rather than the government.”
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez, via @parisreview. (via langer) (via notational)
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“It is said of Muad’Dib that once when he saw a weed trying to grow between two...”
– The Commentaries (via rhea137)
Offline Book "Lending" Costs U.S. Publishers... →
travors:
azspot:
Hot on the heels of the story in Publisher’s Weekly that “publishers could be losing out on as much $3 billion to online book piracy” comes a sudden realization of a much larger threat to the viability of the book industry. Apparently, over 2 billion books were “loaned” last year by a cabal of organizations found in nearly every American city and town. Using the same advanced...
“A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much...”
– The Economist (via christmasgorilla) (via ninakix)
“Write one leaf about being naked.”
– To be truly nude, is not exposure of skin, genitals, or the completeness of ones body. Nudity is to be completely vulnerable. When I think I am the least vulnerable is when I am the most naked.
I have hidden behind my clothes, possesions, and position. It is my fear that is the nudity.
In the old...
“I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into...”
– Woody Allen (via thechocolatebrigade) (via museumstudies)
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“We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One...”
– John Steinbeck (via delgrosso) (via foodcomapanda)
“I find writing to be both pleasure and pain, madness and order, clarity and...”
– me
“E-books should be more than digital copies of a printed page… But the e-readers...”
– Inventor and technology futurist Ray Kurzweil, discussing his interactive book software Bilo (via go)
Hmm. We’re still not sold; until this brings the full functionality of a Website, including the ability to fully share text/photos, this seems to be an expensive toy that isn’t better than print or...
“More than 98% of all works in copyright are “orphaned” — still in copyright, but...”
– Cory Doctorow at boingboing
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Jack Kerouac's literary estate in limbo →
restartist:themattsmith:
Wow.
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this is humiliating to my non-future: make-believe: writing career/after i die..
What if... William Shakespeare wrote The Big... →
U.S. writers’ groups team up to protest Google... →
infoneernet:
The ramifications of the amended settlement for any one author and any one book are exceptionally complex. We’ve talked to our members, authors like yourself. The ones who got the notice found it incomprehensible and just shook their heads in confusion. Go to the settlement website’s poorly implemented database and see for yourself how tricky this is – has your book been scanned?...
How Will Writers Autograph Ebooks? →
kiyoshimartinez:
Great question! I wouldn’t give up the opportunity to have my book signed and personalized by authors I love to read.
with a short video clip
“All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via onhershelf) (via libraryland) (via sharlala)