January 2011
28 posts
“All novels are really letters aimed at one person”
– Stephen King (via travors)
Stranger Than Fiction →
I love this movie. A rom-com. The storyline, the soundtrack. Writing about writing. So meta.
Welcome new followers: Check out the research... →
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books owned and leased →
ayjay:
Tim Spalding:
We used to own our books. With most ebooks we own them in name, but effectively we lease them. As Jane documents, the slide toward more and more attenuated concepts of ownership…
Like iTunes, if you can get people to pay twice for the same thing, that is an amazing business model.
“Even if planets and moons were found round Alpha Centauri, as envisaged by the...”
– Our science writers argue that the galaxy’s most recently discovered planet, “Kepler-10b”, deserves a far better name. Like “Vulcan”, for example. (via theeconomist)
pfff…YEAH.
“Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very.” Your editor will...”
– Mark Twain (via raggletaggleme)
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Ex Libris →
AKA bookplate.
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University Presses Face Watershed Moment in... →
infoneer-pulse:
University presses want to get e-books into libraries and make those books readily discoverable by scholars, but many presses lack the technical resources to pull it off easily. As recently as last fall, they didn’t have many noncommercial options if they wanted outside help.
But soon they’ll have at least four collective nonprofit or academically affiliated options to pick...
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Selling a Book by Its Cover →
Juniperbooks.com Haute Couture books
Formats don’t go away entirely they just change.
2011 Hugo nomination period is open until March... →
Apple iPad: the Most Important Product of the... →
un:
shaneguiter:
On New Year’s Day, 2001, blogs were still largely unknown to the public. RIM had yet to launch the BlackBerry, and Palm hadn’t yet announced its Treo. Blu-Ray was still several years in the future. Google hadn’t even started working on Gmail. A 3.1 megapixel camera cost $700. Almost nobody had heard of social networking.
There’s no question that technology has completely...
“[A]bove all let there be pleasure. Let there be textural delight, let there be...”
– Stephen Fry on not minding your language. From the same essay: “In life you have to explain wine. You have to explain cheese. You have to explain love. You can’t, but you have to try, or if not try you have, surely, to be aware of the astonishing fact of them.” (via bobulate)