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Too much book for a Kindle?
I’ve noticed that my own Kindle use has changed.
Life is Elsewhere
As we worry whether the big houses will survive, season by season, what are we losing sight of?
The Format Formerly Known as Print
“A book is just a format.” Actually, I think the assertion was originally made on the chat screen. And I guess that’s where we are in publishing now. I get that.
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If readers begin again to browse
Killing the practice of browsing in bookstores might have a long-term cost to the dominant industry.
Getting nearer the real questions
I’ve already found at least volume two of Memoirs of the Sansons that way, though I can’t say I’ve read more than a single chapter in the book. Which is, precisely, my point—I sampled it and moved on. Who would have thought that guillotining could be a family business?
Branding the editors
Certainly, readers acknowledging editors would require significant evolution beyond the form that our branch of the industry has taken over the past decade or so.
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book-bearing urges
I have had, I’m afraid, a rather profligate book-buying November. Okay maybe not profligate, but certainly indulgent.
The death of print and a home out in the wind
If the irresistible pressure of the internet is outward to the world, will the online versions of those publications be able to maintain their emphasis, not only on local news and local socio-political specificities, but on local flavor?
What the Litblog Co-op engendered
Litbloggers should eventually move on to other endeavors, become not only conversationalists, but producers of literature. . . . It takes time to murder and create.
The Beat of a Funky Drummer
. . . over the course of a year of Tuesdays with Freddie, I think I’ve had my say. And so, for now, I finish here.