Archive for the 'books' Category
University libraries could sell outdated books under new bill
May 3rd, 2008Government Innovators Network: - “State statute makes selling outdated books and journals close to impossible, so Illinois university libraries decide to trash about 500,000 used books every year.”
The Twitter Review
April 3rd, 2008Megan McArdle - “I wonder if the rise of twittering as perhaps the briefest form of literature known to man could lead to a new kind of book review. Rather than have a book reviewed by a single person in 1000 words or less, what would it look like if 40 different reviews offered 25 [...]
Fahrenheit 451: More Relevant Now Than Ever
April 3rd, 2008Caleb Nico - “Fahrenheit 451 is one of the greatest pieces of American literature. Now, in 2008, I can see that America is becoming more like that world Bradbury thought of years ago…”
Will Online Book Piracy Drive Authors to Stop Writing?
April 2nd, 2008Wired Campus - “An interview with Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl With a Pearl Earring, in Monday’s Times of London suggests that digital book piracy may discourage authors from writing. Unless, that is, the publishing industry can come up with a different business model.”
Champion of reading
March 30th, 2008Charlotte Observer - “In this fast-and-flashy age of iPods and Kindles, Google and Amazon, Mark Herring is guardian of the not-so-flashy.”
Seven Deadly Words of Book Reviewing
March 27th, 2008Paper Cuts - “Like all professions book reviewing has a lingo.”
ABFFE challenges Indiana law
March 26th, 2008BookFinder.com - “Should bookstores stocking racy romance novels, the Bible (the Song of Songs read literally), or Dr. Ruth’s Sex for Dummies have to become state-registered vendors of sexually explicit materials?”
Web app turns social network members into authors
March 25th, 2008CNET - “The book’s opening line is: “Helen has just registered on Facebook.”
Books bust borders
March 23rd, 2008News Observer - “In January, when two committees appointed by the American Library Association announced the best children’s picture book (Caldecott) and longer work (Newbery), political candidates were cruising the country shaking hands and making pledges.”
Bookshelf Etiquette
March 22nd, 2008Jennifer Schuessler - “My new policy, more or less, is to get rid of most books once I’ve read them, keeping only those that I’m pretty sure I’ll want to refer to later or that have really great pictures.”
Publisher Posts Mac Books on The Pirate Bay
March 20th, 2008Publisher Posts Mac Books on The Pirate Bay - “Publishing music, movies and books on BitTorrent seems to be becoming a trend, and there’s nothing wrong with that.” (via)
Eulogy for an Independent Bookstore
March 12th, 2008From The Nation
(via)
Book Lovers Ask, What’s Seattle’s Secret?
March 9th, 2008New York Times - “TEN years ago, Nancy Pearl started a program for public libraries here that she hoped would get adults excited about literature. It was called, “If All of Seattle Read the Same Book.” Free copies of “The Sweet Hereafter,” a novel about a tragic school bus accident, were distributed to individuals and [...]
Bookshelf and Self
February 27th, 2008Scott McLemee - “It is unacceptable to display any book in a public space of your home if you have not read it.” (via)
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen to Release Coffee Table Book
February 27th, 2008US Magazine has the scoop - Reserved!
I Am Magic…
February 25th, 2008I can make books disappear.
Picture Books, Seriously
February 24th, 2008Kids Lit - “Children’s book illustrations are now being shown in museums, studied in art courses, and of course being purchased as investments.”
Robie Harris Blog Tour
February 4th, 2008ALSC - “Blog touring is a rather new form of promotion for authors and their books (at least to me) but it can offer a great way for us to learn about new books directly from their creators.”
More on Lit Blogs
February 3rd, 2008Can blogs save literature?
U of M Reaches 1 Million
February 2nd, 2008One million digitized books on the way to 7.5…
…and Google will be laughing on their way out the door, never to look back again.
Sad.
Canadian Reading Habits
February 2nd, 2008Kate’s Book Blog - “Clearly the report contains disturbing news about the state of bookselling in Canada. But it also provides encouraging statistics about Canadian reading and book buying habits.”
Interesting 1st Circuit Decision
February 2nd, 2008From On Point News, a really cool site that I’m monitoring for new content (no RSS):
“1st Circuit rejects parental rights case against school district accused of indoctrinating elementary school students with books that portray families with parents of the same gender. “There is no free exercise right to be free from any reference in public [...]
Area Eccentric Reads Entire Book
January 20th, 2008The Onion - “Sitting in a quiet downtown diner, local hospital administrator Philip Meyer looks as normal and well-adjusted as can be. Yet, there’s more to this 27-year-old than first meets the eye: Meyer has recently finished reading a book.”
Gotta love The Onion (via)
Thumbs Race as Japan’s Best Sellers Go Cellular
January 20th, 2008New York Times - “[L]ast month, the year-end best-seller tally showed that cellphone novels, republished in book form, have not only infiltrated the mainstream but have come to dominate it.”
Their House to Yours, via the Trash
January 20th, 2008New York Times - “Hundreds of men and a smaller number of women eke out a living scavenging books in Manhattan, according to Mitchell Duneier, author of “Sidewalk,” a book about the subculture of sidewalk book scavengers and vendors. Some of them sell their books on the street; others, the less entrepreneurial, or the more [...]
Revisiting works first read in your youth
January 20th, 2008An essay, by David L. Ulin.
Book Scavengers
January 19th, 2008Michael Lieberman - “How’s that for library 2.0?”
Book Glutton
January 19th, 2008About Us - “Our intent: build an experience that is simultaneously a book group, a computer, and a book.” (via)
Bookstore Befuddlement
January 13th, 2008It’s happened to the best of us. Excuse me, do you have any books on Pediafiles?
Hooked on books
January 13th, 2008Newsday - “How to turn reluctant readers into enthusiastic ones”