Archive for the 'books' Category
More Book Burning
September 3rd, 2007Book Patrol - “Tom Wayne of Prospero’s Books in Kansas City chose Labor Day weekend for the second installment of his ‘I’m Going to Burn All the Books I Can’t Sell’ publicity gimmick.”
The Most requested Out of Print Books
August 29th, 2007BookFinder - “The Report tracks the most sought-after out-of-print books in America, breaking down demand for popular OOP titles in ten different genres.”
Random House Makes UnRandom Donation
August 27th, 2007Newsday - “Random House is loosening its purse strings with a $1 million donation to First Book, a nonprofit literacy organization. The gift, a multiyear commitment announced today, is the largest single philanthropic contribution ever made by the house, the world’s largest trade book publisher.”
Local LibraryThing?
August 21st, 2007theBookseller - “Countrybookshop the Peak District-based bookshop has launched an online social networking site for the book community. Booksconnect will attempt to connect readers, authors, publishers with independent bookshop festivals and book group organisers.”
Readers Going Green
August 20th, 2007Eco-Libris - “Books are everywhere, just look around: on bookshelves at home, in college students’ backpacks, in the mail from the book club or in that pile in your room right now. For some people they’re for education, for others they’re an entertaining escapade and for some, reading is really a passion. Eco-Libris is for [...]
Coverboom
August 17th, 2007Where they “judge books by their covers” (via)
Save Our Books
August 17th, 2007Chemistry World - “Three out of every four books in Europe’s libraries are printed on acidic paper that isn’t expected to last another century.”
iBooks
August 15th, 2007CNET - “Publisher Harper Collins released digital excerpts from 14 books on Wednesday that can be read from an Apple iPhone.”
AudioBooks? Sure, Why Not?
August 14th, 2007Baltimore Sun - “Life being what it is, I will take my books where I can get them and my reading time when I can - out of the dashboard of my van, on the long ride home.”
Lit Bloggers Unite
August 13th, 2007Washington Times - “Mr. Sarvas emphasizes that literary bloggers are a diverse bunch, with different tastes and interests. But what many share in common is a desire to take up books ignored by the mainstream media.” (via)
Reorganizing Bookshelves
August 13th, 2007The Guardian - “Biologists Helping Bookstores - spotted via Jason Kottke - features a crusading scientist called Ste who tries reorganising bookshop shelves to prevent pseudoscience featuring in the science categories.”
On Demand
August 12th, 2007Mashable - “CreateSpace, which is part of Amazon’s family as a self-publishing tool, has launched a new Books On Demand service.”
At Look at the Lists
August 10th, 2007ricklibrarian - “I have been mining lists of American Library Association Notable Books awards to find worthy titles for my biography project.”
Law-Lit
August 10th, 2007NYLJ - “The editor of a soon-to-be-published collection of literary musings on the world of jurisprudence touts his anthology as proof “beyond any reasonable doubt that no sphere of the human experience is as alluring and lurid, lamentable and lust-provoking as the law.”
Bush Authors
August 9th, 2007Newsday - “Laura Bush and her daughter Jenna will write a children’s book about a mischievous boy who likes to do everything but read, HarperCollins Publishers announced Thursday morning.”
Books to Villages, Libraries on Mules
August 7th, 2007Peter Brantley - “As we think about the possibilities for education enabled by Internet access, and portable computing devices such as cheap mobile phones or even laptops, we will do well to remember the avidity with which these Andean villagers treat books.”
BookVideos.tv
August 7th, 2007“BookVideos.tv offers compelling video stories that give readers insights into some of the world’s best authors. The social media video site offers the back story about the lives, personalities and the inspirations of these engaging writers. We created Bookvideos.tv to give readers the real story behind the story.” (via)
Junie B. No!
July 26th, 2007NYT: “The spunky kindergartener (first grader in more recent volumes) is prone to troublemaking, often calls people names and isn’t averse to talking back to her teachers. And though she is the narrator of the stories, she struggles with grammar. Her adverbs lack the suffix “ly”; subject and object pronouns give her problems, as do [...]
CEOs and Books
July 22nd, 2007NYT: “Michael Moritz, the venture capitalist who built a personal $1.5 billion fortune discovering the likes of Google, YouTube, Yahoo and PayPal, and taking them public, may seem preternaturally in tune with new media. But it is the imprint of old media — books by the thousands sprawling through his Bay Area house — that [...]
College Booked
July 20th, 2007Consumerist: “The cost of textbooks is rising faster than inflation and Hammond doesn’t feel right forcing his students to purchase ever more expensive books on top of their already expensive tuition and fees.” (via)
Sixty Books, Sixty Libraries
July 19th, 2007University of Wisconsin News - “[T]he Bone Folders’ Guild, a Madison-based book arts group, created 60 blank journals and distributed them to each of the 60 libraries in Wisconsin’s South Central Library System. The project drew a wide range of participants-from farmers and bankers to children and the elderly-who contributed their own unique flavor to [...]
Books and MySpace
July 18th, 2007CNET - “Old-school book publishers are still trying to figure out how best to reach audiences on the Web and build online communities for their authors.”
BookTour
July 17th, 2007BookTour - “We’re a free online service that connects authors and potential audiences of all sorts, from book groups to civic organizations, from bookstores to corporate events.” (via)
Double Bind
July 17th, 2007There are books that I enjoy and books that cause me to use expletives because they are so damned well written. Double Bind, by Chris Bohjalian was one of those books. I have read a few of his novels (Midwives, Trans-Sister radio), but this one was his best. Hands down.
I’m a sucker [...]
We Still Read
July 16th, 2007BBC: “Contrary to popular belief, Britain may not be a nation of dumbed-down MP3-toting philistines who prefer computer games to the mind-expanding delights of a good book.” (via)
Reading is FUNdamental
July 11th, 2007NYT: “In what has become near mythology about the wildly popular series by J. K. Rowling, many parents, teachers, librarians and booksellers have credited it with inspiring a generation of kids to read for pleasure in a world dominated by instant messaging and music downloads.”
No Books For You
July 10th, 2007Sun Sentinel: “Laura Lopez wants dozens of books removed from two Palm Beach County high school libraries because the contents address homosexuality, abortion, and atheism.”
Old Books….Sniff Sniff
June 25th, 2007From the NYT:
“People have a love affair with their books,”
(via)
An Illuminated Life
June 23rd, 2007Recently released biography:
An Illuminated Life: Belle da Costa Greene’s Journey from Prejudice to Privilege
“Ardizzone’s competent, complimentary biography explains the complicated, glamorous woman who transcended her lack of formal higher education and obfuscated her race to become head of the Pierpont Morgan Library and confidante of the financial mogul who founded it. Belle Green (1879–1950), the [...]
On Books
April 23rd, 2007The National Book Critics Circle wants to save book reviews. (via)