Archive for the 'books' Category
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)
Art Books
April 13th, 2007Andrew Sullivan links to some really cool book art.
Round-Up of SN Book Sites
March 17th, 2007Newsweek has a quick round-up:
"You just finished John Grisham’s latest, and you can’t wait to talk about it … but your book club doesn’t meet until next Sunday. Now you don’t have to hold your thoughts. A new crop of literary social-networking sites let you compare notes with other bookworms at all hours of the [...]
More on BookSwim
March 1st, 2007Joe Wikert has an interview with George Burke, the man behind BookSwim (A Netflix type service for books):
JW: Approximately how many books will be available to choose from at launch? Will they be from all areas (e.g., business, novels, etc.) or just certain categories?
GB: Most in-print leisure reading books (fiction and non-fiction) will be available [...]
Poledancing Parties…@ Your Library?
February 24th, 2007Now this just made my day:
"Now the pole — think ballet barre turned vertical — is the new star at racier versions of Tupperware parties in well-heeled (if high-heeled) areas like this one in the northwest hills of Morris County, about 33 miles from Manhattan. Billed as “femme empowerment,” such at-home pole dancing lessons are [...]
Camel Book Drive
February 20th, 2007Some of the best book/lit information comes from litblogs (although nothing beats the NYT book review [in print please, thank you very much]). Today, The Elegant Variation, led me to The Camel Book Drive
"Though The Camel Bookmobile (HarperCollins, April 2007) is a novel, the camel-borne library actually exists. It operates in Kenya’s isolated Northeastern Province [...]
Books….In….Spaaaaaace!
February 19th, 2007Cute quote at the end of this article:
"As for why he should bring along heavy hard copies of the works in a age when nearly all things are virtually and weightlessly available, Simonyi insisted the books would be more practical, since special permission would be needed to use the computers inside the International Space [...]