December 2010
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The bookworm's perfect Christmas gift: Sarah...
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Sure, you could turn to self-help celebrities like Marianne Williamson or Joel Osteen for advice on how to live. But Sarah Bakewell, an author and part-time cataloger of rare books at the National Trust in London, decided to reach much further back than the best-seller list to the 16th-century nobleman, wine grower and essayist Michel Eyquem de Montaigne. ...
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“The future of book marketing is increasingly...
Amplify’d from mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com“The future of book marketing is increasingly going to be about curating books for readers,” Ms. Messitte said. “As publishers, we’re letting readers know about the books that are worth reading.”This year, the book publishing industry has its own version of Black Friday or Cyber Monday. It’s called Christmas Day.On that day, hundreds of thousands of...
Too Many Books In The Kitchen: Rabelais Blog, Day... →
The appalling pleasures of Gargantua and Pantagruel!
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The filth is still in full effect—see: young Gargantua’s quest to find the very best thing with which to wipe one’s ass (he settles on a live goose)—but we’re also into the famous digressions.
My favourite part so far is the chapter consisting of almost nothing but a list of 200 or so card games…
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No reason for alarm: ereaders report on what you...
Big brother is reading along with you! How nice! But what if he doesn’t like your taste in books?Amplify’d from mhpbooks.comYikes, kids! It’s even worse than this paranoid, conspiracy-theory believing lefty New York liberal thought! NPR reports that the e-reader’s ability to download a book for anywhere, also works the other way. It can report back to Amazon or Apple or whoever sold the...
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Catnip for Bibliophiles: Taking Stock of Rare Book...
Amplify’d from www.guardian.co.ukI issued my first catalogue as a rare book dealer in 1982, while still lecturing in English at the University of Warwick, from which I resigned a couple of years later in order to deal full-time. By contemporary standards it was pretty fancy: photos of the best items, glossy paper, decent typesetting. I was a bit taken aback when my printer described it as...
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Independent bookstores see opportunities in the...
Amplify’d from www.npr.orgThere was a time, not so long ago, when chain bookstores had a pretty bad reputation. Barnes & Noble and Borders were seen as predators eager to destroy local booksellers — and neighborhood bookstores were weathering threats from all sides. Megastores like Costco started selling bestsellers and encroaching on local shops. Then came a little company called Amazon, and...
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Social Book Reading Sites On The Rise As eBooks...
I wish Shelfari would hook up with Facebook connect!Amplify’d from www.socialtimes.comWith the historical addition of the bestselling eBooks category on the prestigious New York times bestsellers list and this weeks launch of Google eBooks, there’s been a lot of buzz on the internet as this relatively new platform for book-reading hits the mainstream. This years explosion of tablet devices and...
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10 Best Books of 2010 picked by New York Times...
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FREEDOM By Jonathan Franzen. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $28.
The author of “The Corrections” is back, not quite a decade later, with an even richer and deeper work — a vividly realized narrative set during the Bush years, when the creedal legacy of “personal liberties” assumed new and sometimes ominous proportions. Franzen captures this through the...
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Will Web stores be the lifesaver publishers have...
Don’t count on it.Amplify’d from thenextweb.com Google’s Chrome Web Store is here. We covered its launch this week, detailing Google’s new marketplace for Web-based “apps.”
The apps, which are currently free, are essentially just bookmarks to existing websites. But that wil all soon change as the keyword here is “store.” As cool as Google’s Chrome OS is, there’s no way publishers are...
The Naked Book: #WhyIRead →
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[UPDATE 2: #WhyIRead on the LATimes book blog, and on the BookPage blog]
[UPDATE: #WhyIRead is trending on Twitter, and here’s a summary from Galleycat. And news of bigger developments forthcoming next week.]
In the age of mass entertainment, books don’t seem very special. Even in their…
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Europeans are subsidizing translations to break...
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The runaway success of Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium” trilogy suggests that when it comes to contemporary literature in translation, Americans are at least willing to read Scandinavian detective fiction. But for work from other regions, in other genres, winning the interest of big publishing houses and readers in the United States remains a steep uphill...
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E-reader as solution to book storage crisis....
But I still love the feel of a real book! No e-reader can replace that.Amplify’d from www.themorningnews.org
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I had resisted. Partly for the obvious reason: I love books. I remember how it felt when I found copies of Derek Jarman’s Dancing Ledge and David Wojnarowicz’s Memories That Smell Like Gasoline and Close to the Knives on Dustin’s shelves in the first days of our courtship. We...
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Interest in Bruno Schulz continues to grow. #books
Great overview from the Guardian.Amplify’d from www.guardian.co.ukThe Polish Jewish writer Bruno Schulz described Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (1937), the second of his two surviving collections of stories, as “eliciting the history of a certain family, a certain house in a provincial city – not from documents, events, a study of character or people’s destinies – but by...