February 2012
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“Unlike wax tablets, books didn’t break or melt, and unlike scrolls, they could...”
– Robert Moor, “Bones of the Book”
From papyrus to paper to print to i-Pads! The book! Jonathan Frazen would’ve been clutching his scrolls.
(via thelifeguardlibrarian)
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Athena's Library, The Quirky Pillar Of Providence... →
“The Ath is always looking for relevance: new ideas, new faces and new activities. ‘There are people like me who are not that old-guard, cultural elite of Providence,’ says Kipp Bradford, a lecturer and design engineer at Brown. Bradford is curating three salons at the Ath this spring, linked to manufacturing and the history of Providence.
‘Fundamentally, the Athenaeum is...
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How Bots Seized Control of My Pricing Strategy →
“Last year I published my children’s book about computer science, Lauren Ipsum. I set a price of $14.95 for the paperback edition and sales have been pretty good. Then last week I noticed a marketplace bot offering to sell it for $55.63. “Silly bots”, I thought to myself, “must be a bug”. After all, it’s print-on-demand, so where would you get a new copy to sell?
Then it...
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“The eBook isn’t about winning or losing. It’s about an ‘exploration,’ and...”
– Gaming developer turned children’s book illustrator Jon Skuse on the future of the picturebook as a storytelling medium. (via curiositycounts)
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Maurice Sendak's Long History of Scaring Kids (and... →
What does it mean when adults and children disagree? Why are kids drawn to books that frighten or perplex their parents? And to what degree can very young people be canny, sophisticated readers—able discern good books from bad, even as their grown-ups howl in protest?
Sendak has ventured some explanations. In 1964, when the American Library Association awarded Wild Things the ...
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Enhanced e-books: Truly moving literature | The... →
“The labels attached to these hybrids reveal the tension at their heart. They’re not exactly books, but ‘amplified,’ ‘enriched’—even ‘interactive narrative’ experiences, as in the case of the children’s tale ‘The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore’. With literature, especially, many readers remain rightly sceptical of narrative...
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“And before he can tell her to tell Widget goodbye for him if need be, she leans...”
– The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (via kindlekwickstart)
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Reading the future: Digital books and what's to... →
vikingpenguinbooks:
Far from killing off the physical page, the rise of ebooks has enhanced our understanding of the written word and the people around it, says Gaby Wood
… things are settling to a point where the physical and the digital have a much more co-operative relationship. For instance, it’s a commonplace that people no longer print their family snaps because everything is taken on...
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“Then the music takes us, the music rolls away the years, and we dance.”
– Stephen King, 11.22.63 (thank you, jonscofer)
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Woman pleads guilty to stealing 2,000 library... →
A San Diego County woman has pleaded guilty to stealing about 2,000 library books and DVDs to resell on the Amazon website.
Prosecutors say Nater stole materials from libraries in Carlsbad, Oceanside and San Diego. An investigation was launched last year after staff at a Carlsbad library noticed a significant book loss.
Something similar happened at our library, though obviously nowhere...
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Bulk of man’s remarkable childhood comic book... →
“Billy Wright plunked down dime after dime for comic books while growing up in the late 1930s and early 1940s, caring for the collection he started around the age of 9 until his death more than half a century later. On Wednesday, most of that collection sold for a whopping $3.5 million.
Wright’s 345 comics, nearly all of which were published from 1936 through 1941, included many of the...
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Walden Media makes book on 'Rex Libris' →
“Walden Media is moving ahead on development of ‘Rex Libris,’ tapping Ben Zazove to adapt the humorous sci-fi graphic novel.
Walden acquired feature rights to ‘Rex’ last year, which follows the zombie-slaying adventures of librarian Rex Libris as he protects the books of the Middleton Public Library and guards the world’s literary treasures from a host of...
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“It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.”
– Banana Yoshimoto (via loveyourchaos)
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Mayor Bloomberg announces new job center at... →
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