Still one of the greatest “stealth” SF novels I’ve ever read, and one of the best book group reads EVER.
The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russel (M, 30s, thick brown beard, Mulholland Books tote, green rubber boots, G train) http://bit.ly/ykvB22
Another reason to stop supporting Amazon.
Between this and the nasty pre-Xmas “comparison shopping” boondoggle, and their current pressuring publishers for more co-op and better terms, it’s almost as though Amazon is starting to act like a monopoly! Huh.
Brilliance Audio, owned by Amazon, has made the decision to stop allowing libraries to purchase and circulate their downloadable audiobooks. Gee, thanks Amazon!
(via unabridgedbookstore)
As the age of the physical book retreats, the cult of the physical book will advance. E books are much like canned food in the 1950s, new, convenient – and excitingly so. But as with food, taste and desire changes. There will be a point when how literature is produced and distributed and consumed becomes much more important to a great many people than simple convenience.
-Trevor Butterworth, writing in Forbes about Shakespeare & Company and the rise of the “cult of the physical book”. A welcome glimpse at the long perspective of book reading.(Source: forbes.com)
From today’s holiday Inbox.
I’m afraid to even click through for fear of it ruining my already-fragile holiday mood! (But if you’re brave, here’s the link.)
Thanks, Pandora!
Mary Roach in Outside magazine: Shrunken Heads from the Amazon & Ecuador
This one’s for all my fellow @mary_roach fans who’ve been wondering what she’s been up to lately.
Here's one way to think about Amazon & their tough tactics with publishers. Re: Is Amazon Pushing Publishers to Brink On Terms, Co-op?
Isn’t there a Grimm’s folk tale about a village where a family gets a new pet and, even though it eats up some of the other littler pets in the village, everyone still loves it because it’s just so darned good at being the best and biggest pet in the village and everyone loves to spend time with that pet? But then the village children start going missing?
There isn’t? Because that’s what I keep thinking about.
Coming this spring from @Candlewick, STEP GENTLY OUT gets a heck of a warm review from Kirkus. Just read it myself and can’t wait to sell it to my booksellers this winter. (via Step Gently Out - A nature picture book by Rick Lieder & Helen Frost)
Looks like I’m having bread and jam for lunch today, in honor of Russell Hoban, creator of Frances. (via Russell Hoban, cult author, dies aged 86 | Books | guardian.co.uk)
Project Utopia: you can now possess your very own James Bond-villain-style floating fortress.
(Watch out, Blofeld! SPECTRE who?)
This bit of retro-futuristic whimsy discovered via tor.com.
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