January 2012
4 posts
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.
yolaleah:
Brilliance Audio, owned by Amazon, has made the decision to stop allowing libraries to purchase and circulate their downloadable audiobooks. Gee, thanks...
December 2011
13 posts
“As the age of the physical book retreats, the cult of the physical book will...”
– 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.
Mary Roach in Outside magazine: Shrunken Heads... →
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... →
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?...
Three Percent: Richard Russo, Bookstores, and this... →
This is a great post by Open Letter & Three Percent’s Chad Post about Amazon’s Predatory “Price Check” “deal” and today’s NYT article by Richard Russo from the perspective of a fellow indie press guy. Thoughtful and wonderfully lengthy. I love that he’s able to stretch out and dig into a topic.
November 2011
8 posts
The Internet Weighs About as Much as a Strawberry. →
“Last week, the world was shocked—shocked!—to discover that downloading an electronic book to a device such as a Kindle actually increases the weight of the Kindle … In that spirit, how much does all the information on the entire internet weigh? The conclusion: about as much as a strawberry.”
(via Techland)
“And - just so you know, this particular group of children decided that Bear...”
– Overheard at an I Want My Hat Back story time at Bunch of Grapes Bookstore on Martha’s Vineyard.
October 2011
43 posts
“If I were making rules for journalists, I’d make them simpler. They would...”
– Lisa Simeone and NPR’s executive cowardice | Dan Gillmor | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
I'm officially over the whole SHIT SIRI SAYS... →
It was amusing for a while, but now it’s just depressing watching everyone post new screenshots of misogynistic questions asked of the poor, put-upon digital assistant onboard the iPhone 4S.
Asking where to find whores, or calling Siri a bitch, or asking where to buy pot. Yeah, I’ve seen that.
I still appreciate the carefully honed sense of humor about certain questions that...
#Friday Reads: Art of Fielding. Joe Meno's...
Both are so good, with so much delicious dialogue.
I’m reading Office Girl in ms. right now - it’s coming from @AkashicBooks next summer. Joe posted the cover the other day.
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WatchAll six members of Wilco drop by NPR to play a Tiny Desk Concert - mini amps, half a dozen guitars, Glenn Kotche’s toy drum kit (he uses a mailing envelope for one song!), between song banter. The whole thing captured with remarkable sound and great video.
Set list: Dawned On Me Whole Love Born Alone War On War
(via Wilco: Tiny Desk Concert : NPR)
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