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.
