With less than 3 hours left until the Rapture begins this book moves up the To Be Read (TBR) list to a Must Read Now!Harvey Gross's Plans for an Orderly Apocalypse and other poems. Published by the University of Michigan Press, 1968
Eat Touch Love: A book of edible body art
James Beard award-winning chef Tiberio Simone latest creation takes him outside the kitchen and into the studio. His new book La Figa: Visions of Food and Form, the culmination of a a five year collaboration with photographer Matt Freedman, is an exploration of "natural beauty and fresh flavors."Using the human body as his canvas, and natural fresh ingredients as both his paint and his adhesives, Simone has developed a new art of food and form. The synergy of his ephemeral artwork with Freedman’s photography is magical – producing a series of breathtaking images that will stir your soul, pique your...
Oprah the Book Fairy: The Astounding Success of the Oprah Book Club
You can bet publisher's are going to miss Oprah as much as her viewers when her long-running show wraps up next week. Nielsen has just released an accounting of the impact of Oprah's Book Club on the sales of the books chosen. In the last ten years she has sold over 22 million copies of books bearing her Book Club branding.Her full impact on book sales is hard to quantify but there are some amazing concrete numbers regarding how many books bearing the Oprah Book Club selection imprint have sold. For example, the Oprah trade paperback edition of A Million...
The "Non-Traditional" Book Takes Center Stage
Today Amazon alerted the world that for the first time the sale of Kindle books has surpassed the sale of all printed books. In less than four years the electronic newcomer has taken a strong hold. The rise in e-books has "resulted in the fastest year-over-year growth rate for Amazon's U.S. books business" in over 10 years and even caught CEO Jeff Bezos by surprise who said "We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never imagined it would happen this quickly." The announcement comes right on the heels of R. R. Bowker's release of their annual report...
Book Art
text based art has been The visual leaning publisher out of Berlin has just published a compilation of book works by artists The University of Chicago BookworkBrian Dettmer on CBS Evening News