"a tremendous amount of printed material disappears from the public sphere of information when it exits the library.""The Reanimation Library is a small, independent library based in Brooklyn. It is a collection of books that have fallen out of mainstream circulation. Outdated and discarded, they have been culled from thrift stores, stoop sales, and throw-away piles across the country and given new life as resource material for artists, writers, and other cultural archeologists."reanimation library"The Reanimation Library acts as a laboratory for investigating how the representation of analog information can be integrated into a digital environment. We understand that to a...
The Bookselling Dilemma of the Modern Age
This is the cover of the current issue of The New Yorker. It's called “Read-Handed” and was done by Adrian Tomine.He is about to open the bookshop, she is about to receive the book she ordered on Amazon. Who feels worse?It is a spectacular graphic representation of the independent struggle; the struggle that both the independent business owner and the independent-minded consumer face in todays book marketplace.To get a get a better view of the image, and to see Tomine's other book-themed illustrations click here ("Read-Handed" is the 5th image on the first row).
Biblio.com to Offer Bookhound Software for Free
UPDATE : Luke Lozier, co-founder of Bibliopolis, has alerted me that Bookhound is now available for free to ALL booksellers not just Biblio.com members.**********************************************************************AbeBooks.com has Home Base, Alibris has its reincarnation of Bookmate and now Biblio.com has Bookhound.Biblio.com will begin offering the Bookhound inventory management tool for free to its sellers. The Mac version will be released first with the PC version to follow in July. Bookhound, a product of Bibliopolis, has been around for over 10 years and is currently used by many leading bookshops and booksellers both here in the U.S. and around the world.From the press release:"BookHound...
Why won’t phone books die?
Paul Collins recently asked this question for Slate.com:Ask anyone under 30 about phone books, though, and you might as well inquire about Victrola needles. The Yellow Pages Association claims that even young households use them when the occasion—a wedding, for instance—demands reliable listings. But printed phone books are a maturing industry, with only about six in 10 businesses and individuals still regularly relying on them. Yet even as directories hemorrhage content to the Web and to unlisted cell numbers, enough oldsters—those, say, who still recall physically dialing numbers in a rotary motion—continue using them enough to keep profits rolling in....
Gonzo
Great trailer for the upcoming documentary on Hunter S. Thompson:From Oscar-wining director Alex Gibney and producer Graydon Carter comes a probing look into the uncanny life of national treasure and gonzo journalism inventor Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. A fast moving, wildly entertaining documentary with an iconic soundtrack, the film addresses the major touchstones in Thompson’s life-his intense and ill fated relationship with the Hell’s Angels, his near-successful bid for the office of sheriff in Aspen in 1970, the notorious story behind the landmark Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, his deep involvement in Senator George McGovern’s 1972 presidential campaign, and...