At least 200 people across the country who bought "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" over the weekend received copies that "have printing errors that include missing pages." 30pp. to be exact in one copy.The Seattle PI reports at least three of the QFC supermarkets in the Puget Soundreported trouble with Harry. "Printing and distributing 12 million copies of a book is a Herculean task, and it is not surprising at all that some would have printing errors," Scholastic said in a statement Monday morning.If you have one of these copies do not return it or exchange it just buy...
Eco-Libris: A Green Light in a Dark Sky
An estimated 20 million trees are cut down every year to provide books to the U.S. marketplace. Luckily, 65 percent of the 16,700 tons of paper used in the mammoth first U.S. printing of the Harry Potter finale was printed on recycled paper containing at least 30 percent post-consumer waste fiber. If it wasn't I suspect the amount of trees lost this year would be much higher.As the world continues to tilt green these numbers will no longer be acceptable. In an effort to raise awareness and replace the fallen trees Eco-Libris is asking readers to "plant a tree for...
Review- DarkNet: Hollywood’s War Against the Digital Generation
Book Patrol is pleased to publish this review written by fellow bookseller Lynn Wienck of The Chisholm Trail BookstoreDarkNet: Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generation by J. D. Lasica is an analysis of the blur in copyright laws as they pertain to media and the intrusion and influence of World Wide Web. The author's focus is principally on film; however, he leaps freely from movies to books and music and back again. Musicians, film makers, writers use a mix of many works, most of which are subject to copyright laws. The discussion covers what is black, white, gray, what is...
Books To Be Desired: Penelope Umbrico’s Private Residence
How many unsolicited home improvement magazines arrive in your mailbox?I would guess these companies have figured out how many one home should receive to maintain the cultural desire needed for them to succeed; just enough to keep you thinking that your lacking something or in need of something.In Private Residence Umbirico re-photographs selected details of the images contained in these magazines to explore the "fictional narratives found in the images of idealized rooms," she is interested in "how corporations construct publicly accessible “private” spaces in media - and how this works to produce desire, and the illusion of control, agency...
The Libraries of Power
"Personal libraries have always been a biopsy of power" says Harriet Rubin in her New York Times piece C.E.O. Libraries Reveal Keys to Success.Some article highlights:-Michael Moritz, a venture capitalist extraordinaire, whose wife calls him "the Imelda Marcos of books."-Nike's Phil Knight's mysterious library which exists in "a room behind his formal office" and one that few people have access to.-Apple's Steve Jobs fancied William Blake.-Dee Hock, the man who founded Visa, has a 2000 square foot library in his home and who has "on his library table for daily consulting, Omar Khayyam’s Rubáiyát the Persian poem that warns of...