Life in the cloud can have its consequences. Remember back in 2009 when Amazon unilaterally decided to remove copies of George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm from customers Kindles due to a copyright issue. And what if we suffer a prolonged power outage? Or god forbid the Kindle becomes obsolete? How will ever be able to access our ebooks? Thanks to Jesse England and his E-Book Backup project we now have an insurance policy. Says England of the project: E-book backup is a physical, tangible, human readable copy of an electronically stored novel. The purchased contents of an e-book reader were easily photocopied...
Of Interest: The Beatles and Me, Poetry Pamphlets from New Directions, Messing with Books in Victorian Britain…
The Beatles and Me On Tour by Ivor Davis. Cockney Kid Publishing, 2014 Ivor Davis was front and center during the Beatles 1964 tour of America. Covering the tour for London's Daily Express Davis he was one a handful of journalists that had unfettered access to the Fab Four. In addition to his reporting he was also George Harrison's ghostwriter for his Daily Express column. From the hysteria to the isolation, from the Beatles meeting Bob Dylan to them meeting Elvis, Davis was right in the mix. There's plenty of anecdotes and behind the scene nuggets to keep you...
The Beat Generation in the Big Apple
Carl Solomon, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs at the Gotham Book Mart, New York City, 1977 Calling all tour guides... The latest New York-centric map from Constantine Valhouli features the haunts, hangouts and related places of interest for the Beat Generation. From the library in Ozone Park, Queens where Jack Kerouac started planning his seminal road trip to the West End bar across from Columbia University which became "a college bar for the Beat poets" and all points in between. The map highlights 123 spots of interest with most falling within the boundaries of NYC. Link to...
Reinventing the Bookshop: Four architecture and design firms “create the bookshop of their dreams”
intelligent life magazine asked 4 companies to "create the bookshop of their dreams." Each were given the same instructions: to design a general-interest bookshop, selling fiction, non-fiction and e-books, in store and online, on a typical European high-street site, with two floors of 1,000 square feet each. The budget was £100,000—modest, we knew, but independent booksellers aren’t minted and that figure was ring-fenced for the fit-out; they could assume there would be further funds for training staff or running events. The four participants were Gensler, 20.20 , Burdifilek and Coffey Architects. Here are the sketches and some of the highlights of...
The Definitive Guide to Banned Books Vol. 1
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