This month Of Interest celebrates National Poetry Month by featuring select holdings from particular independent booksellers and publishers that provide a healthy offering of poetry. First up, we pair a couple of Seattle's finest - the bookshop closest to my heart and my alma mater, Wessel & Lieberman, and one of the leading publishers of poetry, Wave Books. Enjoy! Paul Celan. Wolf's Bean / Wolfsbohne. Translated by Michael Hamburger. New York: Delos Press / William Drenttel, 1997. One of fifty numbered copies signed by the translator. $100. Philip Levine. What Work Is. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. Winner of the National Book Award. $45.00 Ezra Pound, Personae: The Collected...
A stone barn is now the library at Cumbria University
Built in 1929 this stone barn used to house the student union at University of Cumbria's Ambleside Campus. Now with the help of John McAslan + Partners the stone barn has been transformed into the campus library. "Informed by the campus's setting in a National Park, the architects endeavored to minimize alterations to the existing barn's stone exterior and added an extension with a pitched roof and large windows overlooking a new courtyard." And it looks like they did a real nice job. ...
AudioEngine: An audiobook platform that is not from Amazon
Findaway World, "a leading provider of technology for the delivery of digital audiobook and eBook content" has just launched AudioEngine - a platform that allows audiobook integration for online sellers. I am hoping the technology trickles down to independent bookstores and small publishers for it would be a boon to be able to offer the audio option to their users. Here's the full Press Release: Findaway World Unveils AudioEngine Leader in digital audiobook delivery launches new platform to enable integration of audiobooks into partner products and applications SOLON, OH (March 31, 2014) — As consumer adoption of audiobooks reaches an all-time...
The Future For Public Libraries: Specialized Features Not Starbucks
My head is still spinning from Panos Mourdoukoutas' post at Forbes last week suggesting that there should be a Starbucks in every local library. Granted it appeared in Forbes and they slant corporate but it might just be the most near-sighted, wackiest story I have read in some time. Of course he starts out proclaiming his love for his local library but before it's over he says "Simply put, Starbucks and local libraries supplement each other nicely—they are both “third places” with different rules of conduct, catering to different community segments. That’s a good reason to have a Starbucks store in...
Keeping It Real: Top Reasons for Choosing Print over Digital
Results of a poll conducted recently by Fatbrain, a UK-based used book marketplace via Stephens Lighthouse via The Digital Reader