This is the scene inside a warehouse in Bristol, UK. The warehouse used to be the home of Bookbarn, Amazon.UK's largest supplier of secondhand books. Now it's a biblio-wasteland.After their lease was up Bookbarn moved out leaving millions of books behind. The landlord then decided to invite the public in to take whatever they wanted. Ashley Nicholson, the director of the property, said 'We thought it was a sensible idea to give people the opportunity to come along and choose themselves a book or two and help us clear the warehouse." The thought of free books had people coming from...
Limerick for the Kindle
This little gem was left as a comment to Allison Arieff's post, Shelf Life, at the New York Times. The story profiles renowned architectural bookseller and publisher William Stout.There once was a time when books slowly dwindled,Bibliophiles everywhere felt nothing but swindled,They wanted their books,By hook or by crooks,But alas, in the end, all of them Kindled!
Preview of the Kindle 2
Here's what the much anticipated Kindle 2 looks like. The folks over at MobileRead have the exclusive first look at Amazon's new e-reader.Release date Febuary 24. Cost $359
Author 2.0
It seems like the days of an author simply writing their way to bookshelves across America are coming to end.In his essay in the New York Times, See the Web Site, Buy the Book, J. Courtney Sullivan tracks the evolution of author Web sites and the "sizable industry" that has sprung up to meet the demand.HarperStudio, the new tech-savvy publisher who "believe traditional publishing models are broken and are experimenting with new ones," recently held a Social Networking pow wow for their authors. Here is a pdf of the presentation.Here's a look at role of the author in pre-internet days...
How It Works
click image to enlargeThough it looks like a New York City subway map it is actually a visual rendering of the current trends in technology and publishing put together by the folks at the Spanish blog Soybits. If you look at where it begins in the upper left hand corner you'll see that it all starts with Jeff Bezos.Then there is this video that hit airwaves earlier this week from the the digital marketing team at Macmillan. It has received tons of viral attention and seems to be popping up everywhere in the book blogosphere. It is called "From the...