The headline reads: Outfoxing the digital revolution.The story in The Telegraph profiles Slightly Foxed, a second-hand bookshop, publisher of a popular beautifully produced reader's quarterly and publishers of Slightly Foxed Editions."Slightly Foxed have stepped aside from the ebook stampede to publish beautifully bound hardbacks that recall a bygone age – and sell like hot cakes," and too boot they only publish memoirs that are out of print but not out of copyright, and all include new prefaces that are reproduced in the quarterly magazine.Each clothbound pocket hardback includes colored endpapers, headband, tailband and a silk ribbon marker. Each is published...
Trouble in Carver Country
cover of the Arcade editionTess Gallagher, the widow of short story master Raymond Carver, is suing Skyhorse Publishing over the book Carver Country: The World of Raymond Carver. The copyright suit alleges that the book contains unauthorized use of excerpts and photos. The book, originally published by Charles Scribner's Sons in hardback in 1990, was released in a a paperback edition by Arcade in 1994 . Skyhorse Publishing acquired Arcade last year. cover of the Scribner's editionMore at Publisher's Weekly including mention that according to Bookscan, the book has sold only 26 copies lifetime. Is that possible?
Lifecycle of a Book
A worthy project from Publishing Trendsetter featuring young book professionals, in their own words, on the state of the publishing trade.view larger pdf here
Composition No.1: The First Book in a Box, Redux
In the 1962 Marc Saporta published Composition No. 1. It was the first published book that came in a box. Of course, there had been books published in slipcases or that were laid in boxes for many years prior to the release of Composition No. 1 but there hadn't been one that consisted of single sheets laid into a box where "each page has a self-contained narrative, leaving it to the reader to decide the order they read the book, and how much or how little of the book they want to read before they begin again."There were no page...
The Furry Side of Margaret Wise Brown
In 1947 Margaret Wise Brown published Good Night Moon. The book would redefine the bedtime story and find a place on the bookshelves of millions of infants and kids around the world. By 1990 over 4 million copies had been sold. It has been lauded as one of the better illustrated and designed books of its time.The year before Harper & Brothers published her book Little Fur Family, a tale of a little fur child's day in the woods.There was a little Fur FamilyWarm as toastSmaller than mostIn little fur coatsAnd they lived in a warmWooden tree. Unlike the well...