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Tidbits from the LA Times Piece "A dismal year for books?"
Scott Timberg has the customary 'look back at 2007 piece in the Los Angeles Times. The tag line is "Publishing has become a high-stakes game amid store closings, declines in sales, profits, book review sections -- even literacy.""The delivery of the content of a book in different forms and formats is making people nervous...So we're trying to publish in a lot of different formats because we don't know where the readers are going to be. A lot of us in the publishing industry started out when we still used carbon paper and manual typewriters.""The uncertainty around technological change is responsible...
Radiohead: Band of the Year
I'm not sure I've ever heard one of their songs but in my world these guys are the band of the year. They just released their latest album without the help of a record company and all they asked was for their fans to pay what they want for it, no strings attached. Start at free and go from there. Here are the early results: How this applies to the book world? Clearly the publishing industry has not experienced the upheaval taking place in the music industry but it's coming. Remember we have been printing books alot longer than we...
Shakeup at Abebooks
It is never a minor event when the COO of a company departs so no matter how Abe tries to minimize the transition this is a significant event
The City of Dreaming Books
Walter Moers. The City of Dreaming Books. Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Press, 2007. First American Edition. 456 pp. Maroon spine over yellow boards. Illustrated throughout by the author.Walter a biblio-fantasy of the highest order.