Publishing Perspectives is making a big deal out of a little promotion currently being by Condor Airlines: German airline Condor and Vorsicht! Buch, a marketing initiative of the German book...Continue reading
Category: Book Culture
New Harry Potter Script Book is the Most Pre-Ordered of 2016 – Will It Also be the Most Disappointing?
As I am sure you know, the latest installment in the Harry Potter saga is now one of the most popular books of the year. The new broke first last...Continue reading
A Solution for Book Hoarders, and Overflowing Libraries
Ebook lovers never have to worry about the size of their libraries, but Christina Spencer isn’t so lucky. She writes in the Ottawa Citizen that she needs a self-help books...Continue reading
Guest Post: Do Students Lose Depth in Digital Reading?
Do students learn as much when they read digitally as they do in print? For both parents and teachers, knowing whether computer-based media are improving or compromising education is a...Continue reading
The Perils of Taking Too Many Books on Your Holiday Trip, and Other 1% Problems
The Spectator has a solution for anyone who is haunted by the prospect of having too much to read while vacationing on the French Riviera: Holidays are a welcome chance...Continue reading
Guest Post: What Happens When You Try to Read Moby Dick on Your Smartphone?
These days, when most of us think of a “book,” we have in mind something around nine inches by six inches, with mass market paperbacks shaving off an inch or...Continue reading
What’s the Oddest Thing You’ve Found in a Little Free Library?
Little Free Libraries are supposed to be small structures where members of a community can leave or take a book with no fee or paperwork. But sometimes it doesn’t work...Continue reading
Virginia Authors Unite to Sell Books and Support a Cancer Charity
Should you happen to be near Manassas, Virginia next week, there’s a book sale you might be interested in. Local bookseller McKay Used Books will be hosting a sale on Saturday,...Continue reading
Has Agency eBook Price Controls Changed Your Reading Habits? (It Did For Me)
Earlier today Felix left a comment on my post about the 2016 Kindle’s lack of accessibility features. He remarked on how I seemed to use the same author’s series in...Continue reading
No, You Can’t Predict a Best-Seller by Analyzing a Book’s Contents
The Independent has a report on the latest group of outsiders who think they are going to disrupt the book publishing industry. The last one was a startup which wanted...Continue reading
PSA: Crossroad Reviews Called Out for Selling Arcs as a Business
Authors and publishers know that they often have to give away ARCs (advanced reader copies) of their books to bloggers, reviewers, and librarians in order to build the early buzz. They...Continue reading
Why Hollywood is Ignoring Octavia Butler (and Other) SF Writers, Redux
I wanted to address one of the stories in this morning’s link post. Writing for Fusion, Shawn Taylor tries to argue that Hollywood (and the tv studios) is taking special care to ignore...Continue reading
Typography Aficionados Still Not Happy With Kindle Fonts
Typography snobs have never been happy with ebooks. Even though ebooks in their modern incarnation are less than two decades old, the snobs still object to the fact that the current ebook...Continue reading
Reports of the End of the Full Stop Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Late last week the NY Times foretold the death of the lowly period, but now it appears that the paper was going for hype over substance. David Crystal, the academic...Continue reading
On the True Costs of Bargain Books, Or Guilting Readers Because Authors Signed Bad Contracts
James Mayhew has taken up the cause of trying to guilt, harangue, or otherwise convince readers to overpay for books from legacy publishers. About a month ago (I just now found...Continue reading