Category: publishing

“The site has been reconstructed from an archive hosted on the W3C site, so what you’re seeing is a 1992 copy of the first website. Sadly this is, thus far, the earliest copy anyone can find, though the team at CERN is hoping to turn up an older copy.”

“Digital spending rose by 66% to £411m. But it does not appear to have led to a marked decline for print, with physical book sales down by just 1% at £2.9bn.”

Jury chairman Geordie Williamson explains why.

“With several mythological tales getting a modern makeover and imaginative retellings crowding bookshelves, Dadwal and millions of other urban, educated Indians who prefer to read in English have more choices than ever before.”

“The last decade has been challenging for type designers. The print world is shrinking, but technical limitations prevented web designers from fully exercising their typographic skills. Now, however, the growing popularity of the “@font-face” tag that became formalized in the CSS3 specifications is reinvigorating typography on the web by allowing a diverse range of unique but high-quality fonts to be called onto a page from an external foundry.”

“London’s Lambeth Palace, home to the Archbishop of Canterbury, also has a leading historic book collection. The palace’s library was the scene of a major crime that stayed undiscovered for decades. A sealed letter that arrived at one of Britain’s most historic libraries in February 2011 was to leave its staff stunned.”

“Libraries across the country are redefining themselves as dynamic and multi-functional cultural centres. While they continue to provide a haven for quiet reading and reflection in the noise of a big city, by night they are discovering a second vocation as centres of community interaction and broader cultural exploration.”

“She points to the excesses of Western individualism — ‘It has promoted decontextualization and isolation; it has promoted narcissism. It has promoted arrogance. … ‘ — as she strives to vindicate the emotional wholeness and belonging available only within the framework of Eastern interdependence.”

“The network is so widespread, who really knows what’s going on? A few lines of code in a near-boundless database, a stack of books in a vast warehouse, a couple of employees in a global corporation; all of these are linked by unaccountable systems.”

“I loved this job, but I always felt five years would be a kind of marker, and it was.”