“Books that traveled around the world via interlibrary loan in the 20th century paper era are safeguarded locally in the Internet age. Indeed, it is the sheer ease with which electronic publications can be sent around the world that is now resulting in their being locked up behind digital bars. The book doesn’t go to the reader, the reader comes to the book — just like in the 19th century.”
Category: words
Gone With The Wind’s ‘Mammy’ To Get A Book Of Her Own
“It’s a book that respects and honors its source material, but it also provides a necessary correction to what is one of the more troubling aspects of the book, which is how the black characters are portrayed.”
The UK Doesn’t Want Prisoners Getting Books Anymore. Writers And Actors Lead The Protests
“I also believe that as a species, language is the greatest thing that we do, so I have to believe in the redemptive power of the written word.”
The Amazon Books Problem
“There’s a fundamental problem with bookselling as a business: put bluntly, it’s that people aren’t really into buying books. Bezos discovered this via a 1998 survey that found most shoppers didn’t use Amazon.com and probably never would, because—well—Americans buy very few books.”
Our Language Is Being Infested With Jargon!
“If you go on government ministry websites, for instance, the way they write is absolutely impenetrable. It’s all posted online for members of the public, but you can’t understand what they’re saying.”
Margaret Mitchell Estate Approves Prequel to ‘Gone With the Wind’
And the backstory the new book (due in October) will give us isn’t Scarlett’s. It’s Mammy’s.
You’ve Heard Of Puppy Mills? Here’s The Academic Equivalent
“The company declines to release financial data but claims to publish 50,000 books every month, making it, by its own accounting, one of the largest book publishers in the world.”
Wait – We Thought The Digital Revolution Was Going To Make Paper Obsolete
“For the moment, at least, paper remains the standard to which digital media can only aspire.”
Can Manhattan Be the Center of the Literary Universe When Bookstores Can’t Afford to Be There?
Ever-rising rents have been pushing out independent booksellers for years, but now even Barnes & Noble is getting priced out.
The Decline and Fall of the Conservative Book Publishing Juggernaut
“Ten years ago, the genre was a major source of intellectual energy on the right, and the site of a publishing boom, with conservative imprints popping up at industry giants like Random House and Penguin. But after a decade of disruption, uneven sales, and fierce competition, many leading figures in the conservative literati fear the market has devolved into an echo of cable news, where an overcrowded field of preachers feverishly contends for the attention of the same choir.”