Fake authors (possibly organized international gangs) are taking advantage of the ease of e-book self-publishing to earn crazy dollars off of pirated material, especially pirated erotica. Does Amazon care?
Tag: 01.12.12
What Do British Filmmakers Think Of David Cameron’s Funding Ideas?
“Reaction continued to be divided across Britain’s film world yesterday in the wake of comments by prime minister David Cameron, ahead of a visit to Pinewood studios, in which he suggested that lottery funding of cinema projects would be aimed towards ‘commercial’ projects.”
Lost Brahms Piano Work To Have Belated Premiere
“Entitled Albumblatt, meaning ‘sheet from an album’, the composition was discovered in the library at Princeton by the conductor and musicologist Christopher Hogwood. It will be performed by the pianist Andras Schiff on [BBC Radio 3’s] Music Matters on 21 January.”
Jan Groover, Postmodern Still Life Photographer, Dead At 68
“Instead of feast tables or objects in the rooms of the wealthy, the still-life tableaus that first brought Ms. Groover to prominence in the late 1970s focused on the everyday implements of the kitchen, arranged in the sink … shot in such a way as to confound perspective and to transform light into a kind of object itself in the reflective surfaces.”
‘Asian Booker’ Expands Shortlist To Seven Titles
“A record seven titles are in competition for the Man Asian Literary Prize, with author Amitav Ghosh among a trio of Indian writers dominating the latest short list for the $30,000 US honour. The ‘power and diversity’ of the fiction coming from contemporary Asian writers compelled the jury to expand the finalists beyond the traditional five titles.”
The Stage, The Screen And The Screen On Stage
“Can film and theater live happily together in the same room? It’s not that they haven’t had a long relationship already, with each regularly borrowing stories and stars from the other. But now these two separate (and arguably equal) art forms are attempting to practice cohabitation.”
Coming Soon: A History Of Social Dancing In Britain
“Royal Opera House creative director Deborah Bull is to front a five-part BBC series looking at the role dance has played socially in Britain’s history. Deborah Bull’s Dance Nation will be broadcast on Radio 4, and is being made by independent company Just Radio.”
The Wayback Machine: Frank Zappa’s Last Documentary
“This one, recorded the year of his sad and untimely death, tries very hard and does capture much of what was best loved about the great man.”
Blockbuster Exhibits Make A Win For The Met, But MoMA Attendance Slumps
The Alexander McQueen exhibit boosts the Met Museum’s attendance, but MoMA can’t quite regain the banner numbers of 2010. Still, both museums have good news about the recession – for them, it’s pretty much over.
If You Please, Ma’am, Sir: The Downton Abbey Reading List
Is this a January publishing gold rush? “Publishers are convinced that viewers who obsessively tune in to follow the war-torn travails of an aristocratic family and its meddling but loyal servants are also literary types, likely to devour books on subjects the series touches.”