Tao Lin rip-off to go head to head with iPad
Has Melville House author and provocateur Tao Lin inspired a new iPad competitor? At the Global Post, Jonathan Adams writes “Move over iPad, it’s the eeePad.” Tao Lin, whose forthcoming… Read more »
Has Melville House author and provocateur Tao Lin inspired a new iPad competitor? At the Global Post, Jonathan Adams writes “Move over iPad, it’s the eeePad.” Tao Lin, whose forthcoming… Read more »
Thursday at 19:36 Marc Prud’hommeaux, founder and chief developer at Lexcycle, the creators of the Stanza e-book reader, announced, via his blog, the exceeding strange news that the Stanza e-reading… Read more »
It’s a miracle that Keats’s letters to Fanny Brawne survived to be published. And painful to be reminded of what we will never read: Galileo’s letters to his daughter, destroyed… Read more »
During the last decades of the twentieth-century I slumbered in the certainty that I need never leave my naive ghetto of the humanities. Like others of my acquaintance who drifted… Read more »
The e-book has arrived in New Zealand. A story in the Dominon Post reports that Whitcoulls, one of New Zealand’s largest bookselling chains, will launch the country’s “first mainstream digital… Read more »
Lauren Myracle is the mother of three young children. She lives in a small town in Colorado, and is a self-described Christian (“I even teach Sunday School!”). She is also,… Read more »
As if publishers — especially small-time, independent publishers — didn’t have enough to worry about, what with the New York Times’ ”Ethicist” Randy Cohen telling everybody that it’s OK to steal books… 14 / Read more »
The online edition of The Henley Standard, “Delivering the news from Henley-on-Thames and South Oxfordshire for over 100 years,” reports that a Henley bookseller, Jonkers Rare Books, of Hart Street, has… Read more »
A report in The Bookseller says that the House of Lords last week passed the controversial Digital Economy Bill, which attempts a comprehensive regulation of digital media, addressing everything from… Read more »
“Of making many books there is no end.†How often we harmless drudges of the “cultural-worker†class have reason to reaffirm this ancient sigh. That’s from Ecclesiastes, the book of… 2 / Read more »