As a lover of printed matter and tactics of protest, it is with interest that I read the news of a massive demonstration this past Saturday in Qidong, an eastern… Read more »

Considering that we skipped right over winter this year in New York, everyone seems to be talking about climate change lately: “Can you believe this weather? Thanks, global warming!” But… Read more »

In the introduction to Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death: Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985), Postman relates our society to that of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World,… Read more »

“An Israeli researcher says a source for studying the Earth’s pollution history has been discovered in books — not what is written there, but the paper itself,” according to a… Read more »

Texas, home of the oil oligarchs, I mean, oil cartels, no, I mean, oil barons. Anyway — guess where the first electric car charging station is being built in the… 2 / Read more »

The New York Times does a little side-by-side comparison here, of the ecological efficiencies of books versus e-books, using, “life-cycle assessment, which evaluates the ecological impact of any product, at… 2 / Read more »

“If you thought you were saving forests and protecting the environment by going paperless…think again.” Over at PBS Mediashift, Don Carli covers the ever-persistent concern of using digital media to… Read more »

Last heard from in public attacking the personality of a writer who used to work for him in a highly vindictive, and seemingly planted, New York Times report (see the… Read more »

“. . . as the corporate publishing world has become as predictable and formulaic as fast food, meaty intellectual books (or more daringly, those with leftist leanings — the blowfish… Read more »

It’s simple, says a new report from the Book Industry Study Group: “The publishing industry continues to put out more books than the public is prepared to buy,” synopsizes Hillel… Read more »