Adding this extra financial stress onto Kobo is just one of the almost countless ripples flowing out from the Borders dissolution. [...]
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I’m afraid we haven’t yet begun to see just how far the ripples of this loss will travel. Alas, poor Borders. We’ll miss you. [...] The smaller independent bookstores might just have the wherewithal to go on and thrive, while the bloated chains do not. What do you think? [...] Some of my Twitter acquaintances are staging Free E-Day tomorrow, December 1st. This is a day to celebrate Indie Culture, featuring plenty of art that will be given away for free. [...]
Today I’m doing some more browsing through search engines, and this week the search term I’m using is “book information.” And again I’ve been finding some little things that are interesting. [Author's Note: the one I think is the neatest is #4 below, so if you don't want to read anything long, [...] He argues that we should neither be in such a rush to eliminate physical paper books, nor should bookish people look down their noses at digitized books and e-readers. We are not confronted with an either-or situation, says Darnton, despite what people on both sides of the divide believe. [...]
AmazonFail I hate hate hate empires, and those who try to build them and force people to be enslaved to them. Therefore as of today I am starting to remove Amazon links and affliliate crap from this blog. Have a look at the Library Thing blog, and read about how Amazon [...] Coach House is one of the last publishers in Canada to produce all its books onsite. [...] A friend on Facebook linked to this newspaper article today: Manga manna for wine-grower. It’s about a Korean manga series, The Drops of God, that promotes the virtues of particular wines. The whole plot of the manga revolves around two characters, Shizuku Kanzaki, the son of a famous wine critic, and his adoptive sommelier brother, [...] I mentioned back in this post, Microsoft Word to be banned, that a court ruled in late August that Microsoft had engaged in patent infringement with some of the features included in Word, its word processing program. The court in Texas that made the ruling gave Microsoft 60 days to change the program (taking us into [...] |
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