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. [...]
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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. [...] 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’ve always thought of Penguin books as kind of elite books, or at least the sort of things that university students and intellectuals would buy. I had no idea that they actually started out as books designed to provide inexpensive, good quality fiction for the masses. Penguin tweeted a link to their [...] The article asks, “Could something like Twitter host Canada’s next great literary trend?” To which my answer would be, “Of course.” … [...] [T]he British Library has created this exhibit that will allow people to see the entire thing, thanks to the wonders of modern digital technology. The exhibit is called From Parchment to Pixel: The Virtual Reunification of Codex Sinaiticus, and it will be running from July 6 to September 7, 2009 … [...] I just heard about something starting in the U.K. that could be a great thing, and I hope it catches on in North America. The People’s Book Prize website is going to launch on June 1, 2009, but there’s already some information there. This is going to be a prize which doesn’t have a select [...] The classics! For free! I just heard about another e-book platform that even works with the Kindle as well as the Sony Reader, iPhone & iPod Touch, and so on. It’s Feedbooks, a site based in France, which provides the ability to download thousands of classics — for free — in a universal e-reading format. [...] |
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