January 13, 2009

An editor’s ego

Of course the editor's is an outrageous, indefensible position for any one reader to take.

January 07, 2009

Too much book for a Kindle?

I've noticed that my own Kindle use has changed.

January 06, 2009

Life is Elsewhere

As we worry whether the big houses will survive, season by season, what are we losing sight of?

December 18, 2008

The Format Formerly Known as Print

"A book is just a format." Actually, I think the assertion was originally made on the chat screen. And I guess that's where we are in publishing now. I get that.

December 08, 2008

If readers begin again to browse

Killing the practice of browsing in bookstores might have a long-term cost to the dominant industry.

December 01, 2008

Getting nearer the real questions

I’ve already found at least volume two of Memoirs of the Sansons that way, though I can’t say I’ve read more than a single chapter in the book. Which is, precisely, my point—I sampled it and moved on. Who would have thought that guillotining could be a family business?

November 29, 2008

Branding the editors

Certainly, readers acknowledging editors would require significant evolution beyond the form that our branch of the industry has taken over the past decade or so.

November 21, 2008

book-bearing urges

I have had, I’m afraid, a rather profligate book-buying November. Okay maybe not profligate, but certainly indulgent.

November 14, 2008

The death of print and a home out in the wind

If the irresistible pressure of the internet is outward to the world, will the online versions of those publications be able to maintain their emphasis, not only on local news and local socio-political specificities, but on local flavor?

March 25, 2008

What the Litblog Co-op engendered

Litbloggers should eventually move on to other endeavors, become not only conversationalists, but producers of literature. . . . It takes time to murder and create.