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March 14, 2009
Bookstorming with Rick
Taking an author on the road, a publisher can learn again how rich and enjoyable the wide bookselling conversation can be.
February 16, 2009
Nothing more than a naive question
Option clauses—and money—notwithstanding, would this sort of diversification help the literary world?
February 09, 2009
Who asked what I think of word of mouth?
Other than that too-late and too-quick NYTBR reading (with its surprisingly distorted perspective), In Hovering Flight received significant positive reviews
January 18, 2009
The Fragility of Permanence
This seems particularly important in light of a 21st century president’s taking the oath of office on the inaugural Bible of a 19th century president.
January 13, 2009
An editor’s ego
Of course the editor’s is an outrageous, indefensible position for any one reader to take.
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 Actually, I think the assertion was originally made on the chat screen.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.