eric | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 04 2007 | books, new york, news, thepugetnews
Steve Wasserman takes a look at the state of newspaper book reviews for the "Columbia Journalism Review" and finds that they're broken.
Quoted: That book coverage is disappearing is not news. What is news is the current pace of the erosion in coverage, as well as the fear that an unbearable cultural threshold has been crossed: whether the book beat should exist at all is now, apparently, a legitimate question. Jobs, book sections, and pages are vanishing at a rate rivaled only by the degree to which entire species are being rendered extinct in the Amazonian rain forest.
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 20 2008 | 2666, Roberto Bolaño, books
From the translator of 2666, a set of notes which will be helpful when I get around to reading it.
Quoted: Macmillan: 2666: A Novel: Books: Roberto Bolaño
ShareViewed: 4 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 17 2008 | Robert Bolano, design, books
Beautiful book design for what is supposed to be an incredible book. Christmas anyone?
ShareViewed: 1 Time - eric | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 15 2008 | books, writing, news, Michiko Kakutani, David Foster Wallace
Kakutani remembers David Foster Wallace - fondly.
Quoted: David Foster Wallace’s strobe-lit portraits of millennial America were infused with humor and fervor and verve.
ShareViewed: 2 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 28 2008 | kindle, books, Amazon.com
Wired put together a Wish List of features for Kindle 2.0. Most aren't surprising but I absolutely love the idea of content subscription for books.
Quoted:The rumblings in the ground are pointing to an imminent Kindle 2.0, a successor to Amazon's loved but flawed e-book reader. The Kindle has effectively dropped
ShareViewed: 6 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 31 2008 | George Orwell, books
The Orwell diaries will be released online starting August 9th, one entry per day, as a blog at orwelldiaries.wordpress.com. Nice!
ShareViewed: 1 Time - eric | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 09 2008 | books, Scott Berkun, project management
Scott Berkun has a new book that looks interesting. This one is on prioritization.
Quoted: Editor Project manager and writer Scott Berkun knows how to get things done when you've got a team of people
ShareViewed: 4 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - May 28 2008 | business, music, books, Amazon.com, Unbox, MP3
Apparently Jeff announced that Amazon will be launching Pay-Per-View streaming service next week. I wonder what that entails and if it will work as well as my Tivo 3/Unbox connection right now? Will I also be able to access music subscriptions?
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - May 27 2008 | shopping, Borders, Amazon.com, books
Ouch. Silicon Alley Insider (via Clusterstock) doesn't seem to believe Borders is better off "going it alone" and running their own website.
Quoted: Borders hopes that taking its site in-house will compensate for its sputtering bricks-and-mortar store business. Unfortunately, it's more likely Borders will now be able to fail at two businesses instead of one.
ShareViewed: 3 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - May 23 2008 | business, books, blog, reading
Quoted: Seth Godin's riffs on marketing, respect, and the ways ideas spread.
ShareViewed: 12 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - May 20 2008 | books, tattoos, photos
A collection of literary tattoo photos. Very nice! Personally, I'm a fan of the text tattoos since they honor the originals.
Quoted: Adventures in middlebrow.
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