Back in September, I made note of the fact that good, old Barney Rosset was to be honored at the National Book Awards ceremony. He was, and now there’s a fantastic article on him in Newsweek. It’s long, and well wroth the read.
Here we go! Sony has revealed that it has sold 300,000 of its digital e-book Reader globally since the device was launched in October 2006 and that it is working on a wireless version of the product to rival Amazon.com’s Kindle. Sony’s unit retails for $300, which, in my opinion, is still too high, but [...]
Last week a Publisher’s Weekly report that Harcourt Houghton Mifflin (HMH) had put a freeze on acquiring new books sent a tremor through the book world. But as the matter has begun to shake out, it seems the report was a bit overblown—or, at least that’s what is being heard from the folks at HMH.
Late yesterday, TechCrunch reported the following:
Update on the Kindle 2: It was scheduled to be released in October in time for this holiday season, but Bezos himself reportedly pulled the plug for last minute changes to the software. Our sources now say it’s tentatively scheduled to go on sale in “early next quarter.”
The images that [...]
Defining the Novel in Northanger Abbey, Ms. Austen said:
A work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest deliniation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humor are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.
Sounds like a novel [...]
From his Primer of English Literature . . .
“Writing is not literature unless it gives to the reader a pleasure which arises not only from the things said, but from the way in which they are said; and that pleasure is only given when the words are carefully or curiously or beautifully put together into [...]
Some time back, I wrote of Books That Changed My Life, and, along the same lines, yesterday I happened upon a post on The Guardian web site concerning Literary Heroes and our inability to choose them. While I’ve posted the link to that article, I’m not at all sure I agree with the premise. In [...]
Nice article from the AP’s Hillel Italie entitled Writers Welcome a Literary President-Elect. The gist is that President Elect Obama actually wrote his books and actually writes his own speeches. Writers, who normally as a group vote for liberal Democrats, appreciate that the words he speaks come from his own mind and reflect his own [...]
As the editor of a book review blog, I read and review many, many books—really, the blog is only a couple of months old, I’ve been reading advance galleys and once the books are actually released, I WILL be publishing my reviews. But that’s not what I want to talk about today, anyway. Rather, I [...]
Really, I don’t want to start a weekly Kindle update, but Oprah forced me to do this week’s addition to the many posts I’ve already done concerning Amazon’s e-reader. For it seems that Ms. Winfrey has decided that the Kindle is her new favorite thing and that we all should have one. Obviously, Amazon agrees [...]
