Archive for the 'Media' Category (Chronologically Listed)

Merging Media August 28th, 2008

    The creator of CSI and Dutton are teaming up to produce a new three-book series of “digital novels”. Let me preface this move with a quote from the CSI guy, Anthony Zuiker…
    “I personally don’t have the attention economy to read a 250-page crime novel from start to finish.”
    So that’s where he is coming from, on […]

Birmingham By the Book August 6th, 2008

    Thanks to Carla Jean Whitley for the mention in the August issue of Birmingham Magazine. Very cool! So everyone go out and buy a copy so you can tell all your friends “hey, I read that book blog”… but seriously she put together a great list of what the article calls “The Essentials… must-visit websites […]

Why the Blook indeed July 10th, 2008

    The uber-popular blog DailyCandy has a new book out. The kick-off party spawned this post, about the blog-to-book movement, from CNET’s Caroline McCarthy. Nothing earth shattering in the post, but through the article and comments you can glean some titles of some recent blook hits and misses, if you’re following those kinds of things.
    It all […]

Amazon.com: the big bully March 28th, 2008

    Amazon.com has announced that they will no longer allow Print On Demand books to be sold on their site… unless they are printed by Amazon’s own POD service BookSurge. It’s no secret that the big A has been struggling to gain a foothold in the booming POD world. But they haven’t been able to. Many […]

Free books! March 25th, 2008

    Cult of Mac and Cult of iPod are now available for free download off of BitTorrent. The publisher No Starch Press calls it an “experiment”, to see what kind of reaction they get and if they can measure it.
    “I’ve been in publishing for just over 20 years and my training has not been to give […]

Helvetica: The Movie March 12th, 2008

    Today, I saw where PBS’s Independent Lens series has picked up Helvetica. This information is so far in advance that it’s more like torture than news. They won’t know the date of its showing until July.

Amos Kennedy Film + News March 11th, 2008

    There is a full trailer on YouTube for the upcoming documentary on southern letterpress artist Amos Kennedy. The film, Proceed and Be Bold, will debut at Columbia College in Chicago on May 9, 2008. Here is the older teaser.
    He is supposed to be at the Alabama Book Festival on April 19th, down in Montgomery. And […]

Steve Jobs saves reading March 3rd, 2008

    Is that a headline of the future? The rumor mill has cranked out enough “what ifs” to come full circle. Ever since Steve jobs announced that no one reads anymore and that publishing is a dead-end market, people have have been picking at him.
    But the NY Times’ blog has a post today, not double guessing, […]

A silent scene starring Samuel February 19th, 2008

    According to the YouTube page, this 1m45s film is the only known footage of southern author Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain). It was taken in 1909 at Stormfield, Connecticut.

So is it collectible? January 29th, 2008

    Word on the street is that one of the supposed top selling non-fiction titles on the market is going to be allowed to “die on the vine”. That is, no new copies are being printed and the distributor is asking for all the books out there to be returned to the warehouse. The folks […]