So now you can self-publish a book with them and they’ll help broker ad deals, kinda like you would for placing ads on your blog, I think. I guess book publishers got tired of seeing all the rich folks sitting over at the magazine publisher’s table and decided to hop on the train.
The folks over at GalleyCat posted a link to mediabistro’s design blog unbeige which featured a year-end wrap up of Chip Kidd highlights. If you’re interested in bookcover design, Kidd news is always colorful and insightful.
I especially liked this article in The Telegraph, but only in the celeb-news junkie kinda way. Not sure why it’s important that I know what Kidd has over his sofa, but I enjoyed the piece none-the-less. Sort of a pop-ish look, at the man that puts out some of the best book covers, on the planet.
Also, here is a link to the USA Today page which is posting the serialized version of Kidd’s sophomore novel effort The Lerners.
I almost forgot to remind you all out there in blog land about this being Buy A Friend A Book week, one of my favorite underground altruistic movements on the net.
Being a LibraryThinger, I like to keep up with what the field of “social library services” are doing. So I was really enjoying BookPatrol’s thoughts on the subject. I think he has some good “big picture” views. But then the reading got even better when I saw the first comment was from Tim Spalding over at LT. He offered some great insights into the workings of information sharing and data. Both are worth the read, if you have the time.
