Warner Books has announced that their new name is Grand Central Publishing. It’s all part of being bought by a French company last year.
I guess dropping “books” from your business/imprint’s name will be standard practice as the big companies move forward and look at online content, etc.
I do want to see the new logo though. Pass a link along if you stumble across it please!
A few weeks ago a very colorful and fun article made the rounds on many blogs. Schott’s NY Times article was about a self-confessed “book abuser” and sparked many create comments and posts across the blogosphere. Well know, folks are taking him to task about the similarities between his article and an essay that appears in Anne Fadiman’s book “Ex Libris.”
Here’s an informative post about it that I found via Books, Inq.
It’s a shame. Looks like the rash of plagerism by professionals over the past couple of years will keep eveyone under the microscope. I mean even if Schott didn’t copy, the burden of proof will always be on him to prove otherwise and regardless of the truth, his name has a smudge on it now.
Through an amazing web of links and referals I wound up at an old thread on Cameron Moll’s blog from August of last year.
The subject of the post is “Typefaces no one gets fired for using”. If you’re in the market for new fonts or some variations on some old favorites, check out all of the recommendations left by the commentors. Lots of good rec’s.
Of course, it’s almost as fun to guess what kind of project these folks must be working on to recommend some of the more “display” (i.e. outlandish) fonts.
In an effort to save money and whittle down my “to be read” pile I have seriously curtailed my book buying this year. So far I’m doing pretty good. But today my willpower broke when I ran across a copy of Stefan Salter’s “From Cover to Cover”!
Yes, he’s one of THE Salter brothers. Though not as prolific as his older brother George, Stefan did hold his own as a book/book cover designer. This is a collection of some of his thoughts and opinions on design and publishing in general. Penned back in 1969 it’s sure to offer some unique insights.
I can’t wait to get that one started.
