I have seen some of these before, but there are enough new ones to post about it. The typogrphically inspired on remains one of my all time favorites.
But I have to say that this one…
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Quills are no more
Over the past three years, Reed Business Information has pushed the Quills as publishing’s “Oscar night”, even having the literary award show televised. But today, RBI announced the plug has been pulled on the awards and the broadcast. So now we’ll all just have to rely on things like the Pulitzers, PEN awards, the Man Booker, etc. to tell us who is popular and who is not. Much like Jerome Weeks’ post today spells out.
Also, RBI has announced that they are for sale and looking for a buyer. So I’ll be happy to set-up a PayPal account if we all want to go in together and make an offer! I wonder if there would be much backlash if we moved the company headquarters to Birmingham, Alabama?
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What is in a name?
I ran across thebookseller.com’s “Oddest Book Title Prize” this weekend. So far I Was Tortured By the Pygmy Love Queen has my vote. You can vote too, with the winner being announced March 28th.
I mean really “pygmy love queen”? How do you come up with that?
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A jab at Jobs
The flash-in-the-pan that was Steve Jobs’ statement about reading and books was wide spread and still getting batted around on conversations.
Well, today the NY Times ran a piece that tries to balance out the numbers and logic (or illogic) in Jobs’ thinking. I agree with most of the piece, except when they get to the numbers part. For some reason, “the numbers argument” never holds water for me. I mean just because hundreds of millions of books get printed doesn’t mean they’re any good or that people are reading all of them. That just seems like a bad metric. We need to measure the other end of the process.
But I like the thinking here about “reading is not a product”.
{via Reed Next}
