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the book is dead a blog about a book about books the book is dead a blog about a book about books blog events media the dead book the blog is almost dead posted march 18 2015 filed under uncategorized leave a comment yes it s been a while and mainly because different priorities have popped up in my life but apparently this blog was just mentioned at a conference reinventing university publishing https universitypublishingsymposium wordpress com so i thought i d blog about it the commentary suggested that the title should be the blog is dead note to self must try harder amazon buys goodreads posted april 19 2013 filed under uncategorized leave a comment from salon and old news i know on the goodreads facebook page sentiment about the acquisition is running 10 to one against it many members felt proprietary about the site and posted with surprising venom that they felt betrayed and were going to delete their accounts a typical response you screwed us over take your money and run you know the site you worked so hard on will be corrupted by amazon more measured voices implored goodreads please don t compromise the integrity of the best online community of book lovers more on self publishing posted april 19 2013 filed under uncategorized leave a comment at the new york times david mamet goes the self publishing route as digital disruption continues to reshape the publishing market self publishing including distribution digitally or as print on demand has become more and more popular and more feasible with an increasing array of options for anyone with an idea and a keyboard most of the attention so far has focused on unknown and unsigned authors who storm onto the best seller lists through their own ingenuity the announcement by icm and mr mamet suggests that self publishing will begin to widen its net and become attractive also to more established authors for one thing as traditional publishers have cut back on marketing this route allows well known figures like mr mamet to look after their own publicity ebooks at 22 posted april 19 2013 filed under uncategorized leave a comment association of american publishers data now has ebook sales at 22 of us market paid content link has more it s come to this posted december 9 2012 filed under uncategorized leave a comment it s been a whilst since i last posted after all for most of us the ebook is such a natural part of our lives that the sturm and drang of publishing industry mergers and the churning out of christmas special celebrity cookbooks is just grist to a very old mill i did present at a conference where there s was some last gasp romanticising but that s for another post perhaps anyhow a quick link to something which sums up where we re at i came across a book vending machine a few years ago at edinburgh airport for those who can t get their books via wifi and now there s this a toronto bookstore has come up with a creative way to add value to old discount books that otherwise may clutter its storage an antique seeming book dispenser that randomly spits out old books for 2 a pop is this the future of printed books via counternotions margaret atwood interviewed posted september 9 2012 filed under uncategorized leave a comment cool interview with margaret atwood in pandodaily sample we tend to be golden age about everything we imagine a past about things being better but we ve forgotten a lot of stuff out of the gutenberg printing presses poured lots of pornography which we decided to forget the classics are just the part of the iceberg that is still visible the point is when you make things more accessible and visible as they are on the web it doesn t make things a lot worse it s just all in front of you and you can see it another one posted september 5 2012 filed under uncategorized leave a comment the ebook to pbook pathway continues the bookseller writes of another successful self published ebook author being taken on by a major this time penguin razorbill the teenage imprint of penguin children s has done the first english language publishing deal with self published author tammara webber webber has been self publishing her books college romances aimed at a crossover readership a genre which has now been named new adult since 2011 hitting the new york times e book bestseller list with easy which has sold more than 150 000 copies according to razorbill shifting posted august 20 2012 filed under uncategorized leave a comment a link to a new york times piece interviewing william h gass who has published a new essay entitled abstractions arrive having been there all the time as an ipad only ebook available on the ibook store why the big deal because gass is widely known as the author of in defense of the book an essay in which he argues that the electronic alternative is no alternative to print an interesting albeit brief interview explains how his thinking shifted kickstarter for classics posted august 12 2012 filed under uncategorized leave a comment in the observer a story about unglue it a kick starter for unearthing lost classics and turning them into ebook unglue it crowdsources appreciation for classic books soliciting donations from superfans with the aim of acquiring the rights and releasing them as free ebooks libraries posted july 19 2012 filed under uncategorized leave a comment nice long piece in the new republic from david a bell contemplating libraries in the age of ebooks and in a development that even just thirty years ago would have seemed like the most absurd science fiction there are now far more books available far more quickly on the iphone than in the new york public library older entries recent posts the blog is almost dead amazon buys goodreads more on self publishing ebooks at 22 it s come to this pages events media the dead book long live the book this blog is a companion to my book the book is dead long live the book from unsw press you can download chapter 1 of the book as a pdf file here or you can get the p book here or at amazon as for me i m sherman young and i m a media studies lecturer at macquarie university in sydney australia search for archives march 2015 april 2013 december 2012 september 2012 august 2012 july 2012 june 2012 may 2012 april 2012 march 2012 february 2012 january 2012 december 2011 november 2011 october 2011 september 2011 august 2011 july 2011 june 2011 may 2011 april 2011 march 2011 february 2011 january 2011 december 2010 november 2010 october 2010 september 2010 august 2010 july 2010 june 2010 may 2010 april 2010 march 2010 february 2010 january 2010 december 2009 november 2009 october 2009 september 2009 august 2009 july 2009 june 2009 may 2009 april 2009 march 2009 february 2009 january 2009 december 2008 november 2008 october 2008 september 2008 august 2008 july 2008 june 2008 may 2008 april 2008 march 2008 february 2008 january 2008 december 2007 november 2007 october 2007 september 2007 august 2007 june 2007 may 2007 blog at wordpress com wpzone net 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