I got up at an ungodly hour last Saturday to make it in time for the 9am start of BookCamp Toronto, and I wasn’t disappointed. An intense day of discussions, arguments and debates — all in the name of books — meant that by the time I was sitting at my gate on the last [...]
Evo Terra posed an interesting question as a comment to my post last week:
[...] how will technology — and specifically the lowering of technological hurdles — allow storytellers to make their stories available in a myriad of formats?
In my humble opinion, most of what we perceive as “tech hurdles” exists in two forms:
there [...]
Yesterday, Hugh posted Steven Johnson’s article on e-books in the WSJ. Having had more time to absorb it, these particular paragraphs got me thinking:
A world in which search attracts new book readers also will undoubtedly change the way books are written, just as the serial publishing schedule of Dickens’s day led to the obligatory [...]
In honour of women in technology for Ada Lovelace Day, I decided to look back in history and see if I could find out about women who worked in the publishing industry. There were very few names to work from, and eventually, I looked into the life of Augusta Lewis Troup — with what limited [...]
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One of the things that we try hard to do at O’Reilly is to identify what’s [...]
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I’d like to talk to you about what we’re doing at Shortcovers. I’ve been at Indigo [...]
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I really believe that you know about me in order to know my bias. I’m not [...]
At More Intelligent Life, Megan Buskey expresses her doubt about e-books, pondering if it’s “possible to read anything serious on a computer, iPhone or Kindle”:
My concern is not really that we will lose books as physical objects (though I’d be sad to see the book go), but that that the concentration, care and reflection intrinsic [...]
Recently, I rediscovered my love for Virginia Woolf in a most unexpected way. It was halfway through a conversation about my philosophy behind managing project teams — nothing to do with literature necessarily, nor women in writing, for that matter — but I was searching for words to describe how people work best when driven [...]
Craig Mod’s post on “The Elusive Literary Object” discusses the merits of a well-designed book:
I consider something to be a literary object when all aspects of production and editorial come together to form something that is entirely complete in execution. That is to say the typography, layouts, papers, binding, cover, size and any other miscellaneous [...]
