When I first started closely following the big changes in the publishing industry, James Bridle’s blog BookTwo was one of my first stops. And since then I’ve continued to watch with great appreciation as James has pushed and poked at “publishing.” The passion that drives his endeavours – passion for books, for words, for writing, [...]
On the Britannica Blog, Nick Carr looks at how digital is changing our relationship with text, and doesn’t like what he sees. We’re turning into debased computers, he thinks:
We’re rapidly moving away from our old linear form of writing and reading, in which ideas and narratives wended their way across many pages, to a [...]
A few weeks ago, dinner chez Mr & Mrs Book Oven (beef stew and mashed potatoes, if I recall correctly) was smelling delicious and ready to be eaten. We wanted to watch a movie. We’ve got a subscription to Zip.ca, Canada’s Netflix, and I have a habit of listing every avant-guard movie from 1927 I [...]
The Newspaperman and the Blogger
On July 9, Ian Shapira, Staff Writer for the Washington Post wrote a 1,500 word fluff piece about consultant Anne Loehr, who explains GenY to their cohabitants in the workplace. Then Gawker’s Hamilton Nolan blogged the story, reprinting some of Anne Loehr quotations from the Post piece.
Ian Shapira was initially happy: [...]
From CBC’s Writers & Company:
This week, international crime. From Italy, Gianrico Carofiglio; from Sweden, Asa Larsson; from Scotland, Louise Welsh; and from Canada, Giles Blunt – talk about mystery writing.
> Listen here.
Wonder what to read next? Enter Bookseer. Wonder no more:
From James & the wonderful people at Apt.
Northshire Bookstore in Vermont is the first indie bookshop in the US with an Espresso Book Machine. It’s brisk business is in self-publishing authors:
Northshire took delivery of its unit last year. Other first-generation machines went to college bookstores, like the one at the University of Alberta, and libraries, including the Library of Alexandria in Egypt [...]
HarperCollins Canada’s blog The Savvy Reader, recommends ten books to read on Canada Day.
This is my presentation at the BookNetCanada Tech Forum in March, titled: Time, Love & Books. Sorry, there is 1 slide only, for you Powerpoint buffs.
I talk about audiobooks, time acquisition, LibriVox, Google, the link, and the digital archaeology of love. And Hinton, Alberta.
Oh and you’ll have to wait a minute [...]
Book Oven pal Neil Gorman wrote an open letter to the reading public:
Dear Reading Public,
I have said this again and again, and now I’m going to say it again. I honestly don’t know why I keep saying it over and over, maybe I think that if I say it (or write it, podcast it, email [...]
