Category Archives: The Future of the Book
a temporary madness
After a strange visit into the world of book banning, Transport Canada has announced that they’ve changed their security policy to allow books on airplanes.
If this is the first you’ve heard about it, the fellow with the boxer bomb this Christmas made airlines tighten up security against dangerous items. You know, like literature. While exceptions [...]
“literature is dangerous—except when taken in large doses”
I just got a note from Farley Mowat yesterday. Okay, so it was just part of a Green Party fund-raising campaign, but when I finished reading, I proclaimed that I dig Farley Mowat simply because he managed to get turned away by US customs after being invited to speak at a university there. I assumed [...]
Forest Friendly Books
Indigo Books has just realized that “there’s a significant crossover in the people who read books and the people who care about environmental issues…. the more books people buy, the more strongly they feel about environmental values.”
I chalk this up to the fact that all you lovely book readers are just plain smarter.
What has come [...]
Twitter stories?
I think this counts as a novel use of Twitter: Tish Cohen, a Toronto writer, was asked by her publisher to release a short story on Twitter. So she wrote a story that will be released in those delightful <140 character tidbits.
Editing the story down to twitter-sized chunks makes Cohen feel “like an artist working [...]
Publishing in Deep Time
Everyone has an opinion on the E-reader versus Kindle versus print debate. Everyone, that is, but me. All I’ve got is a swirl of biases and emotions. For those of you who made it to the end of Napoleon Dynamite (which I loved, but I know it’s a love/hate kind of flick), what comes to [...]
Books vs Kindle
Kindle’s been in the news a lot lately, mostly due to that whole Amazon debacle. The issue of ownership aside, I don’t honestly expect that such a device can replace the real thing anytime soon. The folks at Green Apple Books obviously feel the same way. Proving that used bookstores are more fun to work [...]
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