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Mr. Bezos Goes to Lexington
Amazon.com seems to be all over the news in 2009. In January we learned that the company posted a profit in the final quarter of last year, despite the severe economic downturn. Then in February,...
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Book Publishing’s Reality TV
Will book publishers be able to maintain their cultural authority into the future? Should they? These seem to be the questions implicit in a recent article in the New York Times, “Site Lets Writers...
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Good Morning, Amazon…
First it was the cola wars. Now, it’s the e-book wars. At this past weekend’s book industry trade show, BookExpo America, Google announced that it will begin selling digital book content in the near...
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Is the ISBN Still Necessary?
My inner distribution nerd was thrilled to discover (via José Afonso Furtado) Michael Carins’ recent reflections on the death of the international standard book number, or ISBN, over on his blog...
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“The Localized Appreciation of Books Is Gone”
Sherman Alexie www.colbertnation.com I love it when something that you think will be good turns out to be even better than you’d hoped. Case in point: author Sherman Alexie’s visit to The Colbert...
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Going Mobile
Great news! A good Samaritan, whose handle is “creiercret,” recently uploaded the free, Creative Commons-licensed PDF of The Late Age of Print onto the document sharing site, Scribd. Here’s the link...
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Ambivalently Scribd
You may remember back in March my announcing that The Late Age of Print was available on the document sharing site, Scribd. I was excited to see it there for many reasons, chief among them the...
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The Indies and the E’s
OR, HOW TO SAVE INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES ONE E-BOOK AT A TIME Several weeks ago I mentioned the “Cultures of Books and Reading” class I’m teaching this semester at Indiana University. It’s been a blast...
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New Writing – Working Papers in Cultural Studies
If it wasn’t clear already, I needed a little break from blogging. This past year has been an amazing one here on The Late Age of Print, with remarkable response to many of my posts — particularly...
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