“Because the press elite generally acted as the high priests of orthodoxy in the holy temple of blue, its decline and fall marks a political as well as an economic transition. Power is passing from institutions that play by the old rules and uphold the old ideas to new kinds of organizations operating on different assumptions.”
Category: publishing
Turkey’s High Court Overturns Acquittals of Publisher On Obscenity Charges
“Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals unanimously overturned previous ruling of acquittals of the publisher and translator of a French book” – Guillaume Apollinaire’s The Exploits of Young Don Juan – stating some of book’s context failed to fall under freedom of speech due to its perversion.”
A Book Reader Makes The Transition To Pixels
“I thought my love of books was too strong but I was mistaken. The conversion to digital formats was as easy as flicking a switch.”
What Made Farrar, Straus & Giroux A Great Publisher
It’s had a larger-than-life central character, an amusing cast of secondary characters, and a history replete with drama. Most important, it has maintained an amazingly consistent level of quality: it’s better than “hot,” it’s good.
Publishers Protest Injunctions Against Apple
The publishers conclude that the DOJ is “attempting to impose a specific business model on the publishing industry, despite their express and repeated representations that they would play no such role.”
E-Books Strain Relations Between Libraries And Publishing Houses
“E-books have changed the world of publishing in fundamental ways. The business model that encouraged publishers to support the work of public libraries has changed to such an extent that this relationship has been stressed to the point of non cooperation.”
Has Our Language Become More Individualistic? Yes – Over Centuries
“The currently discussed rise in individualism is not something recent, but has been going on for centuries as we moved from a predominantly rural, low-tech society to a predominantly urban, high-tech society. This research shows that there has been a two-century-long historical shift toward individualistic psychological functioning adapted to an urban environment.”
Latest Numbers: E-Book Sales Are Flattening
“E-books are still taking share from printed books, sales of which declined by 4.7 percent in the quarter, but the anemic growth of the electronic market calls into question the strength of the so-called “digital revolution” in the book business.”
Ugandan Activists Secretly Publish Anti-Government Books
Amid a crackdown on street protesters who are trying to spark a wider movement against [longtime president Yoweri] Museveni, some local activists are writing and distributing books that they hope can be as effective as placards carried on a street.”
The Writer As Architect
“Great architects build structures that can make us feel enclosed, liberated or suspended. They lead us through space, make us slow down, speed up or stop to contemplate. Great writers, in devising their literary structures, do exactly the same.”