The Independent Publishers Group: “Our electronic book agreement recently came up for renewal, and Amazon took the opportunity to propose new terms for electronic and print purchases that would have substantially changed (book publishers’) revenue from the sale of both. It’s obvious that publishers can’t continue to agree to terms that increasingly reduce already narrow margins.”
Tag: 02.23.12
With Music, You Know More Than You Think You Know
Even audiences intimidated by classical music can figure out what’s important in a piece, says a neurologist. “Just as a baby’s cry or an alarm elicits an emotional response, music causes reactions, Outwater says, adding, ‘It’s beyond emotion, it’s really hormones and chemicals.'”
Study: Mix Up Your Routine – It Promotes Creativity
“According to a newly published study, preparing a common meal in reverse order may stimulate innovative thinking.”
ENO Launches Online Search For Composers And Writers
“English National Opera is to launch a global online talent search for new composers, writers and filmmakers in an initiative seeking to ‘create the future of opera’.”
London Olympics May Hurt West End Sales In Short Term, But Should Help In Longer Term
“According to research into the legacy of the Olympics published by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, London is expected to benefit from increased tourism after the event. The report states: ‘By 2013, the displacement effect is expected to be eroded and tourism into London should increase due to the 2012 games’.”
Tate Gallery’s Photo Archive Saved From Garbage; V&A’s Lost
“Art historians have been disturbed by allegations that the Tate was about to dump its invaluable photographic archive in a skip when another institution realised its importance and rescued it, and that the Victoria & Albert Museum has already destroyed its own thematic archive.”
The Problem With Calling Certain Behaviors ‘Hard-Wired’
“Does ‘hard-wired’ mean that our human nature is impervious to change in the specific behavior under scrutiny? Or does it mean that we are genetically ‘set’ to behave in ways that served us well in the past, and that can only be superseded rarely and with enormous effort?”
Police Drop Investigation Of British Empire And Commonwealth Museum
“An investigation into the unauthorised disposal of objects from the Bristol-based British Empire and Commonwealth Museum has been dropped by Avon and Somerset police.”
What Linsanity Says About Race In America
“If he were still alive, Sigmund Freud might have been a Jeremy Lin fan.” The media frenzy over the Asian-American basketball star “has pointed out some residual glitches in the American psyche, in particular how the nation struggles to accept genuine racial diversity.”
When Jonny Greenwood Met Krzysztof Penderecki
Says the leader of Radiohead, “I was trying hard not to be intimidated or overly starstruck … I kind of wish he had been more foreboding, but he’s just very friendly.” Says the venerable avant-garde composer, “I didn’t expect to meet somebody from pop music who was really quite a normal person. He dresses very normal, he has dignity and very good manners.”