According to Bowker, the numbers of books published by “traditional” U.S. publishers in 2010 saw a 5 percent increase over 2009, totaling 316,480 books. But these figures are dwarfed by the “nontraditional” category of publishing, which issued a whopping 2.78 million books, a 169 percent increase over the year before.
Tag: 05.30.11
3-D Movie Revenue Begins To Fall, And Hollywood Gets Very Nervous
“Consumer rebellion over high 3-D ticket prices plays a role, and the novelty of putting on the funny glasses is wearing off, analysts say. But there is also a deeper problem: 3-D has provided an enormous boost to the strongest films … but has actually undercut middling movies that are trying to milk the format for extra dollars.”
Dancers Talk About Dancing Onstage Naked
Even performers who heartily approve of stage nudity find the experience daunting when they actually have to do it. (Everyone’s afraid of wobbling.) Several veterans tell The Guardian about how they’ve handled the experience. (“Make sure you have a good lighting designer. It can make all the difference.”)
City College Of New York To Back New Theater Company In Harlem
“In a bid to broaden its theater program and to bring additional polished, diverse theater uptown, City College of New York is lending critical support to an effort to open a new professional theater in residence uptown at Aaron Davis Hall.”
What Should, Or Shouldn’t, An Obituary Include?
“Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative is a long-held obit trope, its logic coming from both an Emily Post courtesy to the bereaved combined with a generally charitable and understandable ‘don’t kick them when they’re down.’ Of course, obit charity can go overboard (it’s not so hard to imagine some well-meaning basement scribe of the moment writing, ‘No one brought more pride to a disheartened nation in so short a time as did Mr. Hitler’).”
A Modern-Day Noah, Building His Ark To Meet Dutch Fire Codes
“If Noah had run into the modern nanny state, or nimby, or a few of the other obstacles that Johan Huibers has been facing, the animal kingdom might look a lot different today.”