Let’s be honest about our country. Let’s be open about our culture. This is American on this day, May 9, 2012. It seems hard to find any values that we could attach ourselves to.
What happened to us?
A Republican presidential hopeful was able to run an entire campaign at a national level based…
6 Adam Mars-Jones reflects on reviewing after receiving the newly-created Hatchet Job of the Year award (from The Observer)
(Source: thebooksmugglers)
Hierarchy of Book Publishing
The Top 100
(circa 2012)1). Brand-name authors (still)
- Stephen King (since 1974)
- John Grisham (1989)
- Patricia Cornwell (1990)
- Jodi Picoult (1992)
- Nicholas Sparks (1996)
- Jennifer Weiner (2001)
- Etc.
2). Self-published authors with proven track…
428 (Source: brain-food, via havingastrangeinterlude)
(Source: vodkathoughts, via havingastrangeinterlude)
Neat! AddThis just published their 2011 stats on “sharing” across the web.
It looks like you guys have been busy. :)
I am befuddled by “address bar” creating a viral lift. Also, by the term viral lift, which sounds rather… fluffy!
I’ve been pondering this entry since I read it.
First, my take on the idea that God is influencing the Broncos winning streak because of Tebow’s outward show of faith: I sincerely and deeply hope that any greater power having any influence on the beings of this earth has greater things to do than worry about whether a football team wins a game. Amen.
Second, Sohn’s contrast between NFL broadcasters cannot accept that Tebow’s quarterbacking style remains effective and record executives who resisted change only to have it foisted upon them made me ponder the success of ebooks and self publishing and the resistance to change demonstrated by many publishers on various levels, from obstructing digital library lending to agency pricing.
I don’t have a conclusion, but I’m struck by the repeated familiarity of the idea that anything so different and so successful while being so different MUST be a fluke.
Technology is ruining the holidays. A download is a dud gift (dudload?).
— Steven Salardino, manager of Skylight Books, Los Angeles, Calif., from the bookstore’s latest e-newsletter
From today’s Shelf Awareness. I’m hard pressed to think of an ebook advocate who talks so much smack about print books. Wish the reverse were true. Can’t we all just agree that reading is the most important thing? (via amiwithani)
