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Archives for the ‘Brave New World’ Category

The Bookstore’s Last Stand

By the Branta Webcrawler • Jan 30th, 2012 • Category: Brave New World, Editor's Picks, From the Interweb, Publishing, eBook Shelf

Working in secret, behind an unmarked door in a former bread bakery, they rushed to build a device that might capture the imagination of readers and maybe even save the book industry.
Julie Bosman - New York Times



Digitizing grOnk

By the Branta Webcrawler • Jan 30th, 2012 • Category: Brave New World, Editor's Picks, Poetry, Publishing



Why publishers should give away ebooks

By the Branta Webcrawler • Jan 30th, 2012 • Category: Brave New World, Editor's Picks, Recommended Artistic Consumption, eBook Shelf

The only technology you need to read a print book is the eyes you were born with, and print continues, for the moment, to be the leading format for books. If you start giving away downloads with print copies, you shake things up in a pretty big way.
Nicholas Carr - Rough Type



Erotic books popular with e-readers

By the Branta Webcrawler • Jan 30th, 2012 • Category: Branta Recommends, Brave New World, From the Interweb



The Golden Book Gown

By the Branta Webcrawler • Nov 30th, 2011 • Category: Branta Recommends, Brave New World, From the Interweb, Graphic Stories, In the Other Arts, Recommended Artistic Consumption



Shocked

By Gerry Fostaty • Nov 23rd, 2011 • Category: Brave New World, Feature Post, Goose Lane Authors, Ha Ha

Reporting on any and all activity, even your bodily functions, or while engaged in bodily functions, seems mandatory. I stood at a urinal in the Vancouver airport while the man in the next spot talked loudly on his cell phone. He even had a cigarette in his mouth. I asked him, “Is that what they call voice-over-I-pee.” He sneered and jutted his chin at me over the divider, causing the ash to drop, hopefully not anywhere delicate. He growled while I fled.



Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face

By the Branta Webcrawler • Nov 22nd, 2011 • Category: Brave New World, Editor's Picks, Graphic Stories, In the Other Arts

There was an ineffably disarming and safe quality about her designs. Like their self-effacing creator — who still makes a point of surfing in the ocean several mornings a week — they radiated good vibes. To creative innovators in the ’80s who didn’t see themselves as computer geeks, Kare’s icons said: Stop stressing out about technology. Go ahead, dive in!
Steve Silberman/Neurotribes



Bookends

By the Branta Webcrawler • Nov 9th, 2011 • Category: Brave New World, Editor's Picks, From the Interweb, Video

Bookends is a vibrant and dynamic conversation about contemporary books and the world of literary genre. Justine Lewkowicz interviews authors, bookstore owners, and in- the- know literary geeks to find out what’s happening in the literary world.



Can Harper Perennial reinvent publishing?

By the Branta Webcrawler • Oct 18th, 2011 • Category: Brave New World, Editor's Picks, Essays, Publishing

Harper Perennial’s model isn’t unique, but it’s an intriguing case study in what an imprint needs to do to distinguish itself in an increasingly stratified market. What it does is innovative and exciting, but also traditional.
Kevin Canfield/Salon



Canadian Sadcore

By Nathaniel G. Moore • Oct 6th, 2011 • Category: Branta Recommends, Brave New World, From the Interweb, Ha Ha, In the Other Arts, Poetry