Tuesday, June 29, 2010

TECH TRENDS: WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND

 New Indie Bookselling Model: Publish Own Handselling Favorites

Many centuries ago, publishing was essentially the province of booksellers... now, the advent of POD machines and the lack of attention of many publishers seems to be reopening that particular door once more. This is an interesting model, one I think could be added to by an Espresso Book Machine, allowing customers to purchase any public domain (or any other book available through the service). It reinvigorates the indie bookstore, cuts out the expensive supply chain that has so decimated the profitability of the print book, but still supplies real books to actual people in a way that I still firmly believe is a model a vast number of readers appreciate.

Nick W-W




Friday, June 18, 2010

Penguin pulps Lolita after axing fictional foreword | theBookseller.com

BOOKS - WELL FOREWORDS - THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO READ!

This does rather suggest that a whole bunch of people at Penguin didn't actually know much about the classic they were reprinting..it's just not enough (note well Google) to scan pages and dump them out there. Penguin Classics too of all imprints...


Penguin pulps Lolita after axing fictional foreword | theBookseller.com

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Books They Don't Want You To Read - Anti-Putin book seized

Russian police seized 100,000 copies of a book critical of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that activists planned to hand out at the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum.

A book written by two opposition politicians contains something interesting, clearly...




http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/7833181/Police-seize-100000-anti-Vladimir-Putin-books.html