Dec
2
Literary Round Up
December 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Here is something I’ve had on my list to share with you for a while – better late than never. Enjoy this transcript of a brilliant speech by the late David Foster Wallace. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE, IN HIS OWN WORDS IN MEMORIAM The world of letters has lost a giant. We have felt nourished by [...]
Nov
23
Old School Books Win In The Children’s Book Market
November 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Parents tend to choose old fashioned paper books over e-books for their children…
Nov
3
A Book We Want To Read, and two other things…
November 3, 2011 | 1 Comment
We want to read this: Nuclear Romance, a debut novel by New York journalist Abby Luby, was written after the devastating accident at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plants in March, 2011. In the novel, the tragic and mysterious death of a 7-year old girl after swimming at a beach across [...]
Oct
26
Thinking Outside The Book
October 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment
These are books. These are also books. …and so is this. What else? Enjoy this TED Talk on next generation digital books: “Software developer Mike Matas demos the first full-length interactive book for the iPad — with clever, swipeable video and graphics and some very cool data visualizations to play with. The book is “Our [...]
Oct
24
The Revolution will Be Novelized
October 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment
We’ve all seen how literature is a tool of protest and revolution: Publishing your views sure beats throwing molotov cocktails, and it also seems to be much more effective. We’ve blogged on this in the past, here. (I am looking forward to the first books about the Occupy Wall Street movement.) In this vein, friends [...]
Sep
30
Stories From The Backseat
September 30, 2011 | 1 Comment
Here’s a voice that has been mostly unheard of in books – A Chicago taxi driver has written a book brimming with rich stories of cab life: Hack: Stories from a Chicago Cab… A ‘Hack’ Shares Years Of Stories From A Chicago Cab “A cab driver’s job is relatively straightforward: shuttle riders from door to [...]
Aug
18
Where Is The Future? And Where Isn’t It?
August 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment
The new world of publishing may mean doing some things differently, but it doesn’t mean throwing everything out that’s worked for so many years…
Aug
11
Crunching Books
August 11, 2011 | 1 Comment
Finally someone innovates the e-book publishing platform – BiblioCrunch.com.
Aug
5
Our friend David Wilk over at Bootktrix (“Every trick in the book!”) has a new blog post up about the end of Borders Books. He has kindly allowed Livewires to repost the piece here. Thank you David! For more breaking news on publishing and books please visit the Booktrix blog and the Booktrix website (creative [...]
Jul
29
e-Life with e-Artifacts
July 29, 2011 | Comments Off
Even if it wasn’t inevitable, which it is, we are doing it: We are building a Digital Future. School libraries have been bulldozed to make way for computer labs. Is this good? Is this bad? Is this progress? Come to think of it, “digital” is an understatement. The new “books” are connected in every which [...]