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Tag Archives: books
Recombinant publishers
I was reading something somewhere about publishing this weekend and came across a mention of Sonny Mehta, chief of Knopf Doubleday, which completely discombobulated me. Knopf Doubleday?! You see, three decades ago, I worked in an extraordinarily good little independent … Continue reading
Posted in Reading
Tagged Alfred P. Knopf, Ann Landers, books, E.B. White, Levinson's Books, publishing conglomerates, Tracy Kidder
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Is there a shortage of book designers?
It’s a lot easier to publish a book than it used to be. Mostly this is A Good Thing, I think. Despite all the lamentations you can find about how print-on-demand (POD) publishing lets just anybody get themselves into print, … Continue reading
Posted in Reading, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged book design, books, POD, publishing, Robin Williams
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A book is a book is a book . . . ?
It’s not that I don’t think a lot about books and reading as it is. I’ve written in Viral Learning about how I thoroughly I think in print rather than images. I’ve been a nearly compulsive reader since I first … Continue reading
Posted in Reading, Science & Technology, Writing
Tagged books, ebooks, Kindle, Stanza
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