by | Sep 10, 2011 | Literary News
from Shelf Awareness Obituary Note: Michael Stern Hart Michael Stern Hart, founder and head of Project Gutenberg and considered by many to have invented the e-book, died on Tuesday. He was 64. According to Dr. Gregory B. Newby, Hart told this story of how he had the...
by | Sep 5, 2011 | Bright Shiny News, Literary News, Projects
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by | Sep 4, 2011 | Literary News, Mirth
from BuzzFeed Roald Dahl’s Weird And Hilarious Letter To A Class Of Children CULTURE BUZZ: When a group of students sent a letter to Roald Dahl asking him questions about his short story collection “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More,” this was the...
by | Sep 3, 2011 | Bright Shiny News, Literary News
from PaperSpecs Going Forward with the Flipbacks August 30, 2011 Hodder & Stoughton, a UK publisher, recently introduced a paperback book format that’s the size of an iPhone. Called Flipbacks, the books are one-third the size of traditional books. They’re...
by | Sep 1, 2011 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from Idolator Madonna’s ‘Sex’ Book Still The Most Sought-After Out-Of-Print Title Long before Lady Gaga crafted her book of 350 black-and-white photos with Terry Richardson, Madonna unleashed her scandalous watercooler tome Sex. And even though it was released nearly...
by | Aug 31, 2011 | Bright Shiny News, Culture Music Art, Literary News
from Rolling Stone Petra Nemcova, James Frey Remake Iconic Maxell’s Commercial Cassette culture is revived and well: all it needed was a supermodel, controversial author and ironically, an iPhone app to breathe new life into it. A new ad from Booktrack features...
