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 Send to email | Whose book is it, anyway? in General |  By Rough Ty
el 06-Oct-2011 | Even after I wrote a couple of posts about Amazon's Kindle announcements last week, something still nagged me - I sensed there was an angle I was missing - and two nights ago it finally hit me. I woke from a fretful sleep and discovered a question pinballing through my synapses: What the heck does Kuzuo Ishiguro think about this? Or, more generally: Whose book is it, anyway? You might have thought that question was put to rest a few hundred years ago. For quite a while after Gutenberg invented the printing press, the issue of who controlled a book's contents remained a fraught one. As is often the case, it took many years for laws, contractual arrangements, business practices, and social norms to catch up with the revolutionary new technology. But in due course the dust settled, and control over a book's contents came to rest firmly in the hands of a book's author (at least through the term of copyright). Which seems like the proper outcome. You probably wouldn't, for instance, want book retailers to be able to fiddle with the text of a new book at their whim - that would be annoying, confusing, and wrong. And...
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| Whose book is it, anyway? | | Even after I wrote a couple of posts about Amazon's Kindle announcements last week, something still nagged me - I sensed there was an angle I was missing - and two nights ago it finally hit me. I woke from a fretful sleep and discovered a question pinballing through my synapses: What the heck does Kuzuo Ishiguro think about this? Or, more generally: Whose book is it, anyway? You might have thought [..] Read complete article | | Published 06-Oct-2011 by Rough Ty in General
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| Burying the book | | NPR is featuring, at its site, an excerpt from a chapter of The Shallows titled "The Very Image of a Book," which looks at the rise of e-books and the consequences for reading and writing. The excerpt, which is taken from the end of the chapter, describes how pundits have, for about two centuries now, been eagerly proclaiming the imminent death of the book. And, over and over again, they've been p [..] Read complete article | | Published 03-Jun-2010 by Rough Ty in General
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| Between a book and a web search | | In a well-turned essay to be published in tomorrow's Los Angeles Times, available immediately thanks to the miracle of digital type, Beau Friedlander, the editor-in-chief of Air America, looks into the "chasm between virtual texts and their printed counterparts." He quotes Diane Ackerman on the blessings of the World Wide Web, which can make research a breeze: While planning her most recent book, [..] Read complete article | | Published 08-Nov-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| Thoughts From Kansas | Blogger | Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that |
| Book sale! | | The National Academies Press is selling books at half price for the summer, meaning you can get Robert Hazen's excellent Gen-e-sis for cheap. It's perfect reading whether you're at a deep-sea vent, tidal pools or floating on the surface of the primordial ocean. Read the comments on this post... [..] Read complete article | | Published 26-Jun-2008 by Thoughts in Biology
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| Ni no Kuni: take a look, it's in a book |  When we went into Level-5's TGS booth to play the DS version of Ni no Kuni, we were greeted with an ornate surprise: the spellbook accessory that comes with the Studio Ghibli/Level-5 role-playing game. We took a moment out of our strict 15-minute d [..] Read complete article | | Published 16-Sep-2010 by JC Fletcher in dslevel-5ni-no-kuninintendorpgspellbookstudio-ghiblitgs-2010
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| The remains of the book | | One of the essential characteristics of the printed book, as of the scribal codex that preceded it, is its edges. Those edges, as John Updike pointed out not long before he died, manifest themselves in the physical form of bound books - "some are rough-cut, some are smooth-cut, and a few, at least at my extravagant publishing house, are even top-stained" - but they are also there aesthetically and [..] Read complete article | | Published 30-Sep-2011 by Rough Ty in General
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| We really want this new BioShock art book | 
We know how it is. You're standing at your local department store/Cracker Barrel gift shop/hotel mini-bar and you just can't find the perfect gift for that special video game blog in your life. Hey, we've all been there. This year, we're going [..] Read complete article | | Published 18-Mar-2009 by Justin McElroy in 2k2k-bostonbioshockbreaking-the-moldken-levinetake-two
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| Kotaku`s The Gamers Guide | Blogger | XBOX 360 Gamers Weblog
Gossip, news and leaks for obsessive gamers Kotaku As if you don't waste enough of your time in a gamer's haze, here's Kotaku: a gamer's guide that goes beyond the press release. Gossip, cheats, criticism, design, nostalgia, pred |
| Book It [Note] | | To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Where Is My Canned Coffee? Do You Have It? I Think You Do. Trish finally published her book in Amazon's Kindle store. I talked her into going the digital route, because I think with the increasing pressure agents and book publishers are under, the best way to get any attention is to do it yourself. But maybe it's just the blogger in me. [..] Read complete article | | Published 11-May-2009 by Brian Crecente in Note day note
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