Tag Archive | Publishing
Children’s Books in the Digital Age
April 12, 2017 by Jack Dziamba. New Post Goes Up Every Wednesday. The Book in the New Media We have never written before about books for children. Indeed, as Kate Rix has written for Open Culture, “For all of the free literature and essays available online, a surprisingly small amount is geared toward children. Even […]
The Paris Review Video: Karl Ove Knausgaard Discusses His First Book, … and What It Did To Him
March 1, 2017 by Jack Dziamba. New Posr Goes Up Every Wednesday The Paris Review has launched a video series, “My First Time,” where artists discuss their “First Work,”and the effect it has had on them as artists. In the video above Karl Ove Knausgaard talks about writing his first book, Ute av verden (Out […]
500 Year Old Rare Book Recounts Journey to the East 100 Years Before Marco Polo
McMaster University Library “McMaster University Library, has recently acquired the first Latin translation of The Travels of Benjamin Tudela, a travelogue originally written in Hebrew by Benjamin of Tudela, a Jewish merchant from Zaragoza in Andalus, now southern Spain.” 100 Years Before Marco Polo “The book recounts Benjamin’s 13-year journey which, from 1160 to 1173, took […]
Beyond Words – Whither the Book c. 1400?
Whither the Book in the 1400s? Just as we, today wonder about the continued existence of the Print Book, ” Beyond Words: Italian Renaissance Books,” at the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum, Boston, deftly puts this “new” wonder into perspective, “Just as we question today whether printed books will become extinct in the digital age, this […]
New York Public Library Public Domain Collections: Free to Share & Reuse
New Post Goes Up Every Wednesday by Jack Dziamba SPOTLIGHT ON THE PUBLIC DOMAIN “On January 6, 2016, The New York Public Library enhanced access to all public domain items in Digital Collections so that everyone has the freedom to enjoy and reuse these materials in almost limitless ways.” Three Screens, Three Live Links […]
ANDY WARHOL’S BOOKS – BEFORE THE DIGITAL AGE
Andy Warhol, A Gold Book, 1957. Courtesy of The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh. © 2015 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. March 4, 2015 New Post Goes Up Every Wednesday ANDY’S BOOKS From his student days in the 1940s until his death […]
PAPERS, PRESERVATION, MINUS PUBLISHERS
New Post Goes Up Every Wednesday. A recent article in ArtDaily, has caused us to ask “Where are the Book Publishers in Preservation?* (Ans. below.) PRESERVATION ArtDaily,“The New York Public Library will soon digitize and make more accessible to the public 50,000 pages of historic early American manuscript material, courtesy of a $500,000 grant from The Polonsky Foundation.” […]
Listen to 60+ Free, High-Quality AudioBooks of Classic Literature on Spotify
New Post goes up Every Wednesday Listen to 60+ Free, High-Quality AudioBooks of Classic Literature on Spotify: Austen, Dickens, Tolstoy & More* * Or, “Where mainstream e-book publishers fear to tread.” Re-blogged from OpenCulture, Feb. 4, 2015. OpenCulture remains one of the best blogs on the internet. “Where music goes, technologically speaking, audio books soon […]
AMAZON / AUTHORS, YOU, Part 2 – 2015
New Post Goes Up Every Wednesday January 7, 2015 WILL THIS BE THE YEAR OF THE (NEW) BOOK? In our post of November 12, 2014, AMAZON: BOOK, PUBLISHER, SELLER, YOU, we reported on the state of affairs between Amazon and book publishers, quoting an article appearing in the December 2014 issue of Vanity Fair, “The War of the […]
THE HARVARD CLASSICS ONLINE – FREE FOR YOU AND ME
New Post Goes Up Every Wednesday THE HARVARD CLASSICS – FREE ONLINE My Harvard Classics is an interactive Harvard Classics Reading Guide on the Web. With a click of the mouse you are taken directly to the exact volume and chapter for each day’s reading. Each volume of The Harvard Classics may be downloaded for free. It is […]
Whither the Book 