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The mystery of the covered-up book cover …
Wandering into my local bookshop the other day, I was shocked to see this: W – as some people say in cyberspace – TF? What’s going on here? How can you buy a book if you can’t read what it … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Media analysis, Publishing, Typography
Tagged Amazon, Books, Commercial, Cover design, Creativity, David Pearson, George Orwell, Marketing, Meaning, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Penguin Books, Publishing
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Baskerville versus the Kindle, Rounds 2–7, Hearing to Sustainability
In the previous post I pitted my Kindle against a book that is a minor masterpiece of eighteenth-century typography: John Baskerville’s 1760 edition of the Book of Common Prayer. I promise I went into this Battle of the Book-Related Christmas Presents with no preconceptions … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Baskerville, Book of Common Prayer, Books, Codex, E-books, Gutenberg, I hate my Kindle, I love my Kindle, Kindle, Multimodality
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Page against the machine 3 – less transparent books?
How can publishers create radically new products if their management structures and internal power relations remain the same? I can’t remember seeing any discussion of this in the trade press – Tim Oliver’s post in The Bookseller’s Futurebook web spinout is the exception … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Books, Codex, Creativity, Derrida, E-books, Management, Publishing, XML
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