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Science, publishing and writing style
Two examples of each today, and some ideas about outreach, power and sustainability: 1. Cambridge, UK, home of Propagandum Towers and a university or two, every year hosts an excellent science festival. For two weeks thousands of people teaching and learning heavy-duty … Continue reading
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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Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist (exhibition review) #2
This excellent exhibition (in the Queen’s Gallery, London) has some fascinatingly different stories to tell of Leonardo’s extraordinary anatomical sketches. We can have our interpretations on the surface or we can dig for them, depending on whether we like our versions … Continue reading
Posted in Art criticism, Business, Media analysis, Medicine, Publishing
Tagged Anatomy, Apps, Information design, iPad, Leonardo da Vinci, Publishing, Queen's Gallery, Royal Collection, Theory of medicine
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Baskerville versus the Kindle, Round 1: Seeing
I have been very kindly (Kindley?) given a Kindle for Christmas. Yes, I haven’t previously given the e-book phenomenon a good writeup. So this is a very good chance to get off some of my high horses and simply try to find … Continue reading
Posted in Publishing
Tagged Baskerville, Book of Common Prayer, Books, Codex, E-books, Etymologicon, I hate my Kindle, I love my Kindle, Kindle, Publishing
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‘A page of good prose remains invincible’ 2
Craig Raine ’s title poem ‘A Martian Sends a Postcard Home’ (Oxford University Press, 1979, p. 1) is an attempt at ‘making strange’ the old-known so it becomes the new-known. We look at the world through the eyes of an alien. If … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Publishing
Tagged Books, Bridget Riley, Codex, Communication, Duchamp, E-books, Publishing, Theory of publishing, Typography
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‘A page of good prose remains invincible’ 1
On April 27, 1982, less than two months before his death from cancer, John Cheever appeared at Carnegie Hall to accept the National Medal for Literature. While his colleagues stood and cheered (“John had nothing but friends,” said Malcolm Cowley), … Continue reading
Posted in Publishing, Writing
Tagged Books, Cheever, Codex, E-books, Page, Publishing, Reading, Writing
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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
Posted in Publishing
Tagged Amazon, Books, Codex, Creativity, Derrida, E-books, Management, Publishing, XML
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Page against the machine 2 – a sledgehammer without a nut
In my previous post, I suggested that some multifactorial analysis of previous technological innovations would suggest what is going to happen when publishing companies bang up against the digital content agenda driven by the powerful US techno-behemoths. ‘Multifactorial’ here simply … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Publishing
Tagged Books, Codex, Corporatespeak, Creativity, Derrida, E-books, Enzensberger, Foucault, Herzog, Media, Power, Production, Publishing, XML
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Page against the machine 1 – Derrida and the great CD-ROM disaster
While the form of the ‘book’ is now going through a period of general upheaval, and while that form now appears less natural, and its history less transparent than ever, and while one cannot tamper with it without disturbing everything … Continue reading
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Tagged Commercial, Communication, Derrida, E-books, Media, Printing, Publishing, Shakespeare, Theory of publishing
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