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• US Warns Apple, Publishers – Wallstreet

  Posted at 11:38 am by Laura, on March 9, 2012

  U.S. Warns Apple, Publishers – Wallstreet Journal – Thomas Catan & Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg

  The Justice Department has warned Apple Inc. and five of the biggest U.S. publishers that it plans to sue them for allegedly colluding to raise the price of electronic books, according to people familiar with the matter.

  …

  The Justice Department believes that Apple and the publishers acted in concert to raise prices across the industry, and is prepared to sue them for violating federal antitrust laws, the people familiar with the matter said.

  This article details the digital history between Apple and publishers, the changes both have made for purchasing digital books, and what the Justice Department believes should be done.

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• E-Books on Tablets Fight Digital Distractions – NYTimes

  Posted at 8:43 pm by Laura, on March 6, 2012

  E-Books on Tablets Fight Digital Distractions – New York Times – Julie Bosman & Matt Richtel

  People who read e-books on tablets like the iPad are realizing that while a book in print or on a black-and-white Kindle is straightforward and immersive, a tablet offers a menu of distractions that can fragment the reading experience, or stop it in its tracks.

  Interesting article! Be sure to read both pages.

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• Charlotte Brontë’s lost manuscript “L’Ingratitude” to be published

  Posted at 8:23 am by Laura, on February 29, 2012

  

  London Review of Books: Charlotte Brontë’s lost manuscript L’Ingratitude – available to read in French and English

  The Guardian: Charlotte Brontë’s lost short story to be published

  A long-lost short story written by Charlotte Brontë for a married man with whom she fell in love is to be published for the first time after being found in a Belgian museum a century after it was last heard of.

  The tale, written in grammatically erratic French and entitled L’Ingratitude, is the first-known piece of homework set for Brontë by Constantin Heger, a Belgian tutor who taught both her and her sister Emily, and is believed to have inspired such ardour in the elder sibling that she drew on their relationship for her novel Villette.

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• The Beauty of the Printed Book – NYTimes

  Posted at 5:16 pm by Laura, on February 15, 2012

  The Beauty of the Printed Book – New York Times – Alice Rawsthorn

  Anyone who wishes to be reminded of quite how beguiling old-fashioned books can be should visit “The Printed Book: A Visual History,” an exhibition running through May 13 at the Special Collections department of the University of Amsterdam. Drawn from the university’s book collection, which is among the world’s finest, the exhibition traces the evolution of book design through some of the most compellingly designed books of the last 500 years.

  …

  Even the bibliophiles at Steidl expect e-books to continue to grow, largely at the expense of printed books. For starters, they are incredibly convenient. Just think of the hundreds of e-books you can pack on to a single digital device. They are environmentally responsible: saving trees from being felled to produce paper, and fossil fuel from being burned to transport boxes of books. Interactive books can also dazzle their readers with sound, film clips, animations and data visualizations as well as words and images. And if their readers are puzzled by a word or factual reference, they can check it on the Internet within seconds.

  Yet so far, the design of e-books has been disappointing. Most of them look suspiciously as though their publishers have simply shunted their contents from print on to the screen. But some of the newer titles are more promising, largely because their designers have explored the technical and aesthetic possibilities of the new media.

  …

  Yet there is still something very special about an adroitly designed printed book, perhaps because it is so simple and devoid of technological trickery.

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• The Greatest Books of All Time – The Atlantic

  Posted at 6:07 pm by Laura, on February 2, 2012

  The Greatest Books of All Time, as Voted by 125 Famous Authors – The Atlantic – Maria Popova

  The requirements, or setting, for the list:

  “If you’re putting together a list of ‘the greatest books,’ you’ll want to do two things: (1) out of kindness, avoid anyone working on a novel; and (2) decide what the word ‘great’ means. The first part is easy, but how about the second? A short list of possible definitions of ‘greatness’ might look like this:

  1. ‘Great’ means ‘books that have been greatest for me.’

  2. ‘Great’ means ‘books that would be considered great by the most people over time.’

  3. ‘Great’ has nothing to do with you or me—or people at all. It involves transcendental concepts like God or the Sublime.

  4. ‘Great’? I like Tom Clancy. “

  Some of the books that make it include

  • The Great Gatsby
  • Great Expectations
  • Emma
  • Anna Karenina

  Several categories too!!! This was really neat. Check it out!

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• B&N Will Not Stock Titles Published by Amazon – PW

  Posted at 11:30 pm by Laura, on January 31, 2012

  Barnes & Noble Will Not Stock Titles Published by Amazon – Publisher’s Weekly

  THIS JUST IN. Short, sweet, to the point.

   

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• Why to Read Dickens Now – TimeEntertainment

  Posted at 7:15 pm by Laura, on January 31, 2012

  Why to Read Dickens Now (Or Watch Him on TV) – TIME Entertainment – Radhika Jones

  When Charles Dickens began writing his first novel—in 1836, the year before Victoria took the throne—the literacy rate in England was less than 50 percent. By the end of her reign, in 1901, it was 97 percent. More than any writer of the time, Dickens helped close that gap. He did it by publishing stories that people desperately wanted to read and creating a market for thousands of other writers to do the same.

  It’s only fitting that so many of Dickens’ novels, which I’ve been reading and rereading in advance of his Feb. 7 bicentenary, involve plots or subplots or scenes that pivot on learning and literacy.

  …

  Nobody writes like Dickens anymore. There are authors who write as well or better, but they do it differently. Tastes change, and a truly Dickensian 21st century novel would be as weird a cultural experience as a sudden rash of non-ironic Mondrians. But a lot of the expectations contemporary readers have when we pick up a novel are the ones the great 19th century novelists — Austen, Dickens, Eliot — established for us. Perhaps the most important one is that, even after all the dissonances of modernism and post-modernism, the majority of readers still expect a novel to be satisfying, whether it’s a mystery or a romance or science fiction, whether it ends with a birth, a marriage or a death.

  Really fascinating piece on Dickens and his work!

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• B&N, Taking on Amazon in the Fight of its Life – NYTimes

  Posted at 2:21 pm by Laura, on January 29, 2012

  Barnes & Nobel, Taking on Amazon in the Fight of its Life – New York Times – Julie Bosman

  Like many struggling businesses, book publishers are cutting costs and trimming work forces. Yes, electronic books are booming, sometimes profitably, but not many publishers want e-books to dominate print books. Amazon’s chief executive, Jeffrey P. Bezos, wants to cut out the middleman — that is, traditional publishers — by publishing e-books directly.

  Which is why Barnes & Noble, once viewed as the brutal capitalist of the book trade, now seems so crucial to that industry’s future. Sure, you can buy bestsellers at Walmart and potboilers at the supermarket. But in many locales, Barnes & Noble is the only retailer offering a wide selection of books. If something were to happen to Barnes & Noble, if it were merely to scale back its ambitions, Amazon could become even more powerful and — well, the very thought makes publishers queasy.

  “It would be like ‘The Road,’ ” one publishing executive in New York said, half-jokingly, referring to the Cormac McCarthy novel. “The post-apocalyptic world of publishing, with publishers pushing shopping carts down Broadway.”

  I laughed at that last comment, but it really is a Doomsday approach. B&N v Amazon, with publishers siding a chain bookstore. Oh, so complicated. What do you think? Be sure to read the whole story – it’s pretty extensive.

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• An excellent review of ‘Jane Eyre’ tribute!

  Posted at 6:26 pm by Laura, on January 23, 2012

  In my first “Upcoming Books!” post, I had mentioned a book out tomorrow/Tuesday that all Brontë lovers would hopefully enjoy. “The Flight of Gemma Hardy” by Margot Livesey received a great review from The Boston Globe, and it has calmed my classic literature fears. Normally I veer away from rewritings, adaptations, offsprings, and homages to classic works, but apparently this particular novel is up to par! Read on to see what Meredith Maran has to say about the book.

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• ‘Hunger Games’ Book Sales Bode Well for the Film – NYTimes

  Posted at 6:15 pm by Laura, on January 23, 2012

  ‘Hunger Games’ Book Sales Bode Well for the Film – The New York Times – Brooks Barnes

  Lionsgate’s movie adaptation of “The Hunger Games” does not arrive in theaters until March 23 — still too far away for analysts to predict ticket revenue. But if spiking sales of the books are any indication, Lionsgate’s marketing efforts are whipping up a five-alarm box-office fire.

  Sometimes my heart breaks a little when I see a beloved book turned into a movie. But when I read about news like this – that millions more are bought and read prior to the installment of the movie, my heart soars! I’m excited for all the new fans.

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