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Nice conceptual book cover, via Book Design Review. Literary aspirations can be a heavy burden indeed. .
The Association of American Publishers reported on Monday that book sales rose 7.2 percent in January, with adult paperback sales showing the largest increase, an astonishing 37.6 percent….
An early printed bilingual dictionary, the Vocabularium Rerum provided German readers with the meanings of common Latin words and phrases. This edition (photo from Helga’s Lobster Stew’s photostream)…
Fake memoirs are in the news again, with the usual hand wringing. No need to go into the details, which have been thoroughly reported. Instead, let’s think about…
That’s just one of the titles shortlisted for The Bookseller‘s Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year. The full list of candidates: I Was Tortured By…
So the digital age brings us full circle, back to the serial publishing of the Victorian era. Random House has announced that it will test selling books by…
Ellen M. Kozak has written a nice summary at Wisconsin Lawyer about “Spotting the Publishing Scam.” You can read the full post there, but I think it’s worth…
On Fishing is a good example of a mostly typographic cover that is distinctive, noticeable, and instantly conveys a sense of the book. The graceful loops of the…
I’ve been surveying the state of independent book publishing. We looked at the changeover from the old system that was characterized by a diverse group of robust independent…
It’s time to get back to the discussion of the dilemma of independent book publishing, following holidays that were more disruptive than I anticipated. This project began when…
It’s easy to get so immersed in a subject that you lose track of how much of it is generally known. I’ve been talking about the difficulties of…
Recently there has been an increase in calls for the inclusion of ads in printed books (this “On the Media” report, for example, touches on the idea). There’s…
Yourshelves.com is a project of kimbooktu, who explains: I collect pictures of libraries of ordinary people. People who love to read – and collect – books from all…
I missed the discussion about this book cover during the accompanying exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, last summer. Clearly the provocative cover image of…
Jeff Barry has completed an interesting project of culling his blog archives to produce a free e-book, called Buenos Aires, City of Faded Elegance. He explains: Whenever I…
BLURB: A brief noise that embarrasses everyone. — Tom’s Glossary of Book Publishing Terms A curious aspect of book publishing is that publishers have never quite figured out…
and Brian Dettmer is performing the autopsy. LINKS (the first three are the artist’s galleries) Packer Schopf Gallery Toomey-Tourell Gallery Haydee Rovirosa Gallery 3 Percent: The Most Unusual…
Since I posted about the best magazine covers of the year, why not have a look at book covers too? When I first saw this selection of “the…
Five publishing conglomerates now control 80 percent of book publishing industry sales. The big fish are Bertelsmann, Viacom, Longman-Pearson, News Corporation, and Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. Bertelsmann, based…
It is now possible for anyone to print a book fairly inexpensively, using services such as Lulu or Blurb. Of course, printing should be distinguished from publishing, which…
Since posting is light while I’m traveling, I think it’s time to devote another link to Bibliodyssey, that great ongoing compendium of book arts through the ages. This…
Candida Höfer‘s photographs of Portuguese libraries, now on display at the Sonnabend Gallery, 536 West 22nd Street in NYC, presents libraries as places of opulence. In these settings…
Has the Chicken Soup for the Soul series been exhausted? I think not! There is one obvious title that has been overlooked, and it’s a book I’ve been…
If you are quixotic enough to wish to engage in literary book publishing, you might want to take a look at the sales figures for the Man Booker…