The book and commerce
Nostalgia on the bookshelf: Richard Nash reviews The Late Age of Print. (Via.)
Nostalgia on the bookshelf: Richard Nash reviews The Late Age of Print. (Via.)
Lethem, Chabon, and other members of the National Coalition of Authors oppose Google Book Search on privacy grounds.
Harper’s has posted video of an old Mary Gaitskill reading from her 1994 essay “On not being a victim.” (Via.)
Even as the printing press was taking hold, the Abbot of Sponheim urged his monks to keep copying texts by hand. The written word on parchment, he said, would last a thousand years, whereas words printed on paper were cheap and fleeting. His argument has echoes in the ebooks debate. But somehow rigorous prose withstood the demise of parchment — . . .
Peter Carey tells John Freeman about his next novel, Parrot and Olivier in America, which is excerpted in Granta.