The Wall Street Journal had the main story which most bloggers played off, with these interesting details: While Mr. Palma didn’t go into details, users of Google Editions would be able to read books from a web browser—meaning that the type of e-reader device wouldn’t matter. The company also could build software to optimize reading… Continue reading Google Editions to premiere this Summer
Printers’ Playground
A playground in the Bronx, near the site of the original Robert Hoe factory (when it moved to the Bronx from its original location in lower Manhattan) will get a playground with jungle gym reminiscent of the old Hoe rotary presses (example shown at right). For bibliophiles, Robert Hoe built an extraordinary library in late… Continue reading Printers’ Playground
G & C Merriam wholesale and retail book trade archive dispersal
Steve Ferguson of Princeton University Library talks about the dispersal of the unusual and research-valuable G. & C. Merriam archive. http://blogs.princeton.edu/rarebooks/2010/04/dispersal_of_a_book_trade_arch.html
Art conservation, publicity and the Met: Revisited
The Picasso painting, “The Actor,” damaged by an anonymous woman who fell into it, was returned to the public galleries by the Met’s Conservation Department. The Times has an short article, with these nice details: The conservators had to act quickly because canvases, like people, “have a memory,” she explained. That is, the torn portion… Continue reading Art conservation, publicity and the Met: Revisited
More on Button Gwinett
More from Jeremy Dibbell at Philobiblos.
E-Book Dodge (Randy Cohen on eBooks)
Randy Cohen’s Ethicist in the NY Times Magazine responds to a reader who asks about buying a hardcover when he really wanted an eBook edition, and then downloading a pirated eBook copy. Update: 4/9/10: The Bookfinder blog adds more to the discussion, quoting from author John Scalzi’s blog.
The iPad a reader (Laura Miller at Salon)
Jeremy Dibbell at Philobiblos links to Laura Miller’s Salon review on using the iPad as a reader.
Nicholas Carr on the iPad reader and eBook reader
Nicholas Carr argues: the model of book reading (and hence book writing) the iPad promotes seems fated, in time, to become the dominant one. The book itself, in this model, becomes an app, a multihypermediated experience to click through rather than a simple sequence of pages to read through. And he cites John Makinson of… Continue reading Nicholas Carr on the iPad reader and eBook reader
The Texas state Textbook commission social studies changes
The Washington Post has an article about the Texas state social studies textbook changes. In the Texas textbook Commision mandates debate, there’s an interesting comment from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: One publisher said Tuesday that changes in technology, including the introduction of online components, make it easier and cheaper to tailor textbooks to specific states and… Continue reading The Texas state Textbook commission social studies changes
Museums Special Section – The New Generation of Museum Curators – NYTimes.com
Museums Special Section – The New Generation of Museum Curators – NYTimes.com An interesting piece in the special Museums section in the NYT on young curators: “Museums are safe harbors in this difficult economic time,” said Glenn D. Lowry, director of the MoMA, who said that Mr. Roy was one of a growing number of… Continue reading Museums Special Section – The New Generation of Museum Curators – NYTimes.com