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One E-book Enhancement I’d Really Like to See
Editor in Chief, Edward Nawotka, discusses his relationship with books and the one e-book enhancement that has yet to be developed.
Geraldine Brooks to US Writers: “Foreign Countries Exist”
In her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks notes a parochialism in American writing.
Two Inspiring Bookstore Videos
Moving pictures worth far more than 1,000 words.
Happy Fourth of July!: What Is In Your Book Bag this Holiday Weekend?
Do you spend your holiday’s buried in an easy mystery, a light romance, or a great classic?
Read This: Tim Parks on Stamm’s European Economy and Franzen’s American Excess
By Edward Nawotka The New York Review of Books has an intriguing essay by Tim Parks about the differences between the European and American sensibility in writing fiction, with a focus on the work of Swiss writer Peter Stamm and the American Jonathan Franzen: Parks begins… I’m English and live in Italy. During March, within two or three days of …
A Perfect Example of Video That Could Work for Enhanced E-books (via the UK and Sweden)
By Edward Nawotka Video and film is a tricky format, especially for book publishers who are working in the medium. When it comes to “enhancing e-books” publishers need to be careful. The enhancements shouldn’t interrupt the text or repeat it, but offer a lateral view of the subject at hand – a genuine enhancement – rather than the core material …
Last Year on PP: Germany’s Answer to Google, Irish Pub News, Kindle Still “Good Enough”
By Edward Nawotka A year ago this week, we covered the… launch of the DDB, the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB) — the German Digital Library — which planned to connect the databases of 30,000 German cultural and academic organizations and create an Internet portal that would be available to all German citizens. In November and again in mid-December, the DDB announced …
Smack Talk: Millions of Kindles Sold in last 73 Days; B&N Counters Nook’s the “Best”
By Edward Nawotka When my 15-year-old nephew, a freshman in high school, turned to me at dinner on Saturday night and asked which Kindle he should get for class — I knew the device had “tipped.” (He is choosing between a Kindle 2 for $89, having rejecting my offer to give him my Kindle 1, and a new NookColor). But …
More from Guadalajara (FIL): Tequila, Models and the Future of Spanish
By Edward Nawotka You might think a book fair is a book fair is a book fair, but I have to say that my first visit to Guadalajara has left a strong impression. Not only are there significantly more publishers from smaller Central American nations than I’ve ever seen before — Nicaragua, Guatemala, Costa Rica — as well as places …