Monthly Archives: April 2012

Books I’m Reading

Posted on April 30, 2012 by

It was to be Adam Freedman’s The Party of the First Part: The Curious World of Legalese followed by Noah Feldman’s Divided by God: America’s Church-State Problem then. What a coincidence as both books lead me to talk about their ink. Freedman’s book is in blue … Continue reading →

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Views by Country

Posted on April 28, 2012 by

A while ago, I think on February 25th of this year to be precise, WordPress rolled out its “view by country” feature to track the visitors to your site. You know, the thing that looks like this when you click … Continue reading →

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Publishing: Adapt or Die

Posted on April 27, 2012 by

On the Media, a National Public Radio program, just had its annual show reporting on the state of on the publishing industry. Have a listen to such interesting pieces as How Publishing and Reading is Changing (did you know that the … Continue reading →

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Supreme Court Will Hear Case on Importation and the First Sale Doctrine

Posted on April 27, 2012 by

The Supreme Court has announced that it will hear arguments in the Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons case. The case is about the ability of lawful owners of foreign-manufactured copyrighted materials to resell, rent, lease, and lend said materials in the … Continue reading →

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Cultural Osmosis: The Loud Bookstore

Posted on April 26, 2012 by

After reading in Flavorwire that LA’s The Last Bookstore is one of ”20 most beautiful bookstores in the world”, I eagerly went to  ”ooah” and “ahhh” at the place. After an hour of braving LA traffic, LA drivers, and LA freeway interchanges, I found myself … Continue reading →

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Fun and Cool Facts

Posted on April 25, 2012 by

Bowker’s, “the world’s leading provider of bibliographic information management solutions”, puts out a bunch of press releases with super interesting factoids. For instance, it publicized the 2010-11 U.S. Book Consumer Demographics and Buying Behaviors Annual Review‘s finding that 2010 is … Continue reading →

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Short Changing Wikipedia

Posted on April 24, 2012 by

What if I were to propose to you a scheme in which you can short change a public-minded institution, engage in a little intellectual dishonesty, and yet feel superior and elitist at the same time? I think I’ve hit on … Continue reading →

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Longest Copyright Notice by Far!

Posted on April 23, 2012 by

Ever since I read Jason Mazzone’s Copyfraud, I’ve taken to looking at copyright notices in books more closely to see if I can spot instances of copyright overreach that Mazzone noted (and denounced). I’ve seen the usual “All rights reserved. No … Continue reading →

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The Rise of e-reading

Posted on April 20, 2012 by

The Pew Research Center recently released results from a survey that asks 3000 Americans aged 16 and older about their e-reading habits. Among the report highlights are the following tidbits: “A fifth of American adults have read an e-book in the past … Continue reading →

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Newspapers, Paywalls, and Core Users

Posted on April 20, 2012 by

(Manually) reblogged from Clay Shirky: This may be the year where newspapers finally drop the idea of treating all news as a product, and all readers as customers . . . Paywalls were an attempt to preserve the old mass [readers] … Continue reading →

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