August 9, 2012
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Financial Times reporter Barney Jopson recently talked to Leonard Lopate about Amazon, and how the company has evolved from a retailer to “an infrastructure services company”, on WNYC: WNYC LEONARD LOPATE: Understanding Amazon mp3 Jopson, who has written a series of … Continue reading
July 12, 2011
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Here’s a wonderful Etsy video about Brazenhead Books, a secret secondhand bookstore located in Michael Seidenberg’s apartment on the Upper East Side, New York: (Thanks Kate!)
January 28, 2009
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John Updike (pictured) has died at 76. The Guardian and the New York Times look back at his life and career in pictures. Designer Observer points to ‘Deceptively Conceptual’ Updike’s astute 2005 essay on book covers for the New Yorker: Publishing … Continue reading
January 21, 2009
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The Books are alright — Montreal’s Hugh McGuire (of LibriVox and Book Oven) on the Penguin-sponsored BookCamp in London: If the amount of thought and enthusiasm generated that day — and evening — is any indication, I think we’re going … Continue reading
December 10, 2008
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NPR’s Best Graphic Novels of 2008 include Josh Cotter’s Skyscrapers of the Midwest, Local by Brian Wood and Ryan Kelly, Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s Goodbye, and Alan’s War by Emmanuel Guibert (pictured). There’s an excerpt available of each book selected. Nice. (Thanks … Continue reading