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Midweek Miscellany

December 23, 2009

Reading a Book is Reading a Book — Peter Ginna has another thoughtful post on about the Random House e-book rights controversy (which better articulates some of what I was trying to get at here). A Decade of Fear — David Ulin, book editor of The LA Times, looks back at the last 10 years [...]

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A Question

December 18, 2009

I’ve been staying clear of the publishing shit-storm du jour — Random House’s claim to backlist e-book rights and Stephen Covey’s decision to sell exclusive digital rights to two of his bestselling books to Amazon rather than his traditional publisher Simon & Schuster — because I simply don’t know enough about rights. But, Peter Ginna, [...]

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Missed Things: Friday

October 16, 2009

Floating — Toronto illustrator Michael Cho on his cover art and interior illustrations for The Amazing Absorbing Boy by Rabindranath Maharaj (published by Random House Canada). The Ideal Studio Library — It’s Nice That interviews designer Jason Godfrey about his beautiful new book Bibiographic: 100 Classic Graphic Design Books, published by Laurence King,  (and yes, [...]

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Sunnyside

September 24, 2009

I just picked up  copy of Glen David Gold’s most recent novel Sunnyside. Book Covers Anonymous gave the British cover — with a whimsical illustration by Adam Simpson — some love back in July, but I think I prefer this lovely elegant, and understated cover by Megan Wilson for the US edition published by Knopf: [...]

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Midweek Miscellany, May 13th, 2009

May 13, 2009

“Any colour, so long as it’s grey” — New typographic covers for the Faber editions of Samuel Beckett,  designed by London-based studio A2/SW/HK. You can see more from the series at Faber’s Flickr photostream. The Publishers’ Dilemma — Tobias Schirmer on publishing’s digital future: [D]igitalization is not about a product moving from its analogue to [...]

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