Book City Jackets— Printed at a small press in downtown New York, these lovely “updated versions of the classic paperbag bookcover” are made from recycled paper and sized to fit almost any book (pictured above). And they have a blog! (via swissmiss & Design*Sponge).
Near Heretical — The inimitable Mike Shatkin on the story of DRM.
Don’t kill me, Robert Bringhurst — Nic Boshart, BookNet Canada intern and coordinating editor at Invisible Publishing, offers another nice round-up of lessons for small presses from the BookNet Tech Forum.
Wish you were here — Seen Reading‘s collaborative Google map of independent bookstores.
That elusive viral component — Wired on Random House, Simon & Schuster, Workman Publishing Co., Berrett-Koehler, Thomas Nelson, and Manning Publications making e-books and excerpts available on Scribd:
For book publishers, Scribd is not the only platform they are utilizing with the rising e-book hype, but the viral components are limited elsewhere… Along with navigation features like search and zoom, the books can be download (as a .pdf) and viewed on compatible e-book readers or shared across numerous social networks including Digg, Facebook and Twitter.
“The YouTube for print” — PW has more on Scribd.
Sony e-book reader gets 500,000 books from Google, but Sara Nelson doesn’t think it will be enough in the LA Times:
2 CommentsSony seems, instead, to be hitting hard on the theme that it’s giving options to publishers, who have not been shy about their complicated feelings toward Amazon and the power it wields.
Making public domain books more available is all to the good. But at the moment, Sony’s move appears to be too little, too late.
