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Link Post-Artifact Books and Publishing
We will always debate: the quality of the paper, the pixel density of the display; the cloth used on covers, the interface for highlighting; location by page, location by paragraph.…

June 15 2011, 8:50am | Comments
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March 2 2011, 7:49am | Comments
Link The lost art of editing
But what happens the rest of the time? Away from the world of freak glitches, what fate befalls the writer as his or her magnum opus enters the publishing production…

February 15 2011, 4:32am | Comments
Link The Novel is not under threat from technology
One of the first things I did with my palm-sized glossy black pebble of the future was to download loads of free books using the app Stanza. I read The…

January 10 2011, 4:34am | Comments
Link Do writers need paper?
Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world. Once the…

October 24 2010, 5:05pm | Comments
Link Night Waves: Is the Book Dead?
Philip Dodd goes to one of Britain's largest second hand bookshops and is joined by a panel of publishers, authors and an audience of readers for a public debate that…

October 21 2010, 3:10am | Comments
Link What Are Books Good For?
I've been wondering lately when books became the enemy. Scholars have always been people of the book, so it seems wrong that the faithful companion has been put on the…

September 30 2010, 4:23pm | Comments
Link Mao, King Kong, and the Future of the…
In 2004, Bob Stein founded the Institute for the Future of the Book, with the goal of finding new models for publishing as it moved from the page to the…

September 8 2010, 3:37am | Comments
Link Cover story
In the beginning, before there was such a thing as a Gutenberg Bible, Johannes Gutenberg laid out his rows of metal type and brushed them with ink and, using the…

September 1 2010, 11:16am | Comments
Link Goodbye to the Graphosphere
For half a millennium, across continents and civilizations, the human readership did almost nothing but grow and consolidate itself. Constantly more people in more and more places could read, and…

July 17 2010, 12:36pm | Comments
Link The iPad, the Kindle, and the future of…
Traditionally, publishers have sold books to stores, with the wholesale price for hardcovers set at fifty per cent of the cover price. Authors are paid royalties at a rate of…

April 21 2010, 4:10am | Comments
Link Publishing: The Revolutionary Future
Though Gutenberg's invention made possible our modern world with all its wonders and woes, no one, much less Gutenberg himself, could have foreseen that his press would have this effect.…

February 24 2010, 10:51am | Comments
Metafilter Innovative Book Designs Innovative Books: I am looking to compile a list of the most innovative uses of the book format. Books that break the mould in their layout and design,…

November 1 2009, 5:37am | Comments
Link Serpentine Gallery: Poetry Marathon - Saturday and Sunday,…
Tickets £25/£20 (two day) £15/£10 (one day) Available from the Gallery Lobby Desk or Ticketweb: 08444 77 1000 www.ticketweb.co.uk The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009 is an open-air structure, so please…

October 15 2009, 8:04am | Comments
Link Fictional Stimulus
Fictional Stimulus is a reading experience for people who like books and are curious about the future of literature in the digital world. It's an introductory taster for those new…

September 28 2009, 8:54am | Comments
Link HOW TO: Write a Novel Using the Web
Though you’ll still have to do your writing using the old fashioned method — one word at a time — web applications and social media have made the process of…

September 17 2009, 12:27am | Comments

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