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STEPHEN KING
Stephen King soon evolved into a game of hide and scream. One of us would hide on the other and then jump from the hiding place and scream, Stephen King. And Stephen King was also a game of whispers. If my wife dozed off in the living room on a given night, I would whisper in her ear, over and over, until she would wake, Stephen King, Stephen King, Stephen King.
Our kids play Stephen King now more than we do. Just last weekend I overheard our daughters jumping rope in the garage. They sang a little rhyme over and over as they jumped. The rhyme went like this:
http://kenyonreview.org/blog/?p=7992
Our kids play Stephen King now more than we do. Just last weekend I overheard our daughters jumping rope in the garage. They sang a little rhyme over and over as they jumped. The rhyme went like this:
Stephen King, Stephen King.
You’re afraid of everything.
Stephen King, Stephen King.
You’re afraid of everything.
You’re afraid of everything.
Stephen King, Stephen King.
You’re afraid of everything.
http://kenyonreview.org/blog/?p=7992
bookshelves that reject all books except those the manufacturer has blessed
Devices like the iPad and the Kindle are a wholly new kind of thing — they function like bookshelves that reject all books except those the manufacturer has blessed.
There's an easy way to change this, of course. Just tell Apple it can't license your copyrights—that is, your books—unless the company gives you the freedom to give your readers the freedom to take their products with them to any vendor's system. You'd never put up with these lockdown shenanigans from a hardcopy retailer or distributor, and you shouldn't take it from Apple, either, and that goes for Amazon and the Kindle, too.
This is exactly what I've done. I won't sell my e-books in any store that locks my users into a vendor's platform.
Cory Doctorow http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/456751-Can_You_Survive_a_Benevolent_Dictatorship_.php
There's an easy way to change this, of course. Just tell Apple it can't license your copyrights—that is, your books—unless the company gives you the freedom to give your readers the freedom to take their products with them to any vendor's system. You'd never put up with these lockdown shenanigans from a hardcopy retailer or distributor, and you shouldn't take it from Apple, either, and that goes for Amazon and the Kindle, too.
This is exactly what I've done. I won't sell my e-books in any store that locks my users into a vendor's platform.
Cory Doctorow http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/456751-Can_You_Survive_a_Benevolent_Dictatorship_.php
24.4.10
Unieni uutistoimisto tiedottaa
Jos Jaffa on appelsiinilimonadi, silloin Hoffa on savumakkaralimonadi.
23.4.10
Seven Thoughts on the Return of Godspeed You! Black Emperor
One reason no one has filled the void Godspeed left is that no one else could gain a foothold while simultaneously coming over as so pretentious. I have no reason to think the band members aren't all good people, but in terms of presentation, these guys get away with murder, and it's wonderful. For one, there are the melodramatic communications, which tend to situate the band as sick and victimized and hanging by a thread as the late-capitalist apocalypse draws near. The monologue that opened f#a#∞, with its Lee Marvin-like character describing scenes where mothers clutch babies and we are all trapped inside a horrible machine that is bleeding to death, was the ideal introduction. The kind of mayhem that monologue describes really does happen, every day, but Godspeed's thing has always been to insert their music into the middle of it, so it seemed like they were soundtracking the disaster from the inside, like the string section sawing away on the deck of the Titanic. So their "image," whatever that might mean for a band that really has done everything for itself, seems as well-honed and clear as anything a marketing team might come up with. But they also gave pretension a good name, as they built their own world with clear aesthetic and political values and then invited you to come join them inside. Plenty of bands are down to earth and chill and going with the flow, but Godspeed are on another trip, and they're loved for it.
http://pitchfork.com/features/resonant-frequency/7796-resonant-frequency-69/
http://pitchfork.com/features/resonant-frequency/7796-resonant-frequency-69/
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Fuzzy Nation
http://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/04/07/the-super-secret-thing-that-i-cannot-tell-you-about-revealed-introducing-fuzzy-nation/
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24/7 Relentless Careerism
You ought to write poems that scare or challenge no one, poems that are speckled with the kind of folksy charm people like in politicians.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/article.html?id=238942&page=2
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/article.html?id=238942&page=2
8.4.10
Publishers + Ebooks = Epic Fail
You'd think the NY publisher would cream the single guy in terms of sales. But they didn't. Not only did I double the sales of my publisher, but I made more money per book. Hell, I sold more ebooks than they sold print books and ebooks combined. Don't you think there's something amiss in the universe when a midlist author can make more money on his own than he can with a big publisher? http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/04/publishers-ebooks-epic-fail.html
Printfetish.com
News, information, reviews and history on the subjects of beautiful magazines, self-published 'zines, handmade books, small press, comix, art books and miscellaneous printed ephemera.
http://printfetish.com/
http://printfetish.com/
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How the Paperback Novel Changed Popular Literature
With its quality fare and fine design, Penguin revolutionized paperback publishing, but these were not the first soft-cover books. The Venetian printer and publisher Aldus Manutius had tried unsuccessfully to publish some in the 16th century, and dime novels, or “penny dreadfuls” –lurid romances published in double columns and considered trashy by the respectable houses, were sold in Britain before the Penguins. Until Penguin, quality books, and books whose ink did not stain one's hands, were available only in hardcover. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/How-the-Paperback-Novel-Changed-Popular-Literature.html
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