Sherwin Siy has a post that helpfully updates us all on the latest twists and turns in Google’s attempts to license the entirety of printed publishing (or as close as it can get to that, anyway)… more →
A Cultural Policy Blogwrote 2 days ago: Personally, I don’t see how the book or magazine or newspaper as it exists today can be improv … more →
wrote 1 week ago: Well, that was an annoying ride. I mean the seemingly endless saga of achieving the possibilty of Ki … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Before Jacques Derrida died, he used to teach a yearly seminar for grad students at New York Univers … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Want to self publish? How about Harlequin? Harlequin is starting a a package service for self publis … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Sherwin Siy has a post that helpfully updates us all on the latest twists and turns in Google’ … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Below are links to six articles; I’ve assigned one person to each article. There’s no pa … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Philip Roth. Image from The Guardian / Orjan F Ellingvag / Dagbladet / Corbis. Philip Roth is not my … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Now that most of my research on the future of books is done, it time to start thinking about an effe … more →
wrote 2 months ago: The good folk at QLD Writers Centre have set sail on a blog tour from October to December this year, … more →
wrote 3 months ago: The recent announcement by Amazon that it will release an international version of the Kindle has ta … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Molti chiamano l’estate appena conclusa “summer of death“; e in effetti ci hanno s … more →
wrote 3 months ago: The New York Times is reporting that the Google book settlement has been delayed by the judge, perha … more →
wrote 3 months ago: If you’ve every read The End of Books by Robert Coover, you know that in the essay Coover talk … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Do you own a Sony Reader…or Cooler…or any ebook reader besides a Kindle?! And you want t … more →
wrote 3 months ago: 4 Things to know about me and books…. 1. I have hundreds books in my personal library, and thi … more →
wrote 3 months ago: In Fairfax’s relaunched National Times, Guy Rundle has a perceptive essay on the unsustainabil … more →
wrote 4 months ago: General Thoughts: It would be hard to believe a couple of years ago that you would be able to predic … more →
wrote 4 months ago: Geoffrey Nunberg thinks so. Writing in the Chronicle of Higher Education, he points out the many app … more →
wrote 4 months ago: In today’s Australian newspaper, Susan Hayes from the Literature Board of the Australia Counci … more →