Friday, October 31, 2008

Is the era of the print newspaper coming to an end?

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Lost in the glut of dismal news and the world's preoccupation with the US presidential election campaign is a week's worth of bad ti...
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Latest from Spy Mouse

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Spy Mouse has emerged from a summer of reading books (and castles in Italy may have had something to do with it, too). The whisper, it seem...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008

New series on women scientists

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In the harbinger of what promises to be remarkably successful venture, book distributor Beagle Bay of Nevada has just announced that one of...
Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Tony Hillerman passes away

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Sadly, the great mystery writer Tony Hillerman has died at the age of 83, and Ron and I have read the last of his wonderful books. Though C...
Saturday, October 25, 2008

A book jacket that breathes

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It's funny, but you never think much about breathing. Until it's all you think about ... Amber Thody has responded to Hugh Price...
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Friday, October 24, 2008

What jacket helps a book sell?

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My last post elicited a very interesting comment from bookseller Amber Thody. Fascinated by the idea of jackets selling books, she confided ...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

New book on maritime leadership . . .

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. . . and thoughts about book jackets Admirals: The Naval Commanders Who Made Britain Great , by Andrew Lambert has just been published by ...
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Newspaper blogging

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The ever-lively GalleyCat comments on a survey just released by the Online Journalism Blog, which reveals how deeply blogging has affected ...
Tuesday, October 21, 2008

VIACOM up for sale?

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Well-informed speculation by Peter Lauria in the New York Post has it that mega-media-mogul Sumner Redstone , 85, may be forced to sell Vi...
Monday, October 20, 2008

Is the Associated Press becoming an unaffordable luxury?

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One hundred and sixty-two years ago, a bunch of US newspapers banded together to create a wire service, called The Associated Press, which w...