Archive for category: The print medium

One more time: E-books do not contain ‘formatting’    (2010.10.18)

Craig Morgan Teicher is the latest æsthete to run screaming from E-book copy that is “swamped in code”

Bret Easton Ellis, pink marshmallow    (2010.10.10)

‘And since there had been a serial killer in of all fucking places Toronto, for Christ’s sake, who had read the book and based to of his murders on scenes from it, I made a number of frantic, drunken phone calls’

Half-fulfilled promises of ‘Half Empty’    (2010.10.08)

Is David Rakoff’s Half Empty an attempt at autobiography? Then why is it a failed attempt?

BookNet Canada Technology Forum pitch    (2010.10.07)

I proposed a session on structured documents for managers and editors for the BookNet Canada 2011 Technology Forum. The deadline for submissions was an insane six months in advance

‘Do you realize there’s no extant photograph of him?’    (2010.09.03)

“ ‘Why is that?’ I asked. ‘Why is it like this?’ ‘It’s because we’re queer, my dear’ ”

Publishers as Flashturbators    (2010.08.31)

The Web is old enough that history can repeat itself. What’s happening now with E-books parallels what happened with Web sites in the early Aughties

Worst line-editing of the year    (2010.08.25)

It’s in the most overrated book of the year, The Imperfectionists

‘Super Sad True Love’ coinage    (2010.08.22)

Neologisms in Super Sad True Love Story

Why does ‘Cognitive Surplus’ exist?    (2010.08.21)

What the Commentariat Publishing Lifecycle is, means, and does