Archive for category: The print medium

Mr. Quentin Crisp predicts the present    (2010.02.01)

In How to Have a Life<hyphen>Style, Mr. Crisp presaged phenomena that are now commonplace

Bet against HTML and you lose    (2010.01.29)

Bet against HTML for online distribution and you’ve backed the wrong horse

‘[E]very book that is being published now depends on something that is in Twitter’    (2010.01.22)

Mike Shatzkin is the latest to opine on the future of the book. And guess what: Everything that works for O’Reilly naturally will not work for you

‘The problem section’    (2010.01.12)

A couple of things you can leave out: “The problem section” in magazine articles; historical digressions in books

What’s your publisher done for you lately?    (2010.01.12)

According to a tendentious, borderline dishonest Jonathan Galassi, tons. And now they own your book, essentially

A digital magazine is not quite a ‘Web site’    (2010.01.12)

But it will be expressed as some form of HTML. Still, there will be problems

‘Stale Roles and Tight Buns’    (2010.01.08)

“What’s almost as pointless as a bottom with nine inches uncut? A novelist with nine inches uncut”

Ben Hammersley’s useful precedent    (2010.01.07)

Ben Hammersley and I agree: Marked-up documents are rare to nonexistent in the book and magazine world

Anatomy of a literary agent’s contract    (2010.01.07)

What the first draft of one literary agent’s contract looks like