“I know you can’t be expected to read a whole book review in a newspaper anymore. No… You need book reviews that are fast, casual, video… So this is the first in a series of weekly VIDEO book reviews…”
Great stuff. Ron Charles is truly a totally hip VIDEO book reviewer (found via Hannah Tinti’s Twitter).
More about Bilton and his book at nickbilton.com.
This makes sense for an author like Seth Godin — he has a platform and a following, and he writes books with a very targetable audience. As Godin points out, he knows who his readers are. And with the rise of ebooks, which essentially removes the complexities and costs of distribution and inventory, the process of getting his books to his customers, though not simple by any means, is much more manageable and cost-effective.
Godin explains his decision here and in a MediaBistro interview. Jacket copy has a good post on Godin’s announcement, and the WSJ published this informative news story.
This is one of the best books that I read this year — The Tiger by John Vaillant. Definitely worth a read.
Really clever powerpoint from Jennifer Egan’s new book A Visit from the Goon Squad.
Hampton Sides discusses his new book, Hellhound On His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin.
So much is happening in the world of books. The transition to digital is in full swing. How we actually read books is changing. Most of this is good, because the old ways are not going to go away. The end result will be more options – in how we read, what we’ll have access to, how we’ll find things. But there are aspects to the change that are not so cut and dry — conflicting interests and a hazy long-term view make it difficult to fully understand exactly what it will mean not just right now, but in the future, for the various parties involved – writers, publishers, and readers. The Google Book Settlement is an example of this. It is definitely something everyone should understand — I thought this article posted at io9 by Annalee Newitz did a great job of exploring some of the major issues on the table with regard to the settlement — 5 Ways The Google Book Settlement Will Change The Future of Reading.
April is poetry month. Also, the cruelest month, or so a poet once said. Worth checking out is Knopf’s Poem-A-Day — a new poem is posted/emailed each day throughout the month.
Author Kevin Sampsell (in orange shirt) walks to the microphone to begin his reading at Rachel Kramer Bussel’s In The Flesh Reading Series at Happy Ending in the Lower East Side, NYC. He read from his awesome book A Common Pornography.
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