Content tagged with “publishing”

“This book is a vague manifesto for change. The author is a lawyer that was appointed to some commission to study libraries, and this book feels like the result of his research. He’s essentially pushing for libraries to de-emphasize physical collections, and emphasize the role of librarians and…”

“So, this book didn’t teach me anything new, but it was interesting, and had some good information about early Internet history, which I appreciate. The book has a chapter on each of a variety of ‘dark’ things that the Net plays host to: Trolling Racism and Hate Groups Bitcoin and Crypto-Currency…”

“ Dan Brown might have written a weird humor book, but no one knows for sure, and you can’t seem to buy it, no matter how hard you try. ”

“ The description of the sad decline of a once-great news publication is very likely a mirror to the rest of the industry. ”

“ A retrospective and examination of the ground-breaking interactive fiction series from the 1980s. ”

“ A dissection of the demise of Mic that probably mirrors every digital media outlet in the world (hence the title). Well-written and consequently depressing. ”

“I’m rating this five stars because it accomplished everything it set out to do, but books like this really defy rating. This is a procedural book. You’re meant to have this open while you do stuff. There’s not a lot of words – it’s largely screencaps and code listings. Books like this also become…”

“ An annotated photo gallery showing the detailed process by which a physical book is produced. ”

“ A sobering look at how the publishing industry works, from the perspective of a promising author for whom things didn’t work out so well. ”

“So, here’s the thing: I shouldn’t have read this book. More importantly, I should have stopped reading this book when it became clear that it would never make sense. But I didn’t. Back in the 80s, I was a fan of a card game called Illuminati by Steve Jackson Games. I was reading about it one day,…”

“This stands for ‘International Standard Book Number.’ It’s meant to uniquely identify a printing of a text. These are issued from the International ISBN Agency . They are sold through resellers, specific to each country. The number has grown: The 9-digit British ‘SBN’ was created in the late 60s….”

“ Very expensive self-published books on Amazon were likely used to launder money, purchased by people wanting to illicitly transfer funds to the seller. ”

“ A son comes to terms with his late father’s secret career as a writer of pulp porn novels. He wrestles with the darkness that grew out it and that which it might have hidden from the world. ”

“ An episode of a web series that focuses on hand-crafted goods. This one is about a dying breed of bookmaker. ”

“ Someone is using all sorts of email tricks to get early access to novel manuscripts. No one knows who they are or what they want, but everyone in the industry is paranoid. ”

“This is one of those motivational/inspirational type books. It doesn’t really present a lot of new information, and it’s formatted all funky with weird fonts and colors and stuff (a la Tom Peters), and it’s really short – you can read it in 30 minutes. The goal is to impress upon you that it’s okay…”

“I can’t recommend this book. It’s a little ironic that the biggest problem with a book on type is its format. The book is divided into chapters, but each one is essentially a collection of mini-essays. In each two-page spread, the left page is an image of some kind, meant to illustrate what the…”

“ The story of the book which started the ‘heavenly tourism’ craze of a decade ago. The boy at the center of it eventually recanted the entire story, and his already-flawed family completely broke apart. ”