Advertising inserted into a 1972 science-fiction paperback by A. E. Van Vogt. Paul Collins, Smoke This Book: “The story of paperback advertising started innocently enough: with babies, in fact. In 1958, the Madison Avenue adman Roy Benjamin founded the Quality Book Group, a consortium of the paperback industry heavyweights Bantam Books, Pocket Books and the [...]
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Inside the tomb of tomes
December 2nd, 2007
The Guardian, Inside the tomb of tomes: “The warehouse is extraordinary because, unlike all those monstrous Tesco and Amazon depositories that litter the fringes of the motorways of the Midlands, it is being meticulously constructed to house things that no one wants. When it is complete next year, this warehouse will be state-of-the-art, containing 262 [...]
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The London Library
November 16th, 2007
The Daily Telegraph: “The handsome house in the corner of St James’s Square, which now has 8,000 members and one million books, has for the past 160 years been the best ‘place on the civilised earth’, but it no longer caters for those who are ‘not rich’. Carlyle’s insistence that readers pay only a ‘small [...]
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Biologists Helping Bookstores
July 30th, 2007
Biologists Helping Bookstores. Reshelving pseudo-scientific nonsense since 2007. “I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but some bookstores seem to have a little problem discerning science from non-science. I’m specifically talking about biology books vs. creationist books. Sometimes, you will find psuedo-scientific rubbish such as “intelligent design” books next to such authors as Darwin, Mayr, Gould, [...]
Recently Played 2006
December 31st, 2006
2006: Beste Grüße.
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links for 2006-05-19
May 19th, 2006
Flash: 10 ways, “information” “outstanding recursive photo mosaic browser” – (Waxy) (tags: photography) 75-day Getting Real book stats update – Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals) “It’s been about 75 days since we released Getting Real, the book, in PDF format” “The revenue generated so far is a hair under $175,000.” (tags: publishing 37signals books) 80s [...]
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