The lovely folks at Book City Jackets (mentioned previously here) have just released Artist Edition No.2 featuring original work by Nishat Akhtar, Cheeming Boey and Michael C. Hsiung.
“Can’t We All Just Get Along?” — Steve Ross, Former President at HarperCollins and Sr. VP at Random House, on publishing, e-books, and pricing at the Huffington Post:
Permeating… the conversation… is the sense that publishers are resistant to e-books for some reason. But publishers want e-books to succeed because they have the potential not only to expand readerships but leapfrog us over the historically insuperable and tenacious cancer at the heart of the business model; returnable books.
The New Old Thing — Jane Friedman, former president and chief executive of HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide, has launched Open Road which will focus on publishing e-book editions of backlist titles by well-known authors. Does this sound a lot like the original Penguin model for paperbacks to anyone else? There are more details at PW…
Stet — editor and author Diana Athill is interviewed by Vit Wagner in today’s Toronto Star. Granta recently released Life Class, which collects Athill’s memoirs Yesterday Morning, Instead of a Letter, Stet, and Somewhere Towards the End in a single volume. Athill is appearing with Alice Munro at IFOA this evening.
Vit also interviewed the fascinating Antony Beevor, author of the Stalingrad and Berlin: The Downfall 1945, earlier this week.
Designer and design blogger David Airey has launched a graphic design bookstore on Amazon with his book recommendations.
And finally…
I came across this lovely looking new book on the Bauhaus while browsing D.A.P.‘s Fall 09 catalogue. The book accompanies the exhibition Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity at MoMA in New York, November 8, 2009 — January 25, 2010.
Thanks for mentioning my little bookstore, Dan. I appreciate that.
My pleasure David — I like your blog a lot. Thanks for leaving a comment.