Aug 31 2010
When the latest fracas over the New York Times Book Review's privileged and privileging coverage of "white guys living in Brooklyn" erupted, I reflexively rolled my eyes and sighed. Oh, great, I thought, another go-round in the perpetual media battle between so-called commercial and so-called literary fiction, and one that promises, once again, to regard(…)
Jun 30 2010
This was initially entitled Tuesday’s Midday Links but alas things went astray so I apologize in advance for this post’s length. I know it’s harder to consume the longer it is. Buried in a blog post by the Editors at the New York Times about the search for a new editor for The New York(…)
Dec 21 2009
The UK focused publishing site, The Bookseller, had an article that suggests the delay of ebooks could only strengthen Amazon instead of weakening it. UK trade insider warned deferral was dangerous. “It is never a good response to say to a consumer: "We know you want this but we are not going to let you(…)
May 18 2009
Maureen Dowd got caught copying a passage from Talking Points Memo blogger, Josh Marshall. She’s stated that it was inadvertent; that she doesn’t read Marshall; and that she got the insightful collection of words from a friend. Apparently Dowd and friend, as a commenter pointed out, has absolute recall over the comma placement of Marshall’s(…)
May 4 2009
AllThingsD, an arm of the Wall Street Journal, headlined by Walt Mossberg, puts forward its opinion that the Wednesday news conference Amazon is holding at Pace University will feature the debut of a larger Kindle designed to target the newspaper reading crowd. The NYTimes is apparently partnering with Kindle on this device. The question I(…)
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