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Tag Archives: books
Bookstore Animation
Here’s a lovely tribute to books, created by Type bookstore in Toronto.
Posted in Book Publishing or Selling, Ruminations
Tagged animation, books, bookstore, Type bookstore
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TED talk on Culturomics and ngrams
You may already have seen the video below of a talk given at the 2011 TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Conference, this talk being on Culturomics and ngrams.googlelabs.com. I’m posting it here because all the data behind the phenomenon is being … Continue reading
Posted in Ruminations
Tagged books, culturomics, Erez Lieberman Aiden, googlelabs, Jean-Baptiste Michel, ngrams, TED
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Table Talk about Books
My husband and I had a wonderful dinner with friends the other night at Ports of Italy restaurant in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. The weather had turned summerlike for a few days, and we were thrilled to be given an outdoor … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Authors
Tagged Alan Weisman, Amagansett, books, Boothbay Harbor, Mark Mills, Ports of Italy, The Cleveland Rutters
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Book Marketing, Part 2
Retail booksellers are familiar with a great publication called “Shelf Awareness” that gives them current information about the book industry, publishers’ plans for upcoming books, and some of the publicity underway on recently published books. The online magazine provides lots … Continue reading
Posted in Book Publishing or Selling, Book Readers
Tagged book review, books, bookselling, Enlightenment, free newsletter, giveaways, reading, Shelf Awareness
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The Midwest Book Review (dot com), Bless Them
The Midwest Book Review (dot com), bless them, has given their own version of a thumbs-up to my book The Cleveland Rutters. An organization of volunteers, established in 1976, MBR is among the very few established review sources to include … Continue reading
Face-to-Face Time in Old-Style Publishing
My posting on June 1 was titled “Good Feelings from Groups.” Soon after posting it, while searching for a document on a wholly different subject, I unearthed a business plan I’d written in the late 1990s for my publishing company … Continue reading
Compulsory Voting
Have you ever heard of this concept of compulsory voting? I never had. It took a chance meeting and conversation in the gardens at the Palace of Versailles with a couple from Australia to educate me on this one. (Don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Authors, Ruminations
Tagged Australia, books, compulsory voting, democracy, fines, Full Disclosure, representation, Sarah Birch, United Nations, voting
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Young Adult Fiction Reviewer
I’m not a parent, but I have many good friends who are parents. I had two parents myself. My stepkids are parents. I’ve also been known to have opinions about parenting, which I usually keep to myself. So, with that … Continue reading
Posted in Book Readers, Books and Authors
Tagged books, fiction, Gayle Forman, Harry Potter, If I Say, J. K. Rowling, Jellicoe Road, Lucy Christopher, Maggie Stiefvater, Melina Marchetta, Mockingjay, parents, reader, reviewer, Shiver, Stolen, Suzanne Collins, young adults
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Life-Changing Books Redux / Eating Animals
About thirty years ago, I swore off veal. I had read a one-page consciousness-raising ad about how calves are treated from birth to death to make them good sources of veal. Imagine my shock the other day when I saw … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Authors, Ruminations
Tagged animal abuse, books, chickens, compassion, disease, Eating Animals, environment, factory farming, Farm Forward, farming, fish, Jonathan Safran Foer, meat, omnivore, poultry, turkeys, veal, vegan, vegetarian
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