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Monthly Archives: May 2011
BEA, Google and the future of books
In other news this week, Book Expo America (BEA) has been happening in New York City. And the hot topic for the week has been–surprise–ebooks! That’s not to say that the usual business of the show, the distribution of galleys … Continue reading
Posted in books, ebooks
Tagged Book Expo America, books, ebooks, Google Books
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Real person fiction
Real person fiction, otherwise known as RPF, is a term used in fanfiction to describe a story that uses the actors playing the characters in a TV show or movie rather than the characters themselves. And what is fanfiction, you … Continue reading
Posted in fanfiction, mystery
Tagged fanfiction, Josephine Tey, mystery, Nicola Upson
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Strength in Unity
I’ve been following the debate about the potential “forking” of the Digital Public Library of America project. This is a project that is going to continue to generate a lot of intelligent commentary. The name says it all. The excellent … Continue reading
Posted in digital libraries, libraries
Tagged Digital Public Library of America
Holmes is everywhere
Every generation reinvents Sherlock Holmes to suit itself. The current revision, Sherlock, was created by the same team that is also at the helm of Doctor Who. This is totally appropriate, as Sherlock beat Doctor Who for the British Academy of … Continue reading
Posted in mystery
Tagged Arthur Conan Doyle, Doctor Who, John Joseph Adams, Laurie R. King, Lindsay Faye, Michael Kurland, mystery, Neil Gaiman, Sherlock Holmes, steampunk
The hits to the book just keep on coming
There have been a lot of announcements this week that have made an awful lot of folks in an awful lot of places sound like Chicken Little announcing that, “the sky is falling, the sky is falling!” In Publisher’s Weekly, … Continue reading
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Who am I this time?
The above is the title of a surprisingly sweet made-for-TV movie starring Christopher Walken and Susan Sarandon from before Walken was firmly entrenched as the weird crazy evil guy. It was a long time ago. The movie is a romantic … Continue reading
Posted in About, Librarians
Tagged books, librarians, personal libraries, weeding
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Reading is a solitary pursuit
Reading is generally a solitary pursuit, but there are exceptions. I started to write that people who love to read generally learned by being read to as a child. I realized that the other way of learning to love reading … Continue reading
