myjetpack:

A book of my cartoons will be out next week!

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3:33 pm  •  16 April 2013  •  4,255 notes

yostivanich:

Laura Hazard Owen, PaidContent:

Ebooks accounted for 22.55 percent, or nearly a quarter, of U.S. book publishers’ sales in 2012, according to a full-year report released by the Association of American Publishers Thursday. That’s up from 17 percent of sales in 2011 and 3 percent in 2009. Ebook growth continued to plateau, however, suggesting that the industry is maturing.

The U.S. trade book industry saw $7.1 billion in revenue in 2012, with $1.54 billion coming from ebooks.

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2:49 pm  •  16 April 2013  •  3 notes

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2:05 pm  •  16 April 2013  •  141,678 notes

infoneer-pulse:

E-books are getting the Spotify subscription model.

Books have long been the last holdout as music, movies, games and even TV shows and magazines have embraced the subscription model. Pay a single monthly fee and you can gorge on all the content you can cram into your eyes and ears. But on Tuesday, Tim Waterstone, the founder of the UK bookstore Waterstones, announced Read Petite, a subscription streaming service for short fiction. It’s a baby step toward a new model that could shake up an industry that has seen traditional books losing ground to e-books, which comprised 22.5 percent of the book market in 2012.

» via Wired

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1:22 pm  •  16 April 2013  •  48 notes

bookriot:

This is what happened when a major storm hit the library at the University of Nebraska-Kearny and soaked a whole bunch of books.

How Libraries Respond to Disaster

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12:38 pm  •  16 April 2013  •  211 notes

ebookporn:

Every year, the Council’s library service has books that have reached the end of their life; either through the amount of times they have been issued or due to an updated version becoming available.

Most find new homes in the annual book sale; with the proceeds invested back into the service. But the small number of books that are left are being used in a competition designed to bring out people’s creative sides for a chance to win an EBook reader.

FULL ARTICLE with more pictures

11:55 am  •  16 April 2013  •  5 notes

“

Beyond treating individual letters as physical objects, the human brain may also perceive a text in its entirety as a kind of physical landscape. When we read, we construct a mental representation of the text in which meaning is anchored to structure. The exact nature of such representations remains unclear, but they are likely similar to the mental maps we create of terrain—such as mountains and trails—and of man-made physical spaces, such as apartments and offices. Both anecdotally and in published studies, people report that when trying to locate a particular piece of written information they often remember where in the text it appeared. We might recall that we passed the red farmhouse near the start of the trail before we started climbing uphill through the forest; in a similar way, we remember that we read about Mr. Darcy rebuffing Elizabeth Bennett on the bottom of the left-hand page in one of the earlier chapters.

In most cases, paper books have more obvious topography than onscreen text. An open paperback presents a reader with two clearly defined domains—the left and right pages—and a total of eight corners with which to orient oneself. A reader can focus on a single page of a paper book without losing sight of the whole text: one can see where the book begins and ends and where one page is in relation to those borders. One can even feel the thickness of the pages read in one hand and pages to be read in the other. Turning the pages of a paper book is like leaving one footprint after another on the trail—there’s a rhythm to it and a visible record of how far one has traveled. All these features not only make text in a paper book easily navigable, they also make it easier to form a coherent mental map of the text.

In contrast, most screens, e-readers, smartphones and tablets interfere with intuitive navigation of a text and inhibit people from mapping the journey in their minds.

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— Scientific American explores the reading brain in the digital age. Also see the death of the book through the ages, the publishing world on future of print and writers on the future of books. (via explore-blog)

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11:11 am  •  16 April 2013  •  1,331 notes

“3. The copy editor, a traditionally marginalised figure, is now in strong demand.”

— Ten ways self-publishing has changed the books world (via millionsmillions)

10:27 am  •  16 April 2013  •  41 notes

amandaonwriting:

Madhatter Bookshop, Burford, Oxfordshire, UK

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9:44 am  •  16 April 2013  •  387 notes

closetcellist:

That awkward moment when you read “yaoi” and “hentai” in Publisher’s Weekly.

Welp!

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4:16 pm  •  15 April 2013  •  3 notes