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Survival of the Book: February 2011
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Survival of the Book. A possibly futile attempt to protect a thing with pages and a cover from electronic destruction. Wednesday, February 23, 2011. What to do while under house arrest? Okay, this is kinda fun. Links to this post. Monday, February 14, 2011. A big, steaming pile of intellectually dishonest horseshit.now a major motion picture! First the lead in from Matt Taibbi:. Now the bad news: Atlas Shrugged. Has been turned into a movie. Again, Matt Taibbi:. Links to this post. Links to this post.
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Survival of the Book: November 2010
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Survival of the Book. A possibly futile attempt to protect a thing with pages and a cover from electronic destruction. Friday, November 26, 2010. First, our deepest apologies here at SotB. We have been horrible and have not updated this blog in far too long. I hope you all will remember that we do have day jobs, and those jobs got very demanding in the last month. In these ads, it seems to me, we have made tangible the place of books in our modern culture. The printed book may be disappearing from st...
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Survival of the Book: June 2011
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Survival of the Book. A possibly futile attempt to protect a thing with pages and a cover from electronic destruction. Tuesday, June 28, 2011. Since we seem to support this idea here at SotB - it's not about posting constantly or even consistently, but rather it's about posting important and relevant material, ya see? I thought I would pull a quote I read recently and post it here. It's a quote that speaks to our deepest concerns in this ever-shifting publishing and reading landscape. Links to this post.
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Survival of the Book: Endangerment, Extinction
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Survival of the Book. A possibly futile attempt to protect a thing with pages and a cover from electronic destruction. Tuesday, May 03, 2011. That blows. But even before I read this, I read something else that very well may come to an end in this ever-changing publishing landscape, where print books are increasingly devalued. Yeah, that's right. Librarians doing choreographed dance routines with book carts. Try doing THAT with your fancy e-books, Cory Doctorow! But keeping the spirit of book cart-pushing...
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Survival of the Book: March 2012
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Survival of the Book. A possibly futile attempt to protect a thing with pages and a cover from electronic destruction. Monday, March 19, 2012. Annabelle Quezada and La Shea Delaney did a masterful parody of Jay-Z and Kanye West's "N*ggas in Paris.". Including lyrics and a link to what is being parodied. If you don't have time, just watch this action. So get it while it's hot! And let me tell you, these ladies are hot. Even this gay dude's head turned at this video, know what I'm saying? Links to this post.
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Survival of the Book: May 2011
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Survival of the Book. A possibly futile attempt to protect a thing with pages and a cover from electronic destruction. Wednesday, May 18, 2011. Philip Roth wins Man Booker Prize. This just in, Philip Roth has won the 2011 Man Boo.zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Sorry, I fell asleep while reporting this news as it bored me to death while typing. That is the best the Man Booker people could do?
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Survival of the Book: Generational shift?
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Survival of the Book. A possibly futile attempt to protect a thing with pages and a cover from electronic destruction. Friday, April 29, 2011. Sad news today out of New Haven, CT, where apparently the Labyrinth Bookstore. As soon as two weeks from now. (I initially read this news this morning in the daily installment of Shelf Awareness. I mentioned this store almost three years ago here. When we stopped there on a mini-tour of bookstores in Connecticut. It reminded me very much of Harvard Book Store.