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Since last fall, an Alameda, California–based start-up has been blending digital text, images, video, and social networking to produce what it calls "vooks" (a portmanteau word formed from video and book), which can be accessed through any Web browser or downloaded to mobile devices via Apple's iTunes Store.
A look at a sculpture by U.K. artist Su Blackwell, one of the thirty-three artists showcased in the art book and craft guide Playing With Books: The Art of Upcycling, Deconstructing, and Reimagining the Book, published by Quarry Books in April.
In the third installment of our series Inside Indie Bookstores, contributor Jeremiah Chamberlin travels to Chicago to talk with Linda Bubon and Ann Christophersen, co-owners of Women & Children First.
Small Press Points highlights the happenings of the small press players. This issue features CityLit Press, an independent publisher based in Baltimore that provides a venue for writers who might otherwise be ignored by larger independent or commercial publishers.
Broadsided, a monthly literature-and-art project that brings poetry and prose into people's everyday lives by posting it in public spaces, reaches beyond local schools, streets, and shops to take open-air publishing global.
Literary MagNet chronicles the start-ups and closures, successes and failures, anniversaries and accolades, changes of editorship and special issues—in short, the news and trends—of literary magazines in America. This issue's MagNet features Little Star, Still Crazy, the Paris Review, the Southwest Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, DIAGRAM, and Linebreak.
Crown Publishing cuts two imprints and regroups; Amazon sends another volley in the e-book pricing wars; an Indiana high school bans Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announces plans to release Philip K. Dick's philosophical writings; and other news.
Author Tayari Jones calls for a boycott of Arizona; today is National Poem In Your Pocket Day; the Author's Guild elects new leadership; PEN luminaries honor Nay Phone Latt; and other news.
Laura Bush's revealing new memoir is due out in May; a book of Marilyn Monroe's writings is forthcoming from FSG; Cambridge Dictionaries Online adds audio pronuncations; sales of British political manifestos are booming; and other news.
Nooks outshipped Kindles in March; a British author claims to have solved a seventy-year-old murder; Orion takes top honor at the Utne Independent Press Awards; George W. Bush's memoir book jacket and official release date announced; and other news.
