December 2008
114 posts
Photos of People Reading →
The fine art of literary rejection letters |... →
“Ok so this is one of the most amazing books I have ever read. It talks about...”
– Reader comment on Judy Blume’s Forever - comments in the style of Amazon can be found at Simon & Schuster
Books: Secret Agents Featured in Series - WSJ.com →
Secret Agents Featured in Series
Because Fantasy Jobs Are Alive in Fiction -... →
“Caroline — she held my hand like a soldier, she’s my helper;...”
– Jackie Kennedy Camelot.pdf (application/pdf Object)
“Have you guys ever thought about writing for, like, a woman’s magazine or...”
– As a Candidate, Kennedy Is Forceful but Remains Elusive - NYTimes.com
Top 10 Free Windows File Wranglers →
Top 10 Free Windows File Wranglers
Harlequin publishes over 120 titles a month.
http://www.eharlequin.com/articlepage.html?articleId=36&chapter=0
“For a decade, consumers mostly ignored electronic book devices, which were often...”
– More Readers Are Picking Up Electronic Books - NYTimes.com
Copy Editing Versus Content Editing →
If programming languages were religions... →
shabdar:roamin:Aegisub
C would be Judaism
Java would be Fundamentalist Christianity
PHP would be Cafeteria Christianity
C++ would be Islam
C# would be Mormonism
Lisp would be Zen Buddhism
Haskell would be Taoism
Erlang would be Hinduism
Perl would be Voodoo
Lua would be Wicca
Ruby would be Neo-Paganism
Python would be Humanism
COBOL would be Ancient Paganism...
“Ted lies to me, he lies all the time, he has become a little man… . When...”
– Sylvia Plath
The Huffington Post Slammed for Content Theft →
The Huffington Post Slammed for Content Theft
47 Tips for Publishers Cutting Costs Without... →
“The Future of Book Publishing (Maybe)”
– see title of blog
The Urban Elitist
Publishing Glossary
Acquisition Editors- The person at a publishing company in charge of reviewing and rating incoming manuscripts for possible publication and then supervise the publication process.
Back Matter- The section after the body of the text and may include the endnotes, index, bibliography, author biography, etc.
Blueline- The proof sheet(s) of a books revealed in bluish ink that shows exactly how...
The Science of Reading
Proust and the Squid is an inspiring celebration of the science of reading. In evolutionary terms, reading is a recently acquired cultural invention that uses existing brain structures for a radically new skill. Unlike vision or speech, there is no direct genetic programme passing reading on to future generations. It is an unnatural process that has to be learnt by each individual.
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What the Hell Is XML?
While sales of books through bricks-and-mortar locations are stagnant, sales through online channels, which today principally means Amazon, are growing. A goodly portion of those sales are driven by “referrals” from specialized Web sites continually sprouting throughout the Internet as well as referrals driven by those publisher widgets commonly found on social networking sites. And this is all...
“Bill Bannister looked at Lord Tidmouth, as a soldier in a tight place might have...”
– Aunts Aren’t Gentlemen by PG Wodehouse - Times Online
Why would booksellers buy a title without knowing...
“blind” books are almost always big sellers. Publishers rarely try to sell a book blind, and when they do, it comes with a promise that the title will make a big splash. Sales reps might keep the details of a blockbuster hidden to make sure no juicy bits are leaked to the press ahead of publication. Under normal circumstances, the reps would provide book buyers with lots of detail on...