The Daily Square – Borderline Edition
Daily links from booksquare: booksquare
Thoughts on The Future of Books
We find that we’re having some difficulty synthesizing the “Future of the Book: Dead or Alive” panel we attended on the final day of the hectic, overwhelming 2007 South by Southwest Interactive Festival. Perhaps it’s because the topic requires far longer than a one hour session. Perhaps it’s because we’re still wrapping our rain-soaked mind around the definitions of “future” and “book”. Or perhaps it’s because there wasn’t a single representative of today’s publishing establishment on the panel. It isn’t about the future of books; it’s about the future of reading. We will acknowledge that this particular panel was not
On Change (and Community)
Book publishers for the most part cringe from change, in part of a fear their trade will evolve into something they cannot participate in. But this community, once embraced, will allow publishers the ability to help shape what the future will hold. The digital community not attended to, is one that will work around obstacles to create a platform that meets their needs. Digital Communities
The Daily Square – Then She Remembers Edition
Daily links from booksquare: booksquare
The Daily Square – Walk on the Wild Side Edition
Daily links from booksquare: booksquare
Open Letter To The (Book) Publishing Industry
Darlings, Where are you? We have been in the lovely city of Austin (the sun is shining, the grackles are, well, one doesn’t need to discuss the private functions of birds) since Thursday and haven’t seen you anywhere. We have gone so far as to take the rather rude step of reading nametags rather than looking our fellow humans in the eye. It’s about creating content, melding content with technology, expanding the story beyond traditional boundaries. South by Southwest, the interactive festival, is in full swing. Already, the panel sessions are cram-packed with innovators looking for the next Next Big
The Daily Square – That’s What You Always Say Edition
Daily links from booksquare: booksquare
On Taking A Platform All The Way To The Top
The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification by Julian Montague is described thus by its publishers: “Despite the ubiquity of stray shopping carts, little effort has been made to comprehend the complex relationship between cart and landscape. This is, in no small part, due to the fact that we have until now lacked a formalised language to describe these wayward carts in systematic detail.” There’s nothing stranger than non-fiction
Friday Night, March 9, Something To Do
We are en route to an exciting, undisclosed location. This involves rising at an unnatural hour and not posting original snark here. Yes, this does mean that you get to read something new and fresh for a change. While we do not normally get all L.A.-centric on you, sometimes needs must. Los Angeles is about as close the Center of the Universe as you can get. We are excited to bring your attention to a local production called Severance, a world premiere adaptation of Severance: Stories, a collection of shorts by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler. Severance “…is an