Books as Objects
January 5, 2012
The Soundtrack of Our Books 11
by Sharon Steel
Publishers and authors have begun to experiment more with audio as a natural step in the promotion of their books. But recent trends suggest that readers are looking for even more direct ways to incorporate music into the reading experience.
August 15, 2011
The E-Reader of Sand: The Kindle and the Inner Conflict Between Consumer and Booklover 56
by Mark O'Connell
It occurred to me that Borges would have been thrilled and horrified in equal measure by the Kindle. In fact, in a weird way, he sort of invented it.
February 2, 2011
Judging Books by Their Covers: U.S. Vs. U.K. 47
by C. Max Magee
Book cover design is a strange exercise in which one attempts to distill iconic imagery from hundreds of pages of text.
July 23, 2010
On My Shelves 7
by Charles-Adam Foster-Simard
Sometimes I wish I were that man in the Twilight Zone episode who finds himself in the ruins of a public library, with lots of food and all the time in the world to read all the books he wants.
May 31, 2010
Melissa Klug and the Permanence Matters Initiative 13
by Emily St. John Mandel
“I truly believe that we are at a critical crossroads in publishing. As the attention, bandwidth and energy of publishing turns to e-books, we are concerned that what is currently a trend toward lesser quality print versions of books will then become a landslide.”
March 3, 2010
Judging Books by Their Covers: U.S. Vs. U.K. 42
by C. Max Magee
There are all sorts of marketing considerations behind these designs, and it’s interesting to see how designing for these two similar markets can result in very different looks.
