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OR, HOW TO SAVE INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES ONE E-BOOK AT A TIME Several weeks ago I mentioned the “Cultures of Books and Reading” class I’m teaching this semester at Indiana University. It’s been a blast so far. My students have had so many provocative things to say about the present and future of book culture. More [...]
This is the fourth installment in an occasional series reflecting on how the publishing industry might connect better with readers. You can read part I, on The Da Vinci Code, by clicking here; part II, on Oprah, is available here; and part III, on Netflix, is here. IV. What can the publishing industry learn from [...]
This is the third and final installment in a multi-part series reflecting on how the publishing industry might connect better with readers. You can read part I, on The Da Vinci Code, by clicking here. Part II, on Oprah, is available here. III. What can the publishing industry learn from Netflix? In the realm of [...]
I’d been planning on posting installment three of my “What the Publishing Industry Can Learn” series, on Netflix. I’ve decided to postpone it until later in the week, however, given the thoughtful responses over on Conversational Reading and The Reading Experience to installment one, on The Da Vinci Code. I argued that the publishing industry [...]
This is the second installment in a multi-part series reflecting on how the publishing industry might connect better with readers. You can read part I, on The Da Vinci Code, by clicking here. II. What can the publishing industry learn from Oprah? I can hear you groaning already. “Oprah? Really?” Yes, really. “Hasn’t that already [...]
This is the first in a multi-part series called, “what the publishing industry can learn.” Each post will focus on a specific — and specifically instructional — facet of contemporary book culture. The goal is to help those of us invested in books to imagine how the publishing industry might connect better with readers and [...]
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