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Category Archives: Publishing and Politics
Saving Huck
The price of freedom is vigilance; this sanitized version of “Huckleberry Finn” shows that we need to be vigilant now, protest (http://www.newsouthbooks.com/pages/2011/01/10/conversations-on-newsouths-edition-of-mark-twains-tom-sawyer-and-huckleberry-finn/) its publication, and protect our recorded civilization from “e-book evanescence,” where the “real,” the permanent and paper-published book falls subsidiary to PC-driven “googlizations,” new and censored e-versions. E-censors can try and control our collective online archives, profit from the gutting, sanitizing and repackaging of art, and in so doing, alter our past, stupefy our present, and control our future. This is not a tolerable outcome for thinking people. Allowing such adulterating of our common library, on our watch, without comment, is tantamount to publishing the censored version of “Huckleberry Finn” ourselves. Continue reading
Posted in OBS News, Publishing and Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged Animal Farm, bowdlerization, censorship, google, Huckleberry Finn, NewSouth
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Down the Rabbit Hole with the Espresso Book Machine
Published in IPNE newsletter, June 2010 A group of fifteen IPNE members visited Harvard Book Store on June 4th, to witness the digital revolution turn yesterday’s “gentleman’s business” of publishing into everyman’s global printing press. The Espresso Book Machine (EBM), squired … Continue reading
Celebrate “Alone at Sea: Gloucester in the Age of the Dorymen (1623-1939)” by Dr. John Morris
We at OBS are delighted to announce the publication of Dr. John Morris’s new book “Alone at Sea: Gloucester in the Age of the Dorymen (1623-1939).” This beautifully illustrated book represents some 10 years of research conducted by John as he … Continue reading
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Tagged catch shares, cod, dorymen, fishing, gloucester, morris
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Volcanic Consequences
Our trip to London Book Fair was scotched because of the Icelandic volcano, cancelling our rights and other business meetings we had scheduled. However, it appears that the once-perceived-to-be-flagging BEA later this month will enjoy a boost in business, as many globally-based companies … Continue reading
Posted in Bookselling, Publishing and Politics
Tagged f2f, face to face, london book fair, marketing, rights, volcano
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