All of the Big Six publishers have, for the first time, agreed to make e-books available to public library users.
Here’s another disruption that’s under-considered in library land. What if the e-book retailers crowdsourced a lending library like Kindle’s? Can libraries create a national or international lending library or are we forever bound by the boundaries of our institutions, cardholders, funding models, and servers?
“Anyone who tells you they know what’s coming, what things will be like in 10 years’ time, is simply lying to you,” according to the author Neil Gaiman, fresh from a provocative speech at this week’s London Book Fair where he urged major figures in the book business to “try everything. Make mistakes. Surprise ourselves. Try anything else. Fail. Fail better. And succeed in ways we never would have imagined a year or a week ago.”
Chip Kidd: Designing books is no laughing matter. OK, it is.
Chip Kidd doesn’t judge books by their cover, he creates covers that embody the book — and he does it with a wicked sense of humor. In one of the funniest talks from TED2012, he shows the art and deep thought of his cover designs. (From The Design Studio session at TED2012, guest-curated by Chee Pearlman andDavid Rockwell.)
Bookish a new site/book recommendation database went live yesterday.
Here’s a roundup of some press coverage. But first, some background about the company and the services they offer.
The Bookish Mission Statement
Here at Bookish, our mission is to engage more readers with more books, more authors and with one another. So, start discovering and delving deeper into books–we created Bookish just for you!
Some books are for sale and delivered in .ePUB format direct from Bookish. All books have direct links to purchase from Amazon, B&N, Books-a-Million, iBookstore, Indiebound, and Kobo.
Some titles include links to reviews, video, and other materials.
A book of my cartoons will be out in late April.
In a survey conducted of over 1200 US e-reading consumers in late 2012, NextMarket Insights discovered 64% of those who use an Amazon e-reader (non-tablet) as their primary e-reading device use e-book store rankings and reviews as a way to discover new e-books, 17% more than those who use iPads.
