I was just looking around the inter nets for video of the Lab with Leo. No luck. I really like when Leo blurbs a book that he likes on air. He also has Mr. Excel on the Lab from time to time. That got me thinking — Leo Laporte (or similar G4/Greedy Productions personality) could [...]
My favourite Sherlock Holmes cover over at the Penguin blog (link) — if the story starred Vincent Price…
and the worst international cover for Freakonomics. The cover is from France. The link is via kottke.org
BTW the title of Freak in Catalonia is Economia Freaky. That is awesome.
Jimmy Guterman at O’Reilly takes Penguin to task for not going free with their out-of-copyright classics. The point about using the medium to your advantage is well taken, but unless I am mistaken O’Reilly has yet to set up a torrent tracker for their content. Penguin didn’t have the stones to go free, but Guterman [...]
Paidcontent is reporting that Overdrive — an ebook reseller — is adding DRM-free audio books.
Overdrive has quietly come to dominate the ebook space. I would have thought that Ingram or Amazon would be out front but that is not true. Now they are adding DRM-free audio books to their portfolio. Not really a surprise. They [...]
The BNC Technology Forum 2008: Harnessing Digital Opportunity has wrapped. Morgan Cowie is catching her breath over at the BookNet blog. The Quill covered Tamblyn doing his Rich-Uncle-Pennybags-thing for the book-monopoly launch. Now what? Is the industry any closer to understanding, let alone harnessing, digital opportunities?
A Good Start but a Long Way to Go
I [...]
Having just seen two heist films in two days, I have been thinking about this list…
The Asphalt Jungle — it was first so I put it first
Rififi — the original don’t-touch-the-floor heist takes up 28 minutes in middle of the film
Le Cercle Rouge* — like Rififi, this also has an extended heist set-piece that [...]
The epilogue of The Bank Job references the “Great Train Robbery”. I understood this to be the great train robbery of 1855 — fictionalized by Michael Crichton then later filmed by him. In fact, there was a greater train robbery in 1963 to which The Bank Job refers. In any case, being a sucker for [...]
I just caught up with The Bank Job. The trailer for this movie is really misleading. It is not a bad little flic.
For one the bumbling robbers routine is overdone in the trailer. For two Jason Statham renews himself in my mind after I just saw Revolver. The DP work here is gorgeous — the [...]
A year after the inaugural forum on digital innovation in Canadian publishing, I look back at some of my highlights from 2007…
Session #1 - A Conference About Technology?
It is about the customer stupid. I made the following scribbles during Tom Wujec’s keynote:
Ask yourself what do your readers want
Ask yourself what are your readers doing [...]
On the eve of the second annual BookNet Canada Technology Forum, I looked up my notes from the 2007 conference. Sadly the link to the 2007 agenda has been taken down so I am not exactly sure of the chronology.
The Watermelon Rant
By a long shot, the highlight of the 2007 BookNet Canada Technology Forum was [...]