Borders produced a 25 minute video (release) to support its latest book club pick. They are clearly aiming for some Oprah-level of love at the new Borders website. That is a long vid by web standards but that aside it makes me wonder does anyone trust a retailer to tell them what to buy? If [...]
I said before that alienating the reader is the book industry’s biggest problem. What you say?
That statement has elicited guffaws from friends that think I am mixing my post-colonial theory with my economics.
Randall Stross captures the right tone in his recent piece from the New York Times called First It Was Song Downloads. Now It’s [...]
The Compound Security company from the UK has created the Mosquito sound box that emits a high pitch noise only audible to people under 25.
CBC radio’s The Current reported this morning that the box is in use in school districts like Maple Ridge BC. Apparently they also use video cameras and a water cannon that [...]
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This vid reminds me of book cover meetings I have attended.
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When a baseball team is in trouble, the manager gets fired. When a magazine is in trouble, the nameplate gets changed. When a retail store is in trouble, the fixtures get moved. The tendency drifts towards the cosmetic and superficial.
Like The Apple Store…But Not
Blockbuster, HMV, and Borders are all trying new “concepts” at the store [...]
PW pointed to my boy Glen Greenwald last week. His post is poorly constructed, but the above YouTube video makes a strong enough impression on its own.
I am not sure if you remember the hologram cover that National Geographic did 20 years ago, but it ruined the magazine. It cost so much money, they had to drastically reduce the number of photographers they employed and they brought in the bean counters. Things were never the same since.
Esquire magazine is reminding us [...]
Thanks Brad.
I recently caught up with Frank Capra’s 1937 film The Lost Horizon. The heroine — Jane Wyatt — reminded me of Maggie Gyllenhaal and the opening credit sequence reminded me of this CBS news clip from 1975. Wyatt is quoted in her wikipedia entry saying
“During the war, they cut out all the pacifist parts of [...]