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Archive for April 30th, 2009

The printed book survives to fight another day.

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Nearly buried under news about Google’s rights to distribute ebooks was a quiet announcement of a long awaited change to the book industry. The Times was one of a fairly small number of media sources that covered the trial installation of the Espresso Book Machine, a print on demand book vending machine. Unveiled last week [...]

New online course offering at McSweeney’s – ENG 371WR: Writing for Nonreaders in the Postprint Era

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

For you fellow old fogies (in the internet age, that means anyone over 30) who lament the fall of the English language into some kind of weird pidgin language filled with “AFAIK” and “BOSMKL”. Robert Lanham’s got a fun piece on McSweeney’s called Internet-Age Writing Syllabus and Course Overview.  It’ll leave you, well, ROFL. Just [...]