Champagne and Socks

• Putting the eeeeee! into E-books
• Faber teams with US firm to provide digital services
• Tor.com partners with Barnes and Noble – I draw your attention to the complete lack of women on the list for discussion for the next two weeks.
• The Queensland Premier’s Literary Award Winners announced
• Moscow Book Fair
• Reading Fiction Improves Empathy - can I just say, “well duh!”
• Great Digital Expectations – interesting mostly for the comments on Ikea repackaging the Billy bookcase for other things (not in this house though. We’ve bought three for storing books in the last month)
• The transformation of the book industry: disappearing ink
• Why browsing is so important to content discovery
• Michael Hart, inventor of the ebook passed away
• The Guardian covers the Outcry over Hamlet novel casting an old king as gay paedophile – possibly now would be the time to remove “Once you’ve read Orson Scott Card’s revelatory version of the Hamlet story, Shakespeare’s play will be much more fun to watch—because now you’ll know what’s really going on.” from his website.
• Sleeping with the enemy a cautionary tale
• The next four industries to be revolutionized by the internet – publishing is number three
• Two Ravens Press: Publishing four and a half years on - me too! And I could have written this exact article, in fact the numbers are in pounds and they publish literary but otherwise, that’s basically everything I have to say on it too.

Should start a new subsection, Book Stores I’d like to Visit

• The Book Cafe – this one is in Waukesha