Our new President has promised to increase the number of manufacturing jobs in America pointing out that we’ve lost 5 million manufacturing jobs since 2000. Laying the blame for these [CLICK TO READ MORE]
After skipping the last six or seven NYC Book Expos I was anxious to see what the 2016 Chicago version would be like. Frankly, I liked it. Sure, the energy [CLICK TO READ MORE]
RR Donnelly Closing OR Book Plant RR Donnelly has announced it is closing its Gresham OR commercial and book printing plant August 1, leaving 113 workers unemployed. In 2006 Gresham [CLICK TO READ MORE]
Bad People Will Do Bad Things to Your PC…and Your Mac There are a lot of bad things ready to attack your computer. For years we called them all viruses, [CLICK TO READ MORE]
Amazon Likes Brick and Mortar… After testing the water with a real store in Seattle, Amazon would ultimately like to open 300-400 physical bookstores nationally. I’m guessing B&N would be [CLICK TO READ MORE]
Hubris. It’s a word not commonly used anymore. Maybe because it’s been around for 2,500 years and most words have a finite life-span. But it’s a good word. Aristotle said [CLICK TO READ MORE]
Best Covers – 2015 I love great book covers. Like the Supreme Court judging pornography, I can’t define them but I know them when I see them. I could spend [CLICK TO READ MORE]
Today, Scholastic Publishing may be best known for bringing the stories of Harry Potter into our homes. Even though the J. K. Rowling series had been successful in the UK, [CLICK TO READ MORE]
I’ve heard book collecting is a neurosis, but all collectors, of everything from little silver souvenir spoons to juke boxes of the Benny Goodman era, function outside the bounds of [CLICK TO READ MORE]
A couple of the newsletters I got last month reminded me that book ornamentation need not be confined to ornate covers or a profusion of graphics sprinkled through the text. [CLICK TO READ MORE]
Amazon Sued Again Authors United (AU) and the American Booksellers Association (ABA) have partnered in a lawsuit charging Amazon with monopolizing book sales. Did the authors and book sellers just [CLICK TO READ MORE]
My best English teacher in high school frequently remarked that the entire literary world was turned upside down by the introduction of inexpensive paperback novels. The class yawned as one. [CLICK TO READ MORE]
For some reason I always assumed that part of aging meant developing a certain cynicism to the machinations of our ever changing world. I assumed that time would imbue us [CLICK TO READ MORE]
It’s not true that I totally disregard Facebook postings. For instance I enjoy most rants but despise videos. Some “friends” post memes that are supposed to scare old white men [CLICK TO READ MORE]
1.) He considers seniors his personal piggy bank. Just as I not so gracefully eased into what’s generally called my “senior” years, I learned that our new governor, the Nerd, [CLICK TO READ MORE]
Apparently There’s Funding, and Then There’s Funding This whole “Yes you did!”, “No I didn’t!” thing is getting old. How are we supposed to know who’s lying and who’s not [CLICK TO READ MORE]
1989 was a busy year for me. Charlie Baker and I worked all summer in a sweltering warehouse, converting 11,000 square feet into a book manufacturing plant. And my family [CLICK TO READ MORE]
I’ve been reading a newsletter entitled The Digital Nirvana for a few years now, more than occasionally to see what combination of e-something or another with the printing process has [CLICK TO READ MORE]
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