- Excellent Book Covers and Paperbacks | Monday Inspiration | Smashing Magazine - I don’t agree with all Smashing Magazine’s choices, and may of these are better in the context of their series (Penguin/Pelicans, notably), but this is still very nice to look at. The gatefold sleeves of the future…
- Penguin will publish new book titles as ‘ebooks’ - Telegraph - I love the Torygraph’s compulsive use of quotation marks. And I love that Penguin thinks it can sell “ebooks” for the same price as paper editions. God, I’m snarky today.
- digital book-browsing tool is to make works of about 500 authors available online | Media | guardian.co.uk - How do journalists still get away with reprinting corporate press releases? This is an embeddable version of Amazon’s Search inside, it’s not new, and it’s certainly not Last.fm. Oh, and Sebastian? ‘Widget’ was coined in 1924. Look it up.
- The Penguin Blog: ‘It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.’ - Great piece from Colin Brush on copywriting for the classics. And Shepard Fairey covers to boot! Damn you, Penguin.
- Virtual Worlds News: Disney’s Virtual Magic Kingdom to Close Doors - Extraordinary and fascinating comments on the nature of virtual worlds, and by extension social life on the internet. Non-believers start here. [via Infovore]
- BBC iPlayer - Stephen Fry and the Gutenberg Press - This was a good programme. It’s almost more Discovery Channel than BBC4 in its focus on craft over ideas, but Fry is evangelical about the printed word.
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