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• Interactive audio novel from Hurts – Spotify My current favourite band ever create a choose-your-own-adventure with codes in Spotify tracks. Brilliant.

• Spillway: A Wild New Gig "Are you ready for the death of print, books, and magazines? The whole weird future was laid on me tonight by a professor from UCLA Journalism school. The only missing link, he says, is a process for editing video-tape without computers … and after that it's a whole new ballgame: No more Hollywood, no more book publishers, no more magazines …" Hunter S Thompson, 25 March, 1969.

• Seth Godin to No Longer Publish Books Traditionally: GalleyCat "I like the people, but I can't abide the long wait, the filters, the big push at launch, the nudging to get people to go to a store they don't usually visit to buy something they don't usually buy, to get them to pay for an idea in a form that's hard to spread …"

• LRB · Frank Kermode "Frank Kermode, who died on 17 August at the age of 90, was the author of many books, including Romantic Image (1957), The Sense of an Ending (1967) and Shakespeare’s Language (2000). He was the Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London and the King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University. He inspired the founding of the London Review in 1979, and wrote more than 200 pieces for the paper."
• About | beta.openmargin.com "When you read a book, the words can inspire new, original thoughts in your mind.

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• Other words by B.S. Johnson « Matthew Sheret.com "It makes it very difficult to know how or when to start on these three books. By finishing them I somehow close a chapter on Johnson, and for a lot of reasons I don’t want to do that." Matt on 'finishing' an author.

• Media Gallery | Tara Books Handmade books from an Indian independent publisher. Lovely stuff.
• BBC – Archive – In Their Own Words: British Novelists – Interviews with remarkable modern writers "Throughout its history, the BBC has aimed to help audiences delve into the imagination of writers. This collection of interviews with some of the 20th Century's most read authors reveals something of those imaginations and the personalities which lie behind some of the greatest modern novels."

• The Digital Book Cover Another approach to book covers: animation.

• The Digital Book Cover Another approach to book covers: animation.

• The real costs of digital Profile digital publisher Michael Bhaskar on ebook royalties.
• Spillway: Bookscape On book collecting, and its straw men.
• Stewart Lee: my life on the shelf | Culture | The Observer On book collecting.
• Darwin’s Library On the stitching of wings to monkeys' backs, and other things.

• Not Voodoo: How to save publishing "But see, publishing people are always whingeing about how they're selling fewer books, that the industry is on its last legs, that times are tough, that they're nearly 30 and haven't had a baby, etc. And this is partly because people who work in publishing do tend to be drawn from the ranks of nature's whiners and also, because they don't have to make their product, they only have to sell it, so they've got a complex about how comparatively easy their job is, compared to that of the authors they're forced to

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