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Sound & Vision: Arthur Fournier

Allyson McCabe talks with Arthur Fournier, an independent dealer of books, serials, manuscripts, and archives, about how he developed his niche, and how digital access has both enriched and complicated the work of archiving and collecting.

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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Ian Svenonius’s “Principles of Modernism”

[T]he most essential thing is actually a kind of worldview, a mindset—or maybe it’s an ideology.

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Digital Ownership

In an article for Quartz, Christopher Groskopf dispels a myth many of us believe—in fact, we don’t own our ebooks. Or our software. Or digital movies, music, and games. Instead, we…

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Sound & Vision: Brendan Toller

Allyson McCabe talks with Brendan Toller about his love of vinyl records, buying music in local stores, and his latest documentary film Danny Says, an examination of publicist and manager Danny Fields.

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Intellectual Property’s Much-Needed Evolution

World Intellectual Property Day, the greatest of all spring holidays, was this Tuesday, April 26th. In honor of the holiday, the UK’s Intellectual Property Minister Baroness Neville-Rolfe made a statement…

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Swinging Modern Sounds #71: A Michael Bay Film Eating Itself

“Love,” then is not to be taken lightly here. It is being engaged at full force, megaphonically.

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Editions at Play

Editions at Play, the brainchild of Visual Editions publishers Anna Gerber and Britt Iverson and Google Creative Lab in Sydney, has launched, pushing the boundaries of books so far off…

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Paper Trumpets #30: Feeling Disconnected From Nature

[T]he finding, cutting, and pasting process constantly offers me new perspectives on how I see the world around me.

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Video on Demand

How many times have we been told that digital technology will fundamentally alter the way we interact with text? There was hypertext fiction, which added hyperlinks so you could choose…

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Fiction in the Digital Age

Serialized fiction is experiencing a resurgence, and we have technology to thank. Back in 2012, The Silent History brought the serialized novel to our iPhones (check out our interview with co-author…

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