The Rumpus Interview with Joshua Cohen
Novelist Joshua Cohen gives an interview, digital, about his new novel, paper, but also digital, about the Internet, digital, subsuming the novel, even his novel, best on paper, Book of Numbers.
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Posts Tagged: Digital Publishing
Word of the Day: Nesh
(n.); soft, delicate, tender; from the Old English hnesce (“soft in texture”) or Gothic hnasqus (“tender; soft”) “Over the years, I’ve gone back and forth over the merits of print versus digital books so many times, it’s as if I were in an abusive relationship with myself. But my mother’s passing and the sentimental value […]
...moreThe Thing Itself
You can’t put everything in the cloud. Over at The New Republic, William Giraldi makes the case for holding onto books in their physical form: We might be reading them—although I find that an e-reader’s scrolling and swiping are invitations to skim, not to read—but fully experiencing them is something else altogether.
...moreThe Queen of Steam
“I was like, Either I’m a sexual deviant, which is always a possibility, or they’re wrong,” says Engler of publishers’ reluctance to print raunchy material. She sips from a can of Grapeade. “Turned out they were wrong.” At Vulture, Phoebe Reilly tells the story of the meteoric rise and slow fall of Ellora’s Cave, a […]
...moreBig Brother is Analyzing
These questions have been posed before: are we writing for the book or the reader? Is the modern publishing machine destroying the integrity of the novel? Taking a look at Kobo’s creepy digital reader engagement analytics, Joseph Bernstein tells us to calm down: It’s true that engagement analytics pose a highly abstract threat to a […]
...moreYear One of Day One
Whether Amazon proves friend or foe to the literary cause, its year-old literary journal Day One seems to be putting everyone in an awkward position. Boris Kachka covers its birthday party for Vulture: Genres sell briskly as e-books, while the literary mid-list is still largely hand-sold in physical bookstores, so the Amazon authors hurt most […]
...moreGetting in Line
With its essential formatting and intricate detail, poetry initially faced difficulties adapting to a convenience-oriented digital market. Luckily, technological advances in e-book publishing have made it possible to preserve the medium in its intended form.
...moreIn Defense of Publishers
The rise of digital self publishing has rekindled old arguments about the value of publishers. Authors often criticize publishers as merely providing packaging for their hard work. At BookRiot, Susie Rodarme explains the value of a good publisher: Publishers know books. They know the industry upside down and inside out. They don’t just provide a printing and […]
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