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I dig your marginalia

August 4, 2009 · 1 comment

Steph Bowe - Hey! Teenager Of The YearThe quote of the day comes from YA blogger Steph Bowe:

I love it when you borrow a book from the library for school and all the relevant passages have already been underlined, all the pages you’re meant to read are dog-eared, and there are notes in the margins that match the questions you’re meant to answer.

It’s like someone knew you were going to pick it up. It’s like we’re all connected a little bit, if it’s only through notes in the margins of library books, notes and lines that shouldn’t be there, that librarians forbid, but are.
It’s like, if you look hard enough, we all have a common purpose.

I’m just not sure what it is yet.

 Amen.

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What will publishers publish in the future?

May 14, 2008

Sara Loyd, over at Pan Macmillan’s blog the digitalist, has posted the first instalment of what’s shaping up to be a superb essay on the future of publishing. Here’s an excerpt:
One of the key perception shifts that publishers need to make, then, is about the book as ‘product’. Whilst the book continues to be viewed [...]

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