This artist thoughtfully destroys books to create a piece. The way she happened upon this style is rather interesting: I realized I owned many books that were no longer of use to me, or for that matter, anyone else. Would I ever need “Windows 95?” After soaking it in the bathtub for a few hours, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'books'
Paper books get pirated too
March 16th, 2011 · No Comments · opinion
If you’re from the ebooks-promote-piracy school of nonsense, remember that piracy existed way before ebooks, and is alive and well in the world of paper publishing too. In response to my post about being thankful for piracy, Australian author and Bookbee reader Sue Woolfe yesterday told of discovered a pirated copy of her debut novel [...]
Books as Art: Georgia Russell
March 15th, 2011 · No Comments · books as art
This is a Scottish artist who works with a scalpel instead of a brush or a pen, creating constructions that transform found ephemera, such as books, music scores, maps, newspapers, currency and photographs. This is one of the less satisfying finds. With most artists you can find high resolution images that display the work at [...]
Books everyone should read (word cloud)
March 14th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Here’s a rather interesting use of a word cloud. David McCandless from Information is Beautiful gathered together the results of a bunch of book polls & top 100 lists, and then made this word cloud. The full data and analysis are available here: bit.ly/BooksEveryone You can click on the image at right to see it [...]
Today’s Amazon exclusive on Einstein’s books should make you question the purpose of copyright
March 14th, 2011 · 6 Comments · Amazon, ebookstore news, opinion
Amazon announced today that they had scored another ebook exclusive. Open Road Media have just signed a contract with Amazon to provide 7 recently converted books written by Albert Einstein. The seven digital works that will be exclusive to the Kindle Store are: “Essays in Humanism”: An inspiring collection of the great thinker’s views on [...]
Tags:Amazon·axclusive·books·copyright·einstein·purpose·question·today
Books as Art: Susan Porteous
March 11th, 2011 · No Comments · books as art
Susan Porteous is a book artist whose work explores both sculptural and traditionally bound books that investigate issues of form, content, word, and image, using both handmade and commercial production methods. As always, you can find the work of other artists in the Books as Art page on the blog.
Funny or Die to branch out into books
March 11th, 2011 · No Comments · publishing news
Funny or Die, the online-video site founded by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay in 2007, will be launching a book publishing arm. The imprint’s name will be Funny or Die Books, and it follows in the footsteps of ForD forays into television and movies (Funny or Die Presents is in the middle of its second [...]
Books as Art: Alicia Martin
March 8th, 2011 · 2 Comments · books as art
Alicia Martin makes installation pieces from large quantities of books. The one above is one of her smaller works; check out the one below. You can find more of her work on Crooked Brain. I found this without credit on a Tumblr blog. Does anyone know who’s work this is? I’d like to see more.
Tags:art·books·uncredited
Suicidal books
February 26th, 2011 · 1 Comment · books as art
Does anyone know who made this? I’d like to credit the source. Thanks.
Books Are Not Retail
February 21st, 2011 · 7 Comments · opinion
Matt Blind runs a bookstore for one of the major chains here in the US. Occasionally he picks up a keyboard and gives us an inside view of bookselling. — Retail pays the rent, but isn’t what draws people into the store. For every single diehard reader that still buys books, there are: 2 homeless [...]
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