Editor and artist, Leigh Riggozi, talks about putting together an anthology showcasing some of the best comic illustration that Australia and New Zealand have to offer, Blood and Thunder Anthology #2, and the launch at Books Kinokuniya in Sydney.
http://www.2ser.com/component/k2/item/3588-blood-and-thunder-anthology-2-launch-at-books-kinokuniya
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Hugh Howey’s self-published sci-fi thriller, Wool, has sold hundreds of thousands of copies as an ebook. Last fall, Howey signed a seven-figure, print-only deal with traditional publisher Simon & Schuster, and Fox and Ridley Scott have acquired the film rights.
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Legendary illustrators Drew Friedman, Al Jaffee, and Arnold Roth discuss the life and work of Harvey Kurtzman, the cartoonist, writer, and editor who was the founding editor and creator of the most important comics satire magazine in 20th-century America, MAD.
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2013/mar/19/legendary-illustrators-celebrate-mad-magazine/
The book has stayed pretty much the same for over 500 years: a bunch of paper pages between covers. It’s been both finite and easily grasped. But our digitally-connected world is forcing us to re-imagine what books could be.
Participants in the program:
Bob Stein, founder and co-director of The Institute For the Future of the Book, New York.
James Bridle, writer, publisher, editor, technologist, London.
Hugh McGuire, founder of pressbooks and libravox, co-editor of Book: A Futurist’s Manifesto, Montreal.
Kylie Mirmohamadi, professor of English, La Trobe University, Melbourne.
Sue Martin, professor of English, La Trobe University, Melbourne.
http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/2013/02/25/opening-the-book/
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David Siteman Garland interviews marketing maven Seth Godin.
http://www.therisetothetop.com/badass-blogger/seth-godin-most-revealing-interview-ever/
Gabe is joined by Adam Engst of TidBITS and Take Control Books to talk about digital publishing, eBooks and the intersection of writing and editing.
http://www.70decibels.com/generational/2013/1/20/018-digital-publishing-with-adam-engst.html
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An interview with Karen McGrane on mobile strategy from Nieman Lab.
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Young Americans are reading more than just status updates and 140-character tweets. A new study by the Pew Research Center shows that among 16- to 29-year-olds, 8 in 10 have read a book in the past year. That’s compared with 7 in 10 among adults in general.
http://www.npr.org/2012/10/23/163414069/americas-facebook-generation-is-reading-strong
Charles Dickens wrote many of his greatest works in serial form, but serial publishing has fallen by the wayside since his day. Now, it’s being revived online, and Margaret Atwood is publishing a future-dystopia novel called Positron in installments via the literary website Byliner.
http://www.npr.org/2012/12/27/167637658/margaret-atwoods-brave-new-world-of-online-publishing
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