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* 115 indie bookstores opened last year. This is the third straight year with more than 100 openings.
* The former chair of the Booker prize thinks the Quills is the way to go with regard to book prizes. I would add some infruriated remarks right here if the Literary Saloon hadn't already said everything that can be said on the topic
* The inventor of the iPod thinks "The whole conception" of Amazon's Kindle "is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore." Not so sure I agree. It seems that if you have a product that at least 60 percent of America might use, you're not limiting your market. Besides, maybe the Kindle will re-popularize reading, just like the iPod popularized scooting around with music glued to your ears at every conceivable instant.
* This Space finds it a little funny that Ian McEwan prefers the soft-peddled bigotry of Arts & Letters Daily to the "road rage" approach found in other blogs. I would agree. Are malicious thoughts the worse because they're presented in plain sight?
* Exactly. Shame on the LAT for giving this blowhard a podium.
re McEwan: He is obviously one of those many elder figures who has heard about but not actually read the better literary blogs; as for the poor ones (the bombasts), what can you do? A rotten apple ruins the lot.
Posted by: Daniel | January 22, 2008 at 05:55 AM
tampons are a flawed product because over 60% of the population does not menstruate. do the math.
Posted by: tito | January 22, 2008 at 04:53 PM