I just finished reading Stylist magazine’s fifth anniversary issue which was guest edited by Lena Dunham. If you haven’t heard of Stylist, it’s a free weekly magazine which you can either read online or find a hard copy outside of certain tube station entrances on Tuesdays, or from various clothing shops all week. Stylist is targeted at the 20-40 year old female commuter, and content covers fashion, homeware, travel, and food. If you want to read the issue, you can download the app here. Continue reading
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Computerphile and the Kindle text problem
Recently, I have been watching a few videos on the Computerphile YouTube channel. I’ve found a few publishing related videos about typesetting, printing, and ebook text. Computerphile take the most interesting aspects of digital technology and explain them in non-abstract ways that a computing novice can understand. The Computerphile videos I’ve been interested in lately have been ‘The Kindle Text Problem’ and ‘EXTRA BITS – More on E-Reader Text Layouts’. Continue reading
Sunday Wishlist – Gone Girl on screen
On today’s Sunday Wishlist is a couple of new books that I’ve blogged about this week, as well as a film I really want to see. Continue reading
Penguin’s Little Black Classics
I’m rather (prematurely) excited about Penguin’s upcoming range of Little Black Classics. A bookish take on the Little Black Dress, Penguin are creating a set of 80 books with no more than 64 pages each to celebrate its 80th birthday. Each book is short enough to read in one sitting, just like an LBD might be worn for a few hours in the evening. The books are priced at just 80p each, and, as each book has a sequence number on the front, I can imagine that they also expect loyal customers to buy the whole range as a set. Continue reading
Harry Potter Book Night
Bloomsbury is reaching out to libraries, bookshops, and schools, asking them to join in on the new Harry Potter Book Night on the 5th February next year. You can even get involved and host a Harry Potter night in your own home! You can register here before Friday 28th November to get a free kit to help host a party. The kit ‘includes invitation templates, an event poster, games, activities and quizzes’ and is a great way to inject more fun into reading books. Continue reading
More celebrities pen books for children
Last week, Harper Collins published comedian David Baddiel’s first book for children. Though Baddiel has published four books for adults already, the release got me thinking about the current trend of celebrity children’s authors. Continue reading
America and the Man Booker Prize
Last night, the winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2014 was revealed to be Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Flanagan’s novel has been described as a ‘remarkable love story as well as a story about human suffering and comradeship’ by A.C. Grayling, the chair of the judges. It is ‘a novel of the cruelty of war, and tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love.’ It is many things, but it is not American. Continue reading
Off with a BAMB?
The co-chair of Books Are My Bag, Gail Rebuck, said at the beginning of the weekend, ‘last year Books Are My Bag was a campaign, this year it’s a phenomenon.’ BAMB 2014 has just finished, but did the weekend really live up to its hype? Continue reading
Thoughts on my blog…
I created my blog and its Twitter feed (I think that’s what it’s called?!) two weeks ago now and I just wanted to write a quick post about my thoughts on it so far. Continue reading
Sunday Wishlist – Super Thursday
For this week’s Wishlist, I’ve compiled a Christmas Gift Guide which will hopefully come in handy when buying presents for fussy family members! Topically, these books were released on Super Thursday, so if you pop down to a bookshop soon they should all be in stock. Sadly, ‘15% fewer books were bought as Christmas presents in 2013 than a year earlier’, but I think books make a truly perfect present. You might be thinking that it’s much too early to be thinking about Christmas, but I wanted to demonstrate the main purpose of Super Thursday, and show how the vast majority of the new releases are published at this time with the target audience of the Christmas shopper in mind. Continue reading