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Apt’s links for March 28th through March 30th
YouTube – Charlotte Roche on Wetlands – Something to cheer you up, James. Via 5th Estate. Maybe if it was me, I’d put an URL at the end of it so the German perv-hounds know where they can go buy it. That is assuming it’s not already on Scrib’d.
Financial Times 2020 – FT 2020.com – [...]
Published: March 31, 2009. Read more →
Apt’s links for March 24th
Why social DRM makes sense: Wise words from book maven Mike Shatzkin | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home – “The best social DRM is to sell a product in a way that makes your customers appreciate you enough to shun the idea of taking advantage of you. It?s called ?value-added? products.” (in comments)
Nathan Bransford – [...]
Published: March 25, 2009. Read more →
Apt’s links for March 22nd through March 23rd
Discount dash | theBookseller.com – “Half a billion pounds is an eye-popping sum. That is the wad of cash the UK book trade gave away in discounts last year, its highest number ever, with the amount for the last two years approaching the billion-pound mark.”
Redacted: The Book Bench: Online Only: The New Yorker – “one [...]
Published: March 24, 2009. Read more →
Apt’s links for March 18th through March 19th
party perfect: weekend project #2 – “Last week we bought my son a ‘first words’ book. It had some common words like ‘car’ and ‘ball’- but the car didn’t look like ours and the neon orange soccer ball didn’t look like any we owned. So I thought it might be nice to create a first [...]
Published: March 20, 2009. Read more →
Overview of the Indian Publishing Industry
These are my very incomplete notes from meetings in India in January and February of 2009, when I was part of a British Council study tour of Japiur, Delhi and Kolkata. Individual events have been written up here, and there is a Flickr set here, if you are interested, pooled from all members of the [...]
Published: March 18, 2009. Read more →
Apt’s links for March 16th through March 17th
Charlie’s Diary: Reminder: why there’s no tipjar on this blog – “Your typical book publisher is not like the music or movie industry; they run on thin margins, and they’re staffed by underpaid, overworked folk who do it because they love books, not because they’re trying to make themselves rich on the back of a [...]
Tina Brown Interviewed by Tarun Tejpal from Tehelka, (UKYPE 09)
Somewhat delayed post from our recent trip to India – notes from “The Nature of the Beast” Tina Brown in conversation with Tarun Tejpal at the Japiur Literature Festival, January 24th 2009.
[Written as part of our visit to India with the British Council. All such posts will be listed in a dedicated category; apologies if [...]
Published: March 14, 2009. Read more →
Quietube: YouTube without the distractions
Hello! Here’s a little treat from the Apt Labs. We got bored with all the comments and crud on YouTube, so we built Quietube – think of it as Readability for your favourite videos.
A little bookmarklet lets you easily and quickly generate a nice, clean page – and a short URL from any YouTube page. [...]
Published: March 13, 2009. Read more →
Apt’s links for March 12th
#122 Moleskine Notebooks « Stuff White People Like – “This particular type of notebook is very expensive and was quite popular with writers and artists in the olden days. Needless to say, these are two properties that are highly coveted in the white community. In fact, it?s a good rule of thumb [...]
Apt’s links for March 10th through March 11th
Sebastien Tellier?s L?Amour et La Violence by Roman Coppola | Promo News – “Through a combination of the film look ? including marvellously clunky reverse zooms ? and Sebastien?s hirsuteness, it has a delightful Seventies vibe.”
Gordon Burn on the paintings of Gerhard Richter | Art and design | The Guardian – “I realise now that [...]
Published: March 12, 2009. Read more →