Making books ‘discoverable’
One of the key problems facing the book publishing industry now is the decline in space for readers to discover books. As more bookstores closed the problem is how readers can connect to books.
Migrating MAMP locally hosted WordPress Multisite to live server
My walkthrough in moving MAMP locally hosted WordPress Multisite to a live server, including domain mapping
Review: Occupying Wall Street
Writers for the 99% is a collective organized during the Occupy Wall Street action to write an insider account of the movement, essential in its tracing the movement that inspired a new rhetoric in America.
March 2012
Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of an Action that Changed America by Writers for the 99% Published by OR Books, February 2012. Available exclusively online in print or ebook from OR Books. Writers for the 99% is a collective organized during the Occupy Wall Street action to write an insider account of the movement. […]
Public libraries evolve as the “third space”
Is the public library evolving beyond its roots in scholarly quiet study and the collection and storage of printed reading material
Going Digital: Encyclopedia Britannica’s New Publishing Model
It was announced this week that Encyclopedia Britannica, the oldest English-language encyclopedia, will discontinue its print edition and embrace digital publishing. The company’s digital publishing program includes an online encyclopedia for subscribers, an iPad app, e-books, and websites. No strangers to digital publishing, Britannica has espoused the digital shift since the 1980s, publishing its first online encyclopedia in 1981 and the first […]
Joan Smith: “The Canadian Georgette Heyer”
I discovered novelist Georgette Heyer when I was twelve, and her excellent regency and mystery novels have a special place in my heart. I invariably compare the humour and adroitness of her writing when I read anything else in a similar genre; Ms. Heyer always seems to maintain her position as Queen by a long […]
Review: The Beggar’s Garden (Stories) by Michael Christie
Michael Christie’s collection of stories is set in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, a rough area of the city. Read together, the stories are linked thematically by the loneliness of the characters that offers a portrait of a community in which people are struggling against separate demons. Christie is hugely successful in creating compelling characters, whose voices speak from […]