Blog
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Goodbye disposable books! Hello new canvases!
28 September 2010
Anyone who says they know what the future holds for books is lying. All we know is that things will change. That things are changing. And it’s pretty exciting. Will we still have printed pages in book form? Will everything be screen based? Will digital information be so diversified that we won’t care?
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The imperfection of noses
20 September 2010
We’re counting down from ten with greater anticipation than a family of London visitors at 5 minutes to 12 outside Hamleys on a cold autumn city Sunday.
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Kevin, Shirley, Shandy and PayPal
16 September 2010
This is Kevin and Shirley from C&C Printers over in China. They’re holding up a copy of Tristram Shandy which made us smile. You’ll be happy to know that boxes have made it safe and sound off the vessel and to our warehouse in Somerset.
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OOCL-Soton here you come!
04 September 2010
We spoke to Stuart from Southampton container port’s security unit earlier this week, to find out if we’d be able to hang out in the container port and see ‘our ship’ of Shandy’s come in on slow-boat from China. “You’re mad” he said.
And anyway, “the computer says no”.
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The Corporate Athlete Says...
27 August 2010
Like the Corporate Athlete says, it’s all about keeping things in perspective, remembering what’s important and eating at short intervals to maintain blood sugar levels.
Apparently.
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Can Franzen do for us what Google can't?
20 August 2010
Last weekend, I read an article about Jonathan Franzen’s new book: the “sequel” to The Corrections. The article was just like any other, tucked away in The Observer’s pages. Page 23 actually. All week I couldn’t get the piece out of my head and kept wondering just how much of a typical news piece it really was. In fact, I’m beginning to think it wasn’t just-another-article after all, but rather a sheepish attack on the future of literature.