Month: July 2011

The Future of Publishing: Bleak or Rosy?

Here is a link to a video discovered by a young colleague that answers the question, what is the future of publishing. No matter what your opinion on that score, you will have to agree with at least a half of the presentation which was the brain child of U.K. publisher, Dorling Kindersley Books. Watch […]

Book length: how long is too long?

We chose Vikram Seth’s A SUITABLE BOY for reading while we were on vacation and were astounded to discover that the paperback is 1,474 pages long (591,552 words). One elderly relative had to rip it into sections so she could hold it while she read it. Wikipedia does not equivocate about this book but calls […]