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Ebooks on the decline, while audiobooks are growing? The trends described in this Miller's Book Review piece (www.millersbookreview.com/p/bookish-di... ) echo some of the same sentiments expressed in our latest catalog news post (catalog.fyi/news/catalog... ).
Bookish Diversions: Do Audiobooks Count?
A Tale of Two Devices, Task Stacking, But Is It Really Reading? Plus: The Cigar Rollers’ Pastime
www.millersbookreview.com
March 4, 2024 at 8:54 PM
Ebooks on the decline, while audiobooks are growing? The trends described in this Miller's Book Review piece (www.millersbookreview.com/p/bookish-di... ) echo some of the same sentiments expressed in our latest catalog news post (catalog.fyi/news/catalog... ).
“Perelandra’s reader-in-residence combines the solitude of the original residency tradition with the community engagement of contemporary ones, into a position that’s physically out in public, but mentally tucked away in a good book.” coloradosun.com/2024/02/28/p...
This bookshop in Fort Collins is paying people to sit down and read quietly
Perelandra Bookshop’s reader-in-residence commits to reading at the store for two hours per week in exchange for a small coffee and book stipend.
coloradosun.com
March 2, 2024 at 2:12 PM
“Perelandra’s reader-in-residence combines the solitude of the original residency tradition with the community engagement of contemporary ones, into a position that’s physically out in public, but mentally tucked away in a good book.” coloradosun.com/2024/02/28/p...
#MiddlemarchMadness integration is up and running at our Middlemarch page on catalog! If you have friends who don't have Bluesky, they can follow the madness at this page.
(scroll down to "top conversations on" -> click "bluesky")
catalog.fyi/books/middle...
(scroll down to "top conversations on" -> click "bluesky")
catalog.fyi/books/middle...
Middlemarch by George Eliot • catalog
Eliot’s epic of 19th century provincial social life, set in a fictitious Midlands town in the years 1830-32, has several interlocking storylines blended effortlessly together to form a fully coherent ...
catalog.fyi
March 1, 2024 at 3:15 AM
#MiddlemarchMadness integration is up and running at our Middlemarch page on catalog! If you have friends who don't have Bluesky, they can follow the madness at this page.
(scroll down to "top conversations on" -> click "bluesky")
catalog.fyi/books/middle...
(scroll down to "top conversations on" -> click "bluesky")
catalog.fyi/books/middle...
"Criterion’s success in marketing beautiful, strange, complex movies is the road not taken by most of Hollywood: a steadfast belief in the value of human creativity and curation over the output of any algorithm."
Sure, It Won an Oscar. But Is It Criterion?
How the Criterion Collection became the film world’s arbiter of taste.
www.nytimes.com
February 29, 2024 at 9:44 PM
"Criterion’s success in marketing beautiful, strange, complex movies is the road not taken by most of Hollywood: a steadfast belief in the value of human creativity and curation over the output of any algorithm."
"There is nothing more evangelical than a reader who truly loves a book: they will start by quoting their favourite bits, tell you to get to the nearest bookshop, and end by buying copies for everyone they know."
The secret of a bestseller? Why word of mouth beats algorithms
In the uncertain business of publishing, there is nothing more powerful than a reader who truly loves a book
www.ft.com
February 27, 2024 at 3:32 PM
"There is nothing more evangelical than a reader who truly loves a book: they will start by quoting their favourite bits, tell you to get to the nearest bookshop, and end by buying copies for everyone they know."
we'll be hosting a copy of the Bluesky #MiddleMarchMadness feed on catalog's Middlemarch page!
catalog.fyi/books/middle...
so people without a Bluesky account (nor a catalog account) will still be able to follow along there.
catalog.fyi/books/middle...
so people without a Bluesky account (nor a catalog account) will still be able to follow along there.
I think everyone's got this but just to be thorough, here's the #MiddleMarchMadness schedule with the new feed on it. If you want to be able to post to the new feed, please make a request to @markpopham.bsky.social. We start Friday! 🐋
February 26, 2024 at 7:50 PM
we'll be hosting a copy of the Bluesky #MiddleMarchMadness feed on catalog's Middlemarch page!
catalog.fyi/books/middle...
so people without a Bluesky account (nor a catalog account) will still be able to follow along there.
catalog.fyi/books/middle...
so people without a Bluesky account (nor a catalog account) will still be able to follow along there.
