From Wired, a small press growing, how could it be? From old to new media, blog begets publishing house. If you want proof that a cultural divide separates Europe and America, the book business is a place to start. A review of How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard (and an interview). Jeremy Brosowsky saw a business opportunity and created Brijit, a Web site that creates 100-word abstracts of articles from dozens of magazines and rates them. Mark of Zotero: If you do research online, there’s a new digital tool that will make your life much easier. Scott McLemee plugs in. From The New Yorker, Anthony Grafton on the future of reading: Digitization and its discontents. Libraries shun deals to place books on Web: Several major research libraries have rebuffed offers from Google and Microsoft to scan their books, instead signing on with a nonprofit effort. A review of Books on Fire: The Destruction of Libraries throughout History by Lucien X. Polastron. From Britannica, a series of articles on allegedly haunted libraries across the US and the world.
