Aug 8, 2011 @ 4:00:00 am
Electric Literature reviews "The Waste Land" iPad app.
The Awl breaks down the case of 24-year-old hacktivist Aaron Swartz, who was indicted last July for taking nearly 5 million JSTOR documents off an MIT laptop and releasing them into the public domain.
Melville House is planning to launch what it calls HybridBooks—books with barcodes that, when scanned with smart phones, will allow readers to access supplementary material called "illuminations." Bartleby the Scrivener will come outfitted with 19th-century maps of Wall Street and recipes for ginger nuts (a Melvillean favorite?). According