If you think the future of publishing belongs to iPad, think again.
This video was posted on YouTube by Dorling Kindersley (a UK publisher) , and I think it is absolutely brilliant. Wanted to share it with you. Enjoy!!
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Brilliant! My favourite line is most certainly the one about loving the way books feel in our hands. Nothing beats that for me. Nothing. Except maybe the smell of a bookstore. And I don’t mean one with a Starbucks inside the door, either.
Thank you so much for bringing this to my attention!
Thank YOU, Lori. I was fortunate enough that my first job after university was at Penguin Books. I started in the warehouse. Thousands upon thousands of titles by Penguin, Viking, Faber & Faber, etc etc etc, all stacked two and three stories high. My job was often to find that single, misplaced, final copy of a book lost somewhere in the warehouse. At the end of each day we could buy for a few cents any books that were scuffed or marred. Then, I moved on to McLelland & Stewart. I had over 2000 books in my bachelor apartment at one point. So…. yep! I know that fragrance quite well!
Oh! I am so jealous of your work history.
That smell, the feel of a book in my hand – old, new, pristine or beat to hell, it doesn’t matter – those two things combined can lift my spirits higher than almost anything else. An old library, a bookshop, even the book exchanges that we have in the school gym… these places are my church. Everything else drifts away but the words and me.
Loved this. Thanks for sharing.
The world of book publishing is alive and well and evolving. Just think, when movable type was invented, calligraphers were put out of work. When the Xerox machine was invented, anyone could print and disseminated text.
It’s evolution baby.
Absolutely! For new writers and new publishers this is the single best time to be alive in all of history.
“Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s job with yesterday’s tools and yesterday’s concepts.”- Marshall McLuhan
I couldn’t agree more. Thanks for that great quote.
I had just started current article about being a writer today, in this time period. And wanted to thank you because your comment was what spurred me on to finish it. So thanks again!
Fabulous! I will have to share this… thank you for posting it.
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