Tag: linda nordstrom
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The Future of reading
by Linda Nordstrom (leggi in italiano) Really sorry for the delay. I was in England for a while and I was sorrow not be with all you…I think it’s pretty clear that the future of books is digital. I’m sure we’ll always have deckle-edge hardcovers and mass market paperbacks, but I imagine the physical version…
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Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
By Linda Nordstrom (leggi in italiano) Hello everyone, first I would like to make a book critical of waiting for your critical readers. For Franzen, this is the trick: not to outgrow who we are but instead to accept it, and in so doing, to accept the world of which we are a part. That’s…
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New prizes for new technologies
L’appuntamento settimanale con Linda dagli Stati Uniti (leggi in italiano) Hello Michael,I know: this part we give prizes to everyone and everything. But this time I would like to tell you what our English cousins are doing, so that here we are inventing the same thing. It was not silent, then, that digital publishing has…
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Why the book business may soon be the most digital of all media industries
New mail from USA. By Linda Nordstrom (leggi in italiano) Consider it an inauguration of sorts, a celebration of the e-book industry becoming a member of the major media club just as digital music and online video have before them. When you influence a billion dollars, people have to take you seriously. In the book…
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What happens on the other side of ocean
New mail from Usa, by Linda Nordstrom (leggi in italiano) Dear Michele, let me give a little input on what happens on this side of ocean with this editor’s note Okes of OR publishing that i’ve received this week. I hope the article will contribute to the debate on the issue of digital book that,…
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The most awards but not most talented. A photo of contemporary american literature.
Correspondence from the other side of the oceanby Linda Nordstrom Are the writers receiving the major awards and official recognition really the best writers today? Or are they overrated mediocrities with little claim to recognition by posterity? The question is harder than ever to answer today, yet it is a worthwhile exercise to attempt (along…