Amazon’s November 2007 release of the Kindle changed everything. While ebooks and e-readers had been available in varying forms since the 1970s (Project Gutenberg began in 1971 and the first handheld e-reader, the Rocket eBook, was released in 1998), the dawn of the Kindle created questions surrounding the act of reading itself, gripping the fearful imagination of the publishing world. Though trends and headlines alike … Continue reading A Tale of Two Forms: the Rise of eBooks and the Online Bookseller

“Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.” -Virginia Woolf, “Street Haunting” It ought to be a … Continue reading The Serendipity of Second-hand Booksellers

Though this blog is an assignment for a publishing course at my university, I am hoping that its use will spring outside of those boundaries of requirement and become as much a constant in my life as journaling has come to be. While journals and blogs both often serve as cartographers of the mind through plotting the myriad variations in opinion and thought, there is … Continue reading An Introduction