Monthly Archives: October 2009

The Wild Things Are a Lot Like Us

October 30, 2009
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My husband and I took our son, who will soon turn five, to see WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE last weekend. I figured that my son needed an antidote to his most recent movie experience– Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs–which was so inane and loud and transparently moralistic as to be inappropriate for viewers of any age. While Wild Things had the potential to be scary, I also knew that, between Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers, it would at least be interesting. Afterward, we had the following conversation: Me: What did you think of the movie? Oscar: Good...

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Great gifts for preschoolers

October 22, 2009
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Time to start thinking about what will go under the Christmas tree. I’ve already ordered these: The Little Prince pop-up book, and Hi-Ho Cherry-O. The Little Prince is one of my favorite all-time stories; I already read it to my four-year-old, and he loved it. I think the pop-up edition will be even more magical. And I have great memories of playing Hi-Ho Cherry-O as a child–picking those little plastic cherries off the tree. (Click on the link below to see a charming video of the pop-up book.)

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Nook: to share or not to share

October 21, 2009
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More confusion on Nook ereader lending policy. From Publishers Lunch: At the press conference BN said there is no limit on how many times an ebook can be lent–only that you can lend an ebook to one person at a time, and just for up to 14 days…One publisher told us that BN was initially trying to secure broader lending rights but pulled back based on broad publisher resistance…executives at most of the biggest trade houses indicated to us that they have not agreed to participate in LendMe. An article today in the New York Times makes it clear...

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BN E-Reader Nook is bad for authors

October 20, 2009
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One of Barnes and Noble’s selling points for its new e-reader, Nook, is the “sharing” feature, which the website describes thus: You can share nook to nook, but it doesn’t stop there. Using the new Barnes & Noble LendMe™ technology… you will be able to lend to and from any iPhone™, iPod touch®, BlackBerry®, PC, or Mac®, with the free Barnes and Noble eReader software downloaded on it. Which means that authors, like musicians, will have no way to protect their intellectual property from being distributed ad infinitum, without compensation. It’s one thing to lend a book to a...

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If You Follow Me

October 20, 2009
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I ran into Malena Watrous and her husband outside the Litquake party at Elbo Room in San Francisco Saturday night. Malena mentioned that she was working on her website–which reminded me that she has a book coming out next spring. Malena’s debut novel, If You Follow Me, is set in Japan. Thisbe Nissen calls it “the kind of book you finish and then clutch to your heart as you run around telling everyone you know that they have to read it.” Don’t you love the cover? Read more about the book, or be cooler than all your friends and...

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