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Six Red Poetry Books

 As a follow-up to my earlier Six Pink Poetry Books post, I present: Six Red Poetry Books!                   Fiona Tinwei Lam, Enter the Chrysanthemum. Designer: David Drummond. Naomi Guttman, Wet...

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Faber Poetry Typographical Covers

    I love these Faber and Faber Poetry books, designed by Justus Oehler of Pentagram. This series uses color so beautifully, setting up the rule of three colors (one for the background, one for the...

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These Books Are Totally Glitchin’

This is an interesting idea for print-on-demand book covers and looks cool, too.  Design student Michael Kosmicki created this series of covers as an entry in the 2009 D&AD Student Awards...

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Feedbooks Shows Free E-books Can Have Nice Covers

I started reading books on my iPod Touch a couple of months ago. One of the first things I downloaded (for Stanza) was a free version of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, which I’d never read before....

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Illustrator Laura Carlin for the Folio Society

I’m gazing longingly at the Folio Society website, particularly this lovely clothbound edition of Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier, illustrated by Laura Carlin.     Here’s an interior illustration:...

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When Publishing Is More Than Publishing

Publication Studio Makes A Book from Mike Merrill on Vimeo. I was reading the local newspaper this morning and came across an interesting article about a print-on-demand publisher called Publication...

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Why NOT Judge a Book by Its Cover?

From an early age we are warned not to judge a book by its cover, but now that I am an adult, I question this advice. Why can’t we judge a book by the cover? Isn’t that why new books are displayed face...

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Borges’s Library of Babel

Back in April I posted about these beautiful novels published by Les éditions du Panama. The Paris-based publishing house went out of business in July. It’s a shame—they put out a lot of lovely books,...

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Children’s Books . . . for Adults

[Image from Curious Pages] I stumbled upon a great blog called Curious Pages that features interesting children’s picture books. The subtitle for the site is “recommended inappropriate books for kids,”...

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Margaret Atwood U.K. Book Covers

Finally, a book cover that does justice to the work of Margaret Atwood! Beautiful. Too bad for us Americans that it’s the U.K. edition (here’s the U.S. hardcover: http://www.yearoftheflood.com/us/)....

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Out of Print but Not Out of Luck

Check out this interesting company that highlights “iconic and often out of print” book covers by putting the images onto T-shirts. The company is called, as you probably guessed, Out of Print, and...

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Crimes of the Art

Norwegian artist Gardar Eide Einarsson’s new show at Team Gallery in New York consists of a series of large black-and-white paintings based on appropriated images. One source image, it turns out, is a...

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Happy 75 Years to Penguin Books

First there was the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile and then the Peeps Fun Bus, and now there’s the Penguin Anniversary-mobile. The automobile, which commemorates the 75th anniversary of Penguin Books, will...

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Cool New Poetry Book Covers

What is it with poetry book covers? They’re so often boring or ugly. I think a major reason for the ugly ones is simply that small presses can’t afford to hire a proper designer. And there’s an...

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Bookstore Readings

Do you attend bookstore readings? I am fortunate to live in Portland, Oregon, home to many bookstores, including the venerable Powell’s Books. I could probably go to a bookstore reading on a daily...

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Smokin’ Books

If you like the idea of super compact books that will fit into your pocket but aren’t keen on reading books on a small digital device such as an iPhone, there is still hope! U.K. company TankBooks has...

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The Evolution of Book Clubs

Book clubs are pretty amazing things. I don’t belong to one at the moment, but I would say 80 percent of my friends are members of book groups. I really believe there is a book group for everyone....

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Now THAT Is What I Call a Book Tour

There are probably plenty of writers out there who kind of dread book tours, but author Jim Lynch isn’t one of them, or at least he isn’t at the moment—he has found a way to combine pleasure with...

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New Bookstore Fills Unique Niche

It’s supposed to be a bad economic climate for brick-and-mortar bookstores, and it seems booksellers are closing their doors left and right. It might come as a surprise, then, to hear about the...

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Who’s Got Bieber Fever?

I was going to write about Portland State University’s partnership with Hewlett-Packard and Lulu to create print-on-demand books, but then I came across this video. It may not be more newsworthy than...

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