invisible armies
“The Business Of Literature Is Blowing Shit Up”
6:00 am PDT • March 23, 2013
If you love books–heck, if you even like ’em–run, don’t walk, and read this magnificent, magisterial essay by Richard Nash on their past, present and future. It’s long. Don’t be…
Steal This Book!
10:11 am PST • January 21, 2012
Nobody wants to be told that their business model is obsolete. Ask Kodak. Or Hollywood. And the publishing industry is slower on its feet than most. Bookstores don’t want to…
Welcome To The Panopticon
10:01 am PDT • August 6, 2011
And so it begins. Carnegie Mellon researchers recently combined Facebook profile pictures and PittPatt’s facial recognition software to identify supposedly-anonymous pictures from a dating site. Now they’re planning to demo…
