I’ve mentioned Rob Walker’s blog, Murketing, with its series of posts tagged Books: the Idea, a “continuing series of images, and occasionally quoted words, dealing with the idea of books.” My friend Sharon wrote the other day that Walker summarized the blog series in a recent NY Times Sunday magazine column called Creative New Uses for Books, with the intro
In July, Amazon.com announced that, during the previous three months, it sold more e-books than hardback books. This may or may not portend something about the future of the form in which long chunks of text are published. But what about the future of the long chunks of text that have already been published as physical objects with paper pages bound between covers? There are, after all, many such things around.
Sharon was particularly taken by a website Walker mentions, inhabitat.com. And I enjoyed re-reading Books as Furniture by Nicholas Baker (you need to subscribe to the New Yorker to read it online, but as a substitute, the Hoefler & Frere-Jones blog has a nice post on it here.)