by Joel Friedlander | May 3, 2010 | Self-Publishing, Social Media
Yesterday’s New York Times Magazine had a brief and cheery write up by Virginia Heffernan in a section called The Medium. Heffernan uses the release of last year’s numbers of books published to contrast the self-publishers of old, disrespected by the...
by Joel Friedlander | Feb 17, 2010 | Book Design, Book Production
Mark Barrett over on Ditchwalk, is trying to figure out the epub and pdf translation processes from the point of view of an author who wants to move his work into the public sphere. When authors start having to roll up their sleeves and get under the hood of...
by Joel Friedlander | Dec 17, 2009 | Book Design
Like all other print media, magazine publishers are feeling the heat of digital text and multimedia applications as the tide of digitization continues to roll over old industries. Traditional ways of getting content to readers are changing fast, and print designers...
by Joel Friedlander | Dec 1, 2009 | The Joel Friedlander Archives
Today’s New York Times carried an interesting story about the author Cormac McCarthy and his decision to sell his trusty typewriter, an Olivetti Lettera 32. Here’s how Wikipedia cited the Times story: Cormac McCarthy used an Olivetti Lettera 32 to write...