We are obsessed by the electronic, writes Johann Hari in The Independent: “The book – the physical paper book – is being circled by a shoal of sharks, with sales down 9 per cent this year alone. It’s being chewed by the e-book. It’s being […]
Courtesy of James Fallows: The Net Needs the News
Erik Larson has a new book out and it is already atop the charts. I’m quickly trying to finish his nonfiction hit from a few years ago, The Devil in the White City, a huge bestseller about the murders that took place during the Chicago […]
Here is an interesting take on the value the journalist brings to journalism. Is it storytelling? Or is the article itself–the finely crafted prose that brings the details into context–simply becoming a luxury by product? In his blog post, Jeff Jarvis highlights a few episodes […]