There’s already been some lively debate about Amazon offering full-text searching for a good chunk of its books. My personal opinion is that it’s just going to wind up favoring big publishers over small ones because they are going to be more likely to offer these incentives to Amazon [as well as to be well-represented there to begin with, my small-press title doesn’t even have a snappy-looking book cover shot to accompany it.] They are also more over a barrel in terms of ceding to Amazon’s wishes to make this “feature” available. Of course the addition of full-text searching makes their already not-so-great search work more poorly, but then again I never did use Amazon for anything except known item searches to track down ISBNs.
merch, if you’re into that sort of thing
The “Dangerous Reader” store is up. If you’re interested in getting a bumpersticker, baby t-shirt or other merch with the “I read therefore I’m dangerous” slogan, go to it. Jason Pettis runs it and he is donating proceeds to the ACLU to help them fight the PATRIOT Act.
hi
Hi. I made my reservations to go to ALA in San Diego. If anyone is going and wants to meet up for coffee or kvetching, drop me a line. I’ll be at all the Council meetings, other than that, I’m not sure.
canadia represent!
Since ALA, we all have known that the Canadian library schools are really putting out some top librarian talent. But who knew they had a fashion sense as well. The students from the SLIS at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia are hawking some mighty fine librarian t-shirts, possibly ones even too racy to wear to work. And, “action figure” aside, my favorite one has to be the NLA shirt. [thanks all]
way to go!
Other trends I am fond of… precision book truck drill teams. This one won first place! Longer list of library teams is here.