Alane Salierno Mason (from Words Without Borders) Diagnoses Literature in Translation (in USA)

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One Thousand Casmurros

Just to change the subject a little bit, but not that much. At the end of 2008, the biggest TV Channel in Brazil produced a TV show based on the book Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis. To promote the show, they created a website called Mil Casmurros (or One Thousand Casmurros). — Casmurro is [...]

The future of the book in 1984

Nicholas Negroponte, one of the creators of MIT Media Lab, talks about the future of the book in 1984 (around the 8th minute). Then the future was the Internet, but Internet is already there for 10 years and the book keep going. How the next future of the book will look [...]

Cool

TurnipFish from Conor on Vimeo. (Unfortunatelly it’s impossible to embed vimeo videos on WordPress, so you will need to click at the link)
Watch for a while and see what happens…
Via if:book

The Futures of the Book According to Penguin

“In this future everyone is a publisher, but where are the editors?”
Thanks, Janneke!

Why We Fight

I keep wondering if translators will do the same one day…
Via fade theory

Goodbye, textbooks; hello, open-source learning

It’s not new, but it’s very interesting.
Via Bernardo.

Take a seat/ Cadeiras ambulantes

Essas simpáticas (ou assustadoras?) cadeirinhas ambulantes estão em uso na Openbare Bibliotheek Eindhoven (Biblioteca Pública de Eindhoven). Quando vi pensei duas coisas:1. Gente, não é mais fácil fazer um banco leve que dê para levar para cá e para lá?2. A vingança das cadeiras: na hora que vc vai sentar, [...]

BookGlutton

BookGlutton is a reading community that will be available to the public next month.
Via if:book
P.S.: Apparently if you register yourself in the site, after a couple of days you receive a password to use it. At least it worked for me, but I don’t know if they have a limited number [...]

Visionary

I really would like to watch this documentary film.
More information on Kevin Kelly website.