Well, in an interview to Fortune magazine, this is what a book means to Jeff Bezos, founder, president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Amazon.com. I think the definition of a book is changing. It’s getting more convenient. Now you can get a book in less than 60 seconds. But in some ways, books are [...]
Archive for June, 2010
Need we say anything?
Posted in Happenings, RMV Extension on June 29, 2010 |
Are we having difficulty, uh, concentrating?
Posted in Happenings, Technology on June 29, 2010 |
The Telegraph has an interesting article wherein the issue of whether constant use of electronic gadgets is reshaping our brains and making our thinking shallower is discussed. Also featured in the article is American author Nicholas Carr, who has written on this theme in his new book ‘The Shallows’ Mr. Carr argues in the book [...]
There will be blood…..
Posted in Books, Fiction, tagged justbooksbangalore, justbooksclc on June 28, 2010 |
The ‘Short Second Life of Bree Tanner’ by Stephenie Meyer is a companion novella to the Twilight series. It is the story of a newborn vampire, Bree Tanner, who is featured in the third book of the series, Eclipse. It is written from the viewpoint of Bree, as opposed to the rest of the series [...]
Indian ishtyle fiction?
Posted in Happenings, india, tagged justbooksbangalore, justbooksclc on June 28, 2010 |
Pardone the Eenglish but we simbly loved this article by Amrita Dutta in the Indian Express. Titled ‘A’ literature for Rs. 100, Amrita opines that grammar (& spelling) have gone out the window as India’s booming mass market for English paperbooks is churning out bestsellers & publishers are laughing all the way to the bank. [...]
JustBooks Newsletter, June 2010
Posted in Uncategorized on June 25, 2010 |
A fabulous team effort from the in-house creative & editorial team @ JustBooks. Ladies & Gentlemen, the first of the JustBooks Newsletters, for your viewing pleasure!
Does crime pay?
Posted in Books, Fiction, tagged justbooksbangalore, justbooksclc on June 24, 2010 |
Well, it just might in the short term but eventually one gets caught and then, well, one will have the luxury of time to ponder over that question & other existential dilemmas. Anyway, this is not quite a forum to discuss issues such as these. We ask the question with reference to an article that [...]
Liberator, for sure
Posted in eBook Readers, Technology, tagged justbooksbangalore, justbooksclc on June 23, 2010 |
Our first sight of this beauty was a small picture accompanied by a 5 line report in the TOI recently. Try as we could, that news report eluded us from linking to here. Meanwhile, we spotted [ the sharp eyes that we have! ] the complete review of it in Wired magazine and knew we [...]
A marriage of convenience?
Posted in eBook Readers, Technology, tagged justbooksbangalore, justbooksclc on June 22, 2010 |
In the first of its series, John Barber at The Globe and Mail says that the age of the e-reader has done nothing to kill our thirst for bloated blockbusters. Check out the full article ’The book is dead…long live the book’ here. And for book lovers contemplating buying the Kindle, here’s a add-on that [...]
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