A rather kidlit-centric update

Housekeeping: Don't forget to e-mail me to make hotel reservation changes, request theater-seating tickets, or reserve your spot on the Brooklyn Bridge tour with Kevin Baker.

Actual content: I'm sure the latest Omnibus post is the highlight of your Fridays, but every other week, there's something even better: Fine Lines, Jezebel's nostalgia-filled look at past young adult favorites, is back!

Jezebel also scores a hit with their newly minted children's-book slang. (For my part, I wander into Granger Danger territory with unfortunate frequency.) Link courtesy of The Longstockings.

Titles: Join the ShelfTalkers in sharing your favorite title manglings, and then click over to Schott's Vocab to invent some new ones.

Are you a fan of Vroman's blogger Patrick Brown? The Big Bad Book Blog interviewed him this week.

Mike Shatzkin offers his take on how independent bookstores should deal with e-books - as simply as possible. (If you're interested, he's hiring.)

Kat Meyer and Charlotte Abbot have independents' collective backs this week too - not only did they host a discussion of bookstore-blogger relationships, they saved all the relevant tweets in a format that's both chronological and legible!

Colleen Mondor asks what's up with all the twelve-year-olds in recent fiction - including this month's #1 Indie Next List title.

Bookseller Alex Green receives our second metaphor-of-the-week award for this gem: "Innovation is like a greedy child, its will and appetite outpacing its emotional maturity."

Last week Tim O'Reilly explained why he wants to "reinven[t] the book for the age of the Web." This week's Foreign Policy's Evgeny Morozov explains why we really don't need to. Both are worth reading.

Posted at 03:24PM May 08, 2009 by Sarah Rettger in General  |