Soft Skull News

New book blog arrives, ThreeGuysOneBook—on the one hand, just three guys who like books, on the other hand, they represent a good chunk of the literary consciousness of an enterprise called Bookazine, a company that occupies in interesting position in the book ecology/supply chain. I wish I were better educated about the history of book distribution because these guys are basically the last of a breed of wholesaler called the "jobber"—so far as I can tell, their genius was a combination of their ability to manage same-day delivery, and be able to provide pretty personalized advice to booksellers.

Anyhow, so far, they've been at it three weeks and have given us Sarvas, Benioff, and a debut called Outtakes From a Marriage.

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I still have not been able to figure out the scheduling functionality—this was supposed to go live on Sunday, but didn't...

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OK, so this is exciting, We've a button on the iPhone.

OK, so the image is of the Facebook app version of this iPhone eBook reader, but it's the same deal on the iPhone. So, if you're on your iPhone right now, go here, if you wanna check out the company here, and on Facebook here.

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Minzheimer on The Solitary Vice.

"The book is provocatively subtitled Against Reading. If that weren't enough, its title is borrowed from the Victorian euphemism for masturbation."

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Top notch speech, transcribed here. Sorry, folks, you gotta read the whole thing, even the bit at the end focused on the speaker's audience (Danes...)

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The transition for some.

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Our Beth Lapides (she of Did I Wake You?—you can get a signed copy at BEA at our booth) interviews Mary Roach.

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Where I was, as a young teenager back in the early 80s, you’d hear a band like Throbbing Gristle or Psychic TV and they’d start talking about William Burroughs, and you’d wonder who that was so you’d find out about things that way.—Jack Sargeant, describing the impulse behind the two books of his we're re-issuing this year, Deathtripping: The Cinema of Transgression and Naked Lens: Beat Cinema, an impulse that reminds of what animates so many people working in "indie" culture, you follow what you like, and sooner or later, you're doing what we do.

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Dead in Desemboque on sale in a few weeks.

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...for the 2008 Believer Book of the Year. As is Tom McCarthy, author of Tintin, in this instance for last year's novel Remainder.

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Chris Anderson isn't the only guy wondering if the price of content is heading towards zero. Mr. Marginal Revolution just noticed, too.

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