Category Archives: Books

Are airlines censoring movies? We'd like to know

Posted on 21 January 2009 by esme

Barry Ritholtz, who runs the excellent financial blog, The Big Picture, writes: We were combining a business trip to California (Santa Rosa, North of San Francisco) with a pleasure trip thru the vineyards of Sonoma and Napa. The onboard movie … Continue reading →

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John Mortimer, creator of Rumpole, dies at 85

Posted on 18 January 2009 by esme

One of my favorite writers, John Mortimer, has died at the age of 85. Mortimer is best know for Rumpole of the Bailey, which was turned into a TV series starring Leo McKern (who played the role to near perfection). … Continue reading →

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New York's French bookshop to shut its door

Posted on 4 January 2009 by esme

“There’s at least one man who won’t be surprised by the news that the best-known French bookshop in the USA, the Librairie de France in New York’s Rockefeller Centre, will close next September. That man is Horace Engdahl, the Nobel … Continue reading →

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Amazing books on Scribd: essays of Montaigne, Dracula

Posted on 21 December 2008 by esme

If you’re running low on cash and want to read the classics such as The Complete Essays of Michel de Montaigne, go to Scribd where you can read and download books. People upload other documents such as SEC complaints, court … Continue reading →

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The future of book publishing

Posted on 11 December 2008 by esme

Mike Elgan posts an article on Computerworld claiming that book publishers are doomed because they don’t put their books in electronic format and make them available to users via mobile devices. I don’t think books will disappear overnight, anymore than … Continue reading →

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