print stinks.

Love this quote from Anna Quindlen (thanks to Utah State journalism professor, Ted Pease):

The Book

"There's no question that reading off-paper, as I think of it, will increase in years to come.... And there's no question that once again we will be treated to lamentations suggesting that true literacy has become a lost art. The difference this time is that we will confront elitism from both sides. Not only do literary purists now complain about the evanescent nature of letters onscreen, the tech aficionados have become equally disdainful fo the old form. 'This book stinks,' read an online review of the bestseller Game Change before the release of the digital version. 'The thing reeks of paper and ink.'"

--Anna Quindlen, columnist and book reader, Newsweek, April 5, 2010 (http://www.newsweek.com/id/235551)

Gets your fingers dirty, too. On the other hand, rarely leaves you cursing the spinning beachball of death. bk

just shoot me. again

When the printed word is getting harder and harder to find.... And the people who write them and print them are going broke: this just in.

According to PR NewsChannel, Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich -- you remember him? the guy who got booted from offfice for trying to sell Obama's senate seat -- just signed a six-figure deal with Phoenix Books, one of the largest independent publishing companies, to write his, er, memoirs? confession? apology?

Hideous. How much won't get written, published or read -- because this will?

From the story:

"The governor chose to go with a large independent company because he wanted to tell his story without any restrictions over content that might've come with a major publishing house," says Glenn Selig, Blagojevich's publicist and founder of The Publicity Agency. "He simply did not want to accept constraints or conditions on what he could say in this book."