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guardian.co.uk - 20 days ago
Penguin flogs it (and sells some books)
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What's the most depressing piece of Penguin merchandising? Notebooks featuring the classic covers of much-loved titles that cost more than the novels themselves Few publishers are brands the way Penguin is a brand. Launched in 1935, its fame owes much to its earliest titles : their covers, ...

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Obsessed by heroes and villains
BrontëBlog — ... whole family was obsessed by heroes and villains of the day– specially Napoleon and Wellington,” said Mrs Dinsdale The items are now on display at the Bronte Parsonage Museum as part of an exhibition on Charlotte Bronte. (Clive White) (Picture source)To watch the video, go to the article or click here. The Brontë Parsonage Blog also reports the new arrival. Anthony Cummins, from the Guardian, writes: What's the most depressing piece of Penguin merchandising? ...

Hail, Penguintania
MOBYLIVES — ... But now, Cummins writes in a withering commentary at The Guardian, “the cover of Penguin’s 1960 edition of Lady Chatterley’s Lover –- considered by many to be a symbol of deep cultural change –- adorns the side of a mug that ‘will brighten up even the most tired kitchen shelf.’” ...

Amazon’s Twitter Scheme Draws Fire, “E-galley” System Unveiled, and More
Poets & Writers - From Inspiration to Publication — ... ). Coffee mugs, branded notebooks, towels, and deck chairs emblazoned with classic book covers: Is Penguin “flogging its illustrious history”? ( Guardian ) Galley Grab, an “e-galley” platform unveiled yesterday by Simon & Schuster, will let editors, reviewers, and other industry insiders access upcoming titles through portable reading devices ( ...

Friday Bookish Buzz: T'is the Season
book-a-rama — ... *Are school libraries and librarians becoming extinct? *I saw a few of these Penguin Classics at the bookstore and nearly ruined the covers with my drool. Meet the cover designer on Design*Sponge. *Well, that's one way to avoid the word "banning" though why shouldn't our children read controversial books? *You don't have to wait for the movie. You can see New Moon in a condensed version- now with Barbies! *Did Penguin sell out? I don't know but I love those mugs and these ...

Friday Bookish Buzz: 'Tis the Season
book-a-rama — ... *Are school libraries and librarians becoming extinct? *I saw a few of these Penguin Classics at the bookstore and nearly ruined the covers with my drool. Meet the cover designer on Design*Sponge. *Well, that's one way to avoid the word "banning" though why shouldn't our children read controversial books? *You don't have to wait for the movie. You can see New Moon in a condensed version- now with Barbies! *Did Penguin sell out? I don't know but I love those mugs and these ...

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3:AM Magazine — ... Make your own academic sentence (or, the PoMo-babble generator, as Maud Newton calls it) & We are all Tao Lin & The Short Review interview Eliis Sharp & Comics & politics with Clt.Alt.Shift (Bryan Talbot, Dave McKean) & The Comica Festival & 70 things you didn’t know about Marvel & In fetishising Penguin’s book covers, are we in danger of losing sight of what made them so ...

The nesting instinct
theBookseller.com — The nesting instinct 19.11.09 Was Anthony Cummins right to suggest in the Guardian that fetishising these [Penguin classic] book covers by using the iconic designs to decorate merchandise is to compromise Allen Lane's original vision of bringing quality books to the people at affordable prices? He pokes at the concept of lifestyle, a term used in the promotion of the products, but didn't he miss something fundamental? A basic human instinct is to nest-build to collect objects to make us feel comfortable and at home in our own space and give us pleasure. That passion for ...