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Jorge Carrión: sete argumentos contra a Amazon

 Jorge Carrión, o autor de Livrarias, assina um artigo publicado no Literary Hub: «Against Amazon, Seven Arguments, One Manifesto»:

On the last World Book Day Amazon revealed what were the most underlined sentences in five years of their Kindle platform. If you read on your device, they find out everything about your reading habits. On which page you give up. Which page you finish. How fast you read. What you underline. The great advantage of a print book is not its portability, durability, autonomy or close relationship with our processes of memorizing and learning, but the fact that it is permanently disconnected.

When you read a print book, the energy and data you release through your eyes and fingers belong only to you. Big Brother can’t spy on you. Nobody can take that experience away or analyze and interpret it: it is yours alone.

 

Quer saber tudo sobre NY?

Está aí o volume que reúne os diários de Tina Brown à frente da Vanity Fair. Para já, leia a crítica do The New York Times: «If these diaries have a theme, it’s status anxiety. There was no finer moment than the ’80s to explore status anxiety. The book teems with gossip from that bygone era, with the Kissingers, Reagans and a thousand high-haired socialites in starring roles. (Along with our current president. “It feels, when you have finished it, as if you’ve been nose to nose for four hours with an entertaining con man, and I suspect the American public will like nothing better,” Brown writes in 1987, having just decided to excerpt “The Art of the Deal.”)» 

Espanha, país tema de Frankfurt em 2021

Foi ontem assinado o protocolo para que Espanha seja o país convidado da Feira do Livro de Frankfurt em 2021. O ministro da Cultura de Espanha está apostado em «mostrar tanto a diversidade como a inovação do sector cultural e criativo» — «no solo en el sector del libro sino en otros sectores como el de los videojuegos o la gastronomía». Ou seja, os livros vão lá pelo meio; há muito tempo que um anúncio do país convidado em Frankfurt não era tão ridículo e tão estapafúrdio.