The Book Works

The New Yorker comments on a Book Works favorite, As God Commands, by Nicolo Ammaniti. 

This is part of a post that Tim Maly made on Bookfuturism (12/17/9).

"The coming crisis of publishing is not that eReaders are worse than books, it's that in a lot of critical ways they are going to be better than books."

Are you okay with this? How does it make you feel? Happy, excited, curious, frightened, frustrated, freaked out? I don't know if you can comment on this thing or not, but you can always default to coming into the store to talk about the future of books, the future of reading -- about what the heck "social media" means. This is a new phrase to me but I guess it reflects how we, as social animals, communicate with each other. We've been using different forms of social media for thousands of years. And now there's something new, and it's moving very fast. How do we meet it? Especially those of us who aren't digital natives but also aren't planning to die anytime soon. We need to talk. All of us. 

We are delighted to inform you that Salk Professor and Book Works' silent partner Thomas Albright has been honored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) with the distinction of AAAS Fellow.

Tom Albright was honored "for his contributions to understanding the brain systems underlying visual perception and memory in primates, and the role of context in visual information processing."

The AAAS is the world's largest general scientific society and 
publisher of the journal Science.  The tradition of AAAS Fellows 
began in 1874.  The honor recognizes a person's scientifically and/
or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its 
applications.