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Copyright extension is bad for books, bad for culture, and bad for (almost all) businesses

Jan 18

Deaths in 2022, the public domain in 2023, and people pretending to be robots pretending to be people

Dec 31, 2022

Or, can you still succeed in publishing just by working hard, writing well, and reading a lot?

Feb 1

Looking back on Musement's first full year

Dec 28, 2022

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And a few other observations on Katherine Rundell's life of John Donne

Dec 20, 2022

A Review of Peter Brooks's Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative

Dec 13, 2022

Or, how to turn the internet into an ebook

Dec 4, 2022

Forgotten Types, Drowned Types, Messages Hidden in Combs

Nov 30, 2022

A book review of Monte Reel's The Last of the Tribe: The Epic Quest to Save a Lone Man in the Amazon (2010)

Nov 19, 2022

Mold will consume us all, but it doesn't have to consume your books yet

Nov 13, 2022

A review of Tim Hwang's The Subprime Attention Crisis, and what it might mean for online writing

Nov 6, 2022

A review of Shaun Bythell’s bookshop diaries, by way of amateur ecology

Oct 26, 2022

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