Douglas Rushkoff & "Program or Be Programmed"
I linked to this in a post the other day, but attached below is the complete interview I did with Douglas Rushkoff about our digital world, his new book, and why he decided to publish with OR Books. This interview originally appeared here. And I want to publicly thank Ed Nawotka for running this in its entirety even though ...
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Douglas Rushkoff's Optimism about the Book Industry
PW‘s Soapbox pieces can be a bit hit-or-miss, but the one this week from Douglas Rushkoff (author of several books, including Life, Inc., which, along with Gaddis’s JR, should be mandatory reading for all business school students) is pretty fantastic. There’s nothing particularly new in Rushkoff’s ...
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Predatory Pricing, or, What Happens in a Country Without a Fixed Book Price Agreement
Following on last week’s post about the benefits (or in the eyes of Kim Heijdenrijk, the non-benefits) of a Fixed Book Price Agreement, I found this article by Stacy Mitchell about the shift in book sales from B&N and Borders to Costco, Target, Wal-Mart, etc. It’s a pretty interesting piece about the impact ...
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Bookstore of the Month: The Booksmith (San Francisco)
We’re a couple days behind, but this month’s featured bookstore is The Booksmith in San Francisco’s historic Haight Ashbury neighborhood. The store opened in 1976 by Gary Frank, who recently sold the store to Christin Evans and Praveen Madan. The Booksmith has a long history of hosting great events, and ...
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Life Incorporated
A few weeks ago we posted a brief interview that Jason Boog of GalleyCat conducted with Douglas Rushkoff about conglomerates and the media. This interview tied into Rushkoff’s latest book — Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back — which is a fantastic critique of the rise of ...
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Douglas Rushkoff Tells It Like It Is
Over at Galley Cat Jason Boog posted a two-minute video with Douglas Rushkoff (whose new book Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back is at the very top of my galley reading stack) about media conglomerates. Not necessarily anything that hasn’t been said before, but I love the line ...
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Dubravka Ugresic on the Internets
Over the past week or so, Dubravka’s book (Nobody’s Home) has been making its way around the internet, garnering some really nice praise along the way. First off, it received a great review (4 out of 5) by Gwen Dawson at the always excellent Literary License. And then yesterday, Douglas Rushkoff (whose ...
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