It's Unstoppable!
More on the LongPen via GalleyCat: After limited success with Margaret Atwood’s device at the Edinburgh Book Festival – enabling Norman Mailer and Alice Munro to make “appearances” – the book-tour substitute device will make its debut into a record store and several bookstores in Canada, the ...
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Just to Pile On a Bit
So after commenting on the ridiculous LongPen a couple of times in the past week, I sat down to read the September issue of Harper’s last night and found this item in the “Readings” section from the LongPen website: Where did the idea come from? As I was whizzing around the U.S. on yet another ...
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Still Not a Believer
Despite Bookninja’s report that over 700 people lined up to get books signed by the LongPen at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, I still refuse to believe this thing is going to catch on. For those unfamiliar few, the LongPen is a huge machine that allows readers in one place to “communicate” ...
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