Episode 78: Digital and Bookstores

Feb 15, 2012 by donny

Bookbabble Episode 78: Digital and Bookstores 
Recorded 12 Feb  2012
Babblers: Renee, Bjorn, Donny

Synopsis:

We’re back! After more than a year, Bjorn, Renee and I get back to have a chit-chat about the state of ebooks and how it’s affecting independent bookstores. Also, Renee’s Charles Dickens recommendations, Downton Abbey, BBC’s Sherlock, Rifftrax.com, and the evil comfortable sofa.

Show Length: 1:25

Show Notes:

• Cave of forgotten dreams, Werner Herzog
• The Orbitor Trilogy, Mircea Cartarescu
• Rifftrax.com

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New Home, New Look for the New Year

Feb 10, 2011 by donny

2011 is well and truly underway, and for those of us who celebrate it, hope you had a great Lunar New Year last week. 

We’ve now moved to our new webhost, and to commemorate the change, I’ve changed the look and feel for the site.  Over the coming weeks we’ll hopefully start filling this place up with, you know, actual content.

Let us know how you like it.

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Moving Soon.. oh, and Happy Holidays!

Dec 24, 2010 by donny

It has been a long time.  Sorry for the long, cold, drought of sound and laughter from Bookbabble-land.  We are still around, and have most recently recorded an episode just last Sunday.  Due to work commitments, the post-production work on the podcast has been delayed.

I wanted to make an announcement – we’re going to be moving web hosts pretty soon.  I’m consolidating to a single hosting provider, and take will make managing the site easier for me (background stuff, don’t worry about it).  What you need to know, however, is there should be no impact to you at all – everything else will still work as it always had been (well, too bad the post-production for episodes are still on my lap, and not on the web host’s).

When will this move take place?  Before the year is out.

In any event, I wanted to take this opportunity to wish everyone Happy Holidays!

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-07

Nov 7, 2010 by donny

• Winners of the 2010 World Fantasy Awards [Awards] http://j.mp/adcJo8 #
• Top 20 Horror Reads http://j.mp/9nvalS #
• Best Books of 2010: Counting Down Amazon's Top 100 http://j.mp/9eivbS #
• Amazon’s Best Books of 2010: Top 10 Science Fiction/Fantasy http://j.mp/c9GD4g #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-24

Oct 24, 2010 by donny

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Spreadsheet http://j.mp/cSIaWo #
• 15 classic science fiction and fantasy novels that publishers rejected [Triviagasm] http://j.mp/dD83oA #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-19

Sep 19, 2010 by donny

• RT @bookninja: Is Oprah going for Freedom by Franzen? http://www.bookninja.com/?p=8650 #

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Ep 74: World Cup Chat – Part 2

Aug 29, 2010 by donny

Bookbabble Episode 74: World Cup Chat – Part 2
Recorded 21 June  2010
Babblers: Marcel, Bjorn, Donny

Synopsis:

This is one of the strangest, most languid chit-chat in Bookbabble’s short history.  This episode drops you right in the middle of a football match watched by the boys in three different countries – simultaneously.  And still somehow manage to talk about horror movies, private parts and racism.  Oh, and football related books and movies too.  (Yeah, it would have been better if this episode came out, oh, about 2 months sooner, but hey, at least you get to see how well we did our predictions).

Be warned, this is a rambling, totally unedited show.

Show Length: 1:37:24

Show Notes:

• The Kilburn Social Club by Robert Hudson – Times Online
• Amazon.com: The Kilburn Social Club (9780099526261): Robert Hudson: Books
• Amazon.com: The Damned Utd (9780571224333): David Peace: Books
• Amazon.com: Brilliant Orange The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer (9781590200551): David Winner: Books
• Amazon.com: Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey–and Even Iraq–Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World’s Most Popular Sport (9781568584256): Simon Kuper, Stefan Szymanski: Books
• Amazon.com: Soccer Against the Enemy: How the World’s Most Popular Sport Starts and Fuels Revolutions and Keeps Dictators in Power (9781568586335): Simon Kuper: Books
• Amazon.com: Dynamo: Defending the Honour of Kiev (9781841153193): Andy Dougan: Books
• Fußball unterm Hakenkreuz – Schriftenreihe (Bd. 519)
• Ivorien = Et voit rien = And doesn’t see anything
• Gareth Thomas (rugby player) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• http://i40.tinypic.com/jq5l3t.png
• Cronos (film) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Amazon.com: Henning Mankell: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle
• Amazon.com: Let the Right One In: A Novel (9780312355296): John Ajvide Lindqvist, Ebba Segerberg: Books
• True Blood
• Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet?

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