Posts Tagged ‘book writing’
the copy-and-paste generation
January 8th, 2010 by lifeproof
A recent survey that was implemented by the communications consultant to the Britisth government, Jean Gross, has revealed that one fourth of British children have trouble developing speech. The survey asserts the reason for this troubled speech to be the TV that had already took the place of household conversation and interpersonal communication a long [...]
Tags: book readership, book writing, communication, communication technologies, distribution of information, generation copy-and-paste, generation y, information technologies, internet, interpersonal communication, Jean Gross, language skills, mobile communication, re-distribution of information, readership, reading, the ability to communicate, writing
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world of wordcraft
December 19th, 2009 by lifeproof
Anagram Bookshop in Prague, Czech Republic, launched an ad campaign with the title: “Words create Worlds”. The campaign is produced by the company Kaspan. I remember, one night I was trying to read Moby Dick intoxicated and under a very dim light on the floor, when I was in college. The environmental and physical factors [...]
Tags: advertising, Anagram Bookshop, book, book readership, book review, book writing, Captain Ahab, Czech Republic, Ishmael, Kaspan, Moby Dick, Prague, The Pequod, words create worlds
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A Myth: Turkish Readers
August 8th, 2009 by lifeproof
A few days ago, I have come across a TV newscast that provided the statistical information on book readership in countries. According to this survey, Japan is the most book reading country in the world with 25 books per person in one year. The list goes down to some European countries such as Switzerland with [...]
Tags: authorship, book readership, book writing, France, Japan, journalism, newscast, publishing, readership, statistics, Switzerland, Turkey
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