Posts Tagged ‘e-book’

I wrote this article for Flavorwire about two books that take full advantage of their paper natures.  I’m not against the e-reader.  It serves a good purpose in information delivery.  But sometimes a story needs paper.  Tree of Codes and House of Leaves are two books that don’t properly translate into an electronic medium.

(photo courtesy of Visual Editions)

From Nathan Bransford…

Lane Smith illustrated Stinky Cheese Man (one of my favorite children’s books). His latest work pits a book-reading Monkey against a laptop-using Jackass.  This 1-minute book trailer says it all:

Lane Smith is interviewed by the Wall Street Journal here.