“iBooks App Arrives for the iPad”

(via Gizmodo)

“Former Book Designer Says Good Riddance To Print”
(via NYT’s Bits Blog, images larger via Craig Mod’s “Books in the age of the iPad”)

introducing the new Penguin Classics: the RED series

“Penguin has collaborated with AIDS awareness fund (RED) and a team of designers to produce new covers for eight Penguin Classics. Each cover replaces the usual black band with red, employing a quote from the text of the book as the visual hit..”
—more on CR blog

(discovered via Creative Review, above design by Gray318)

I still have atleast the first 20 books stored in my parent’s house…My mom has threatened to toss my childhood collection many times.

redesignrelated:

The Baby-Sitter’s Club book series to get cover redesigns with relaunch of backlist

In April 2010, Scholastic will publish repackaged titles from Ann M. Martin’s “The Baby-Sitter’s Club” series along with a prequel titled The Summer Before. We aren’t sure what the redesigned covers for the first 20 books in the series will look like, but we spotted a thumbnail for the prequel on the NYT site (seen above).

“…The Baby-Sitters Club, which ran from 1986 through 2000, garnered an ardent following among preteenage girls throughout its run of 213 titles, with the publisher ultimately printing 176 million copies. The series, which followed the baby-sitting adventures and friendships of four 12-to-13-year-old girls — Kristy, Mary Anne, Claudia and Stacey (the cast expanded to eight main characters later in the series) — spawned several spinoffs, including a mystery series and a collection of books about Kristy’s little sister. All of the books are now out of print…” —via New York Times

“How 3.6 Zettabytes of Data Get Consumed”
(discovered via Gizmodo)

Going West book animation for the New Zealand Book Council
(via design:related via swissmiss)

“Penguin designs should be seen beyond the bookshelf” (article via guardian.co.uk)

typographic illustration for The New York Times Magazine
by Matt W. Moore

“One Hour Design Challenge: The Future of Digital Reading”
(discovered Core77)

Reading Tray concept by Yu-Hun Kim
(discovered via Fubiz)

Oprah has announced her new book club pick,
Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan
(published by Little, Brown and Company/Hachette)

Cover design by Keith Hayes
Cover photography by David Sacks

redesigns for Penguin Books by Richard Green
(discovered via Noisy Decent Graphics)

“Various Approaches to the Problem of Sherlock Holmes:
Recent approaches to a much-covered subject…”
(via Caustic Cover Critic, above illustrated by Michael Kirkham)