nobel price in litterature 2011

At last Thomas Tranströmmer recieves the Nobel Prize in litterature 2011

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I have read the autobiography by guitarist Slash from Guns n Roses. An interesting book on metal music and industry in LA, but quite a slant on drug abuse.

book sale

THE YEARLY great booksale in Sweden right now. I bought the book "Hantering av odöda" by John Ajvide Lindqvist. The author grew up in the western part of Stockholm called Blackeberg. Ajvide Lindqvist has written a horror book called "Let the right one come in" with a setting in the Blackeberg area in the 1970-ies.

THE OLD BLOGGER I also read the fun blog by swedens great blogger "Gamma hårdrockare" (Old hard rocker). Visit him here. Sometimes I read on the infamous forum Flashback, a site where Gammal hårdrockare used to write long and interesting posts back in the days.

nobel prize

Helga Müller received the Nobel Price in Litterature this week. Congratulations goes to the Rumanian German authorin, that, in swedish Television, explained that she often work in a kind of maical way and for long times not at all. Suppose that is an ordinary way to distribuate working time and efforts for artists.
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Right now I’m reading an old book, The Kiss, written by Ulf Lundell the old Swedish rocker and multitalanted living legend. Bought the autobiography of Richard Branson the founder of Virgin media conglomerat. Also found the book Låt den rätta komma in by Ajvide Lindqvist.
There was a tweetup at friday night held at Underbara bar in Södermalm, Stockholm supported by Piratförlaget, the publisher of some of Jan Guillos books.

Redesigning Books

Books are almost free, if you have time to find your favorites among used books at fleemarkets and overstock outlets etc. I have a bad habit to cut sides out of boosk. It could be information I find lesser interesting or offensive. It could be a foreworld, an useless dedication. also write down ideas in the marins of the books. So I redesign some books for my needs. I create a new product uBook as used Book. You could place your signature, dedicate the book, date it etc. etc. You customize it for a customer you never will meet. You could place and glue tree books in a pile. Then you get a heavy uBook you cant afford to send in the swedish mail. The wiever has to show up to collect it. The user could use the uBook as an art-object of desire like fashion.

The long tail

The long tail by Mr Chris Anderson, the editor-in-chief at Wired Magazine. Anderson has studied virtual stores like Amazon and Netflix active retailers on the Internet. His keyfinding the concept of the long tail is a focus of the tail in an ordered frequency diagram. The future is not the blocbuster monster hits when you are selling goods on the net, if it is virtual products in the form of bits it’s for sure. When the stock and distribution costs are very low you can focus to sell music, movies, applications and other media products that are not among the top 1000. The nisched products that sell in extremly small amount are on the other side enourmosly many. Apple iTunes could benefit and make profit on 1.000.000+ tunes.
Visit The Long Tail blog

jens lapidus book aldrig fucka upp

JENS LAPIDUS second book called “Aldrig fucka upp” [Never Fucking Up] was released the other day
Mr Lapidus, Swedens best dressed up man, has started his own company where he takes on clients in the crime sector.
Wahlström & Widstrand is the publishers.

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