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.
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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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big book sale

THE YEARLY BOOK SALE starting at Tuesday 26 february. Åhlens and Klackenberg have special catalogues and open as early as 07:00 AM. I must recomend the book "Så funkar fotboll" [Understanding Soccer] by Ola Andersson. Only EUR 4.9 a must have for the soccereneur/fotballeneur.
"For everybody that are interested in understanding more of the thinking behind the play" (panorsted.se)

Nobel Lecture

Nobel Lecture in Litterature at the Swedish Academy, Källargränd 4, 5:30 p.m. This event is a part of the Nobel Week. Press Conference regarding the Nobel Week at the Nobel Foundation, Sturegatan 14, 1:00 p.m.

Bodil Malmsten

The Author the several times book prize awarded Bodil Malmsten is, as far as I know not a relative to the guitar player Yngvie Malmsteen if you want to know. Bodil Malmsten was born in Norrland and moved down to Stockolm. For several years she lived in Vallingby, a place she describes and relates to in several pasages in the book i have studied, called My papers are still in a mess. She writes about: her living in France, life in Stockholm, authors like Thomas Bernhard, Samuel Beckett, social change in privatization, shopping malls, bus traveling in Wales, getting layed in Hagsatra suburb as teen, visiting the library in Vallingby that she claim has saved her life from using heavy drugs at lofts at Angermannagatan, the main street of Vallingby. She also writes on raketost (a special brand of cheese) and the love of oranges. And she claims that books are the great memory of the world. Malmsten is a blogger and runs her own publishing corporation, Finistere. 18 december she will draw her signature in her books at Akademibokhandeln Master Samulesgatan in Stockholm.