Falling into Infinity

Leituras Digitais (20 a 26 de Maio)

noreply@blogger.com (Ricardo Lourenço) — Sun, 27 May 2012 12:26:00 +0000

Rubrica semanal de notícias e artigos relacionados com a edição de livros digitais.

Waterstones deal with Amazon puts Kindle and ebooks instore

Waterstones has announced a surprise tie-up with Amazon that will enable shoppers to pluck ebooks as well as physical books from its shelves.
The companies did not reveal the terms of the deal, but Waterstones said it was planning a digital revolution in its stores, with Kindle e-readers on sale for the first time and free Wi-Fi, so customers can choose between buying a physical book or downloading it there and then. It is also opening instore cafes as part of an upgrade of the 30-year old chain.

Future U: Library 3.0 has more resources, greater challenges

One popular image of the library of the future comes from the cartoon Futurama. The temporally misplaced character from our own time, Fry, enters Mars University’s Wong Library with his friends. It contains the largest collection of literature in the universe. Zoom in on two CDs, one labeled “Fiction” and the other “Non-fiction.”
In many ways, the library of today looks much the same as the library of yesteryear. The card catalogs may be consigned to a basement storage area and the tables where they used to stand are studded with computers. But otherwise there are carrels and stacks, stairs and information desk, patrons and librarians.
Transition is underway: from a place where you go to get information to a place you go to create; and from a place you go to create to a service you use.

Can e-readers help save reading?

OnlineUniversities.com has a post by Justin Marquis Ph.D. looking at the alarming trend of declining reading rates over the last few decades, and bringing up the recent Pew study showing that e-reader owners read more as a possible harbinger of ways to reduce the trend.
People who read more, Marquis points out, become more “interesting, engaged, and intellectual”. They have a higher degree of emotional as well as standard literacy, developing empathy through repeatedly putting themselves in the place of the characters they read about. Adolescents who don’t develop good reading habits are at a disadvantage in college where so much of learning is based on reading. And the more people who read individually, the more that greater society as a whole is more intellectually engaged.

Tablets are generating interest in e-texts, but price continues as a driver

Integrated Learning Systems are edging out both print and e-textbooks in popularity with students, says new research from the Book Industry Study Group (BISG)'s ongoing study of Student Attitudes Toward Content in Higher Education. The second installment in Volume Two of the study, which is powered by Bowker Market Research, shows that nearly 48 percent of students feel Integrated Learning Systems help with their studying; compare that with 45 percent for the core physical textbook and just 37 percent for the e-textbook. Further, nearly half of student respondents feel that Integrated Learning Systems help them improve their grade, compared with 40 percent for print texts and 33 percent for e-texts.

On Books: Are Indie Authors Doing the Best They Can?

One of the first lessons that every indie author needs to learn is that they must always be selling their writing. You can’t just write and hope someone else will pick up the sales ball. I know that seems obvious, but it is the scope of what constitutes selling that I think gets missed. Even such simple things as how the ebook is designed is selling. Choosing the right typeface and font size is selling. Providing metadata for running heads for those devices that will display a running head is selling. Participation in forums of readers and constantly mentioning your writing is selling. A well-done cover design is selling.
For many people, selling themselves is the hardest thing to do in the world. It is why in law firms the “rainmakers” are considered more valuable than any other attorney in the firm; it is the rainmakers who bring in the business by selling themselves and the firm. The indie author has to be his or her own rainmaker.

E-Readers Uncovered: What and Why People Read on Devices

Our survey found that some people use their e-reader just for work – like the sociology professor reading From Max Weber in Union Square. Other segregate their reading based on the experience of reading in print versus on a device.
Christopher Robinson works in publishing and was initially hesitant to join the e-reader revolution. But after his uncle gave him a Barnes & Noble Nook for Christmas, he now does most all his reading electronically – except for art books and poetry. He still prefers to read those two categories in print “because it’s just nicer to have it on a page, away from any distraction, with just the white space of the page.”

Publishing: Rude bits in disguise

According to new research by discount website MyVoucherCodes.co.uk, people have been buying e-readers to disguise the embarrassing books they're reading. The poll of 1,863 e-reader owners found that 58 per cent had acquired the device partly so as to disguise their taste in erotic and/or children's fiction.
E-book sales have skyrocketed thanks, in large part, to genre fiction: horror, crime, sci-fi and so on. Half of all erotic fiction sold is in e-book format, compared with just 20 per cent of general fiction. Romance publisher Mills & Boon releases around 100 digital titles a month, but just 55 physical titles.

Book Places in the Digital Age

So maybe publishers should treat indies like showrooms, and send their books to indies on consignment. That means that only if and when a book sells is money paid to the publisher. The books in the store shouldn’t be the focus of the revenue. Instead, the revenue might come from membership fees, book rentals, and referral fees for drop shipped new copies or ebook sales. Members of this store/library then would have a stake in keeping the store/library open, so presumably they would have little motivation to misuse ebook files. Then I as a publisher might have a reason to trust the store and those members with DRM free files. I would offer DRM free files in a store like that, where there is a relationship between the file and the store and the customer/patron. We are all shareholders in that scenario. I think other publishers might consider offering DRM free files in such a scenario too, but perhaps I’m too pie in the sky. If your local bookstore/library depended on the revenue ebook sales and rentals generated, you would have a stake in that revenue. I would hope that that could be an environment where publishers might be willing experiment with trust. But then again, I’ve been known to believe in lost causes before, and have been absolutely wrong.

New York Times E-Book Best Sellers

A version of this list appears in the June 3, 2012 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending May 19, 2012.

E-Book Fiction

1. FIFTY SHADES OF GREY, by E. L. James

2. FIFTY SHADES DARKER, by E. L. James

3. FIFTY SHADES FREED, by E. L. James

4. STOLEN PREY, by John Sandford

5. FIFTY SHADES TRILOGY, by E. L. James

Complete List »

E-Book Nonfiction

1. THE AMATEUR, by Edward Klein

2. I SUCK AT GIRLS, by Justin Halpern

3. THE ART OF INTELLIGENCE, by Henry A. Crumpton

4. THE VOW, by Kim and Krickitt Carpenter with Dana Wilkerson

5. UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand

Complete List »

Wall Street Journal E-Book Best Sellers (Week Ended May 20)

Nonfiction E-Books

TITLE AUTHOR / PUBLISHER	THIS WEEK	LAST WEEK
Desperate Passage	1	—
Ethan Rarick/Oxford University Press
The Amateur	2	New
Edward Klein/Regnery Publishing
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man	3	9
Steve Harvey/HarperCollins
The Skinny Rules	4	New
Bob Harper with Greg Critser/Random House
The Art of Intelligence	5	New
Henry A. Crumpton/Penguin Group
I Suck at Girls	6	New
Justin Halpern/HarperCollins
Soulless	7	2
Gail Carriger, Bob Condor/Orbit
The Vow	8	8
Kim Carpenter, Krickitt Carpenter with Dana Wilkerson/B&H Publishing Group
Unbroken	9	10
Laura Hillenbrand/Random House
Let's Pretend This Never Happened	10	—
Jenny Lawson/Penguin Group

Fiction E-Books

TITLE AUTHOR / PUBLISHER	THIS WEEK	LAST WEEK
Fifty Shades of Grey	1	1
E.L. James/Vintage
Fifty Shades Darker	2	2
E.L. James/Vintage
Fifty Shades Freed	3	3
E.L. James/Vintage
Mockingjay	4	5
Suzanne Collins/Scholastic
Stolen Prey	5	New
John Sandford/Penguin Group
Catching Fire	6	6
Suzanne Collins/Scholastic
The Hunger Games	7	8
Suzanne Collins/Scholastic
11th Hour	8	4
James Patterson, Maxine Paetro/Little, Brown
On the Island	9	—
Tracey Garvis Graves/Tracey Garvis Graves
The Innocent	10	10
David Baldacci/Grand Central Publishing

Vídeos

An open platform for social reading

9.ª Sessão do Ciclo "Fernando Pessoa: Filosofia, Religião e Ciências do Psiquismo Humano"

noreply@blogger.com (Ricardo Lourenço) — Sat, 26 May 2012 15:59:00 +0000

Ciclo de Conferências – Fernando Pessoa: Filosofia, Religião e Ciências do Psiquismo Humano

Organização: Paulo Borges, Nuno Ribeiro e Cláudia Souza.

Data: 6 de Junho de 2012, pelas 18h30.

Local: Casa Fernando Pessoa.

Entrada: Livre.

A nona sessão do ciclo de conferências Fernando Pessoa: Filosofia, Religião e Ciências do Psiquismo Humano ocorrerá dia 6 de Junho de 2012, na Casa Fernando Pessoa. A sessão tem início às 18h30 e conta com uma palestra de Paulo Borges intitulada D. Sebastião e o Quinto Império em Fernando Pessoa.

Documentário da Universidade Aberta sobre José Saramago

noreply@blogger.com (Ricardo Lourenço) — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:07:00 +0000

Debate "Mulheres e Literatura"

noreply@blogger.com (Ricardo Lourenço) — Wed, 23 May 2012 10:00:00 +0000

Ciclo de Debates da Ler Devagar: “Mulheres e Literatura”

Moderação: Joana Miranda.

Convidados: Sara Évora Ferreira e Isabel Seara.

Data: 31 de Maio de 2012, pelas 17h.

Local: Livraria Ler Devagar.

Entrada: Livre.

Ler Mais Ler Melhor: A Game of Thrones

noreply@blogger.com (Ricardo Lourenço) — Tue, 22 May 2012 09:00:00 +0000

Colecção Júlio Verne com o Correio da Manhã

noreply@blogger.com (Ricardo Lourenço) — Mon, 21 May 2012 13:21:00 +0000

A partir do próximo Sábado, 26 Maio, será possível adquirir livros de Júlio Verne juntamente com o Correio da Manhã (1,95€ pelo primeiro volume, 9,95€ pelos restantes, todos em capa dura). Os dez primeiros títulos encontram-se enumerados na imagem acima (clique para aumentar).

Leituras Digitais (13 a 19 de Maio)

noreply@blogger.com (Ricardo Lourenço) — Sun, 20 May 2012 14:49:00 +0000

Rubrica semanal de notícias e artigos relacionados com a edição de livros digitais.

When e-books were growing

In digital publishing no sooner do we reach one milestone than another slaps us in the face. The figures released this week by Hachette UK are the first to truly demonstrate the step-change in e-book consumption since the beginning of the year.
Digital sales in the first quarter of 2012 were up 250% on the same period in 2011. E-book sales accounted for 20% of sales of relevant titles and over 30% in the case of certain fiction titles, an average of 25% of adult trade sales.

Writers won't lose out if libraries lend ebooks

Many publishers share this coolness towards e-lending, with only Random House and Bloomsbury still signed up to OverDrive, the library ebook platform. Hachette's CEO, Tim Hely Hutchinson, spoke recently of his worries that library lending could lead to "ebook giveaways for all". The theory goes that if people can borrow ebooks for nothing, they will have no reason to buy them. The same argument was used against libraries until it turned out that library users spent more on books than anyone else.
Accepting that libraries should be able to lend books means accepting that they should be able to lend them in any format. To claim otherwise is illogical and exposes a deep unease both with what "owning" an ebook actually entails, and with the whole concept of public libraries.

Next (Front-Lighted) Kindle to Launch in July?

It looks like that front-lighted Kindle rumor I reported on last month is going to come true. Reuters is reporting that Amazon plans to launch the new Kindle in July 2012. There aren’t any hard details yet on specs or price, but the original source is quite specific that the new Kindle is going to be released 2 months from now.

Booksellers v. Libraries? Publishers v. Amazon? These are the wrong battles to fight

Publishers (both old and new) must step up and provide the platforms (and rights management frameworks) for innovation needed by booksellers (all types of booksellers) and authors to push reading forward. If they don’t, publishers will fall by the wayside as true innovation will be limited to a few (one?) large players investing on their own behalf’s (see Amazon, Barnes & Noble + Microsoft) while authors take their storytelling to completely new platforms that are altogether outside of the bookselling and library frameworks.

An Inconvenient Truth About E-books

As we rush headlong into e-books, we’re not considering how our libraries will migrate forward in time, protecting personal and institutional investments. Paper books are readable by anyone who’s literate, but e-books require a reader, and DRM ensures that there will be difficulties in the future. Worse, there are several different file formats and different DRMs used by Apple, Adobe and Amazon.
While there is some cross compatibility, there is no assurance that due to technical changes, self-serving rules invoked by publishers, and the interests of middlemen like Apple that what we buy today will be usable in the future. Worse, as we buy e-books from different retailers, we fragment our collections. Some are in Kindle, some are in iBooks, and so on. Retailers want us locked in, and we want freedom.

Amazon Killed The Book Reviewer Star

The result, implies this new research, is that Amazon has democratized the book reviewing process, with consumer reviewers less beholden to special interests and more representative of the book-reading masses. Perhaps most importantly, it rebuts critics who have claimed that Amazon is nothing more than a cauldron of corrupt and uneducated opinions.
Despite the strict editorial firewall between writers and commercial interests, “reviewers may not always have the incentive to provide objective reviews,” explain Professors Dobrescu, Luca and Motta in a new study of the professional book review industry. Newspapers and magazines are 25% more likely to offer a review of an author who has written for their publication before; unsurprisingly, the reviews are slightly more positive. Moreover, professional reviews suffer from self-congratulatory institutional nepotism: novice authors get slammed more often than established ones, especially if they haven’t won any awards.

EU £64m funding programme 'to back open access'

The Times Higher Education Supplement reports today (17th May) that an EC official has revealed that for researchers receiving funding from its Horizon 2020 program between 2014-20, a requirement to adopt open access publishing for their work “will be the norm.” A pilot scheme underway in seven areas of its current funding programme is to be extended across all peer-reviewed research in the new scheme.
The EC is set to publish an official policy before the summer after consulting with publishers and presenting ideas at an event in Brussels on June 20th this year, according to the THES.

CreateSpace POD Service Expands into Europe

Amazon‘s own print-on-demand service CreateSpace has just announced a new distribution venue. This sub has been printing and distributing books in the US ever since Amazon bought it in 2005, and as of today it can now supply ebooks to all of Amazon’s European websites, including Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.es, and Amazon.it.
Authors and small publishers now have more options for where they can sell their books. With minimal effort they’ll be able to use their existing CreateSpace account to expand their readership to include dozens of new fans.

In the Digital Era, Publication Isn’t Preservation

Digital archivists have a lot to say on this matter, as they have been dealing with the instability of digital files (not to mention evolving file formats, software, storage and hardware issues) for years. And they are probably the first to point out something that may seem counter-intuitive: Digitization and cloud storage do not necessarily ensure longevity. Steeped as we may be in the fear that digital files will exist forever — those Friendster/Myspace/Facebook/Twitter images of ourselves as teenagers haunting us all our lives — anyone whose computer has crashed, taking photos and word documents with it, knows this probably won’t be the case.
In response to the perceived (read: false) assumption that in the digital age we are over-archiving our lives, “anti-archival” seems to be garnering support. In fact, we aren’t keeping copies of e-books themselves or tracking their technical evolution and divergence in an acknowledged systematic way.

New York Times E-Book Best Sellers

A version of this list appears in the May 27, 2012 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending May 12, 2012.

E-Book Fiction

1. FIFTY SHADES OF GREY, by E. L. James

2. FIFTY SHADES DARKER, by E. L. James

3. FIFTY SHADES FREED, by E. L. James

4. 11TH HOUR, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

5. FIFTY SHADES TRILOGY, by E. L. James

Complete List »

E-Book Nonfiction

1. MOST TALKATIVE, by Andy Cohen

2. THE VOW, by Kim and Krickitt Carpenter with Dana Wilkerson

3. THE PASSAGE OF POWER, by Robert A. Caro

4. UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand

5. LET’S PRETEND THIS NEVER HAPPENED, by Jenny Lawson

Complete List »

Wall Street Journal E-Book Best Sellers (Week Ended May 13)

Nonfiction E-Books

TITLE AUTHOR / PUBLISHER	THIS WEEK	LAST WEEK
Psychopath (Crimescape)	1	--
Dr. Katherine Ramsland/Dr. Katherine Ramsland
Soulless (The Parasol Protectorate)	2	--
Gail Carriger and Bob Condor /Orbit
No Buddy Left Behind	3	--
Terri Crisp and C. J. Hurn/Lyons Press
Most Talkative	4	New
Andy Cohen/Henry Holt
To Heaven and Back	5	--
Mary Neal/Circle 6 Publishing
7 Money Rules for Life	6	--
Mary Hunt/Revell
The Passage of Power	7	2
Robert A. Caro/Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
The Vow: The True Events That Inspired the Movie	8	--
Kim and Krickitt Carpenter, with Dana Wilkerson/B&H Publishing
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man	9	5
Steve Harvey/HarperCollins
Unbroken	10	8
Laura Hillenbrand/Random House

Fiction E-Books

TITLE AUTHOR / PUBLISHER	THIS WEEK	LAST WEEK
Fifty Shades of Grey	1	1
E.L. James/The Writer's Coffee Shop Publishing House
Fifty Shades Darker	2	2
E.L. James/Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Fifty Shades Freed	3	3
E.L. James/Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
11th Hour	4	New
James Patterson, Maxine Paetro /Little, Brown
Mockingjay	5	6
Suzanne Collins/Scholastic
Catching Fire	6	7
Suzanne Collins/Scholastic
City of Lost Souls	7	New
Cassandra Clare/Margaret K. McElderry Books
The Hunger Games	8	10
Suzanne Collins/Scholastic
The Book Case	9	New
Nelson DeMille/Thomas & Mercer
The Innocent	10	--
David Baldacci/Grand Central Publishing

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Vencedores dos Nebula Awards 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Ricardo Lourenço) — Sun, 20 May 2012 11:54:00 +0000

Foram ontem anunciados os vencedores dos Nebula Awards 2011, destacados na seguinte lista que inclui os restantes nomeados para cada categoria:

Novel

Among Others, Jo Walton (Tor)
Embassytown, China Miéville (Macmillan UK; Del Rey; Subterranean Press)
Firebird, Jack McDevitt (Ace Books)
God’s War, Kameron Hurley (Night Shade Books)
Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, Genevieve Valentine (Prime Books)
The Kingdom of Gods, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

Novella

“Kiss Me Twice,” Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 2011)
“Silently and Very Fast,” Catherynne M. Valente (WFSA Press; Clarkesworld Magazine, October 2011)
“The Ice Owl,” Carolyn Ives Gilman (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November/December 2011)
“The Man Who Bridged the Mist,” Kij Johnson (Asimov’s Science Fiction, October/November 2011)
“The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary,” Ken Liu (Panverse Three, Panverse Publishing)
“With Unclean Hands,” Adam-Troy Castro (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November 2011)

Novelette

“Fields of Gold,” Rachel Swirsky (Eclipse 4, Night Shade Books)
“Ray of Light,” Brad R. Torgersen (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, December 2011)
“Sauerkraut Station,” Ferrett Steinmetz (Giganotosaurus, November 2011)
“Six Months, Three Days,” Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com, June 2011)
“The Migratory Pattern of Dancers,” Katherine Sparrow (Giganotosaurus, July 2011)
“The Old Equations,” Jake Kerr (Lightspeed Magazine, July 2011)
“What We Found,” Geoff Ryman (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September/October 2011)

Short Story

“Her Husband’s Hands,” Adam-Troy Castro (Lightspeed Magazine, October 2011)
“Mama, We are Zhenya, Your Son,” Tom Crosshill (Lightspeed Magazine, April 2011)
“Movement,” Nancy Fulda (Asimov’s Science Fiction, March 2011)
“Shipbirth,” Aliette de Bodard (Asimov’s Science Fiction, February 2011)
“The Axiom of Choice,” David W. Goldman (New Haven Review, Winter 2011)
“The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees,” E. Lily Yu (Clarkesworld Magazine, April 2011)
“The Paper Menagerie,” Ken Liu (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March/April 2011)

5ª Feira do Livro Anarquista

noreply@blogger.com (Ricardo Lourenço) — Sat, 19 May 2012 14:18:00 +0000

5ª Feira do Livro Anarquista

Data: 25 a 27 de Maio de 2012.

Local: Faculdade de Belas-Artes de Lisboa.

Entrada: Livre.

Programa

O objectivo é aprofundar e divulgar as ideias anarquistas, enquanto ataque real a esta sociedade exploradora, autoritária e antropocêntrica, incentivando as publicações independentes, criando espaços de discussão e de troca de ideias que possibilitem projectos alternativos e modos autónomos de vida.

Partindo de um inconformismo face a todas as formas de dominação, continuamos a promover o pensamento libertário e a rejeitar qualquer mediação política.

Acreditamos numa vivência que respeita a singularidade e as diferenças entre cada indivíduo e grupo, numa relação pacífica com a biosfera. Acreditamos que é possível pensar a realidade de uma outra forma e actuar sobre ela.

Tertúlia com José Saramago

noreply@blogger.com (Ricardo Lourenço) — Thu, 17 May 2012 10:07:00 +0000

Podem visualizar mais vídeos relacionados com o autor no canal oficial da Fundação José Saramago no YouTube.

Poe e a Criatividade Gótica

noreply@blogger.com (Ricardo Lourenço) — Wed, 16 May 2012 09:50:00 +0000

Quando se aproxima a realização do colóquio Dracula and the Gothic in Literature, Pop Culture and the Arts (cujo programa pode ser consultado aqui), aproveito para recordar outro colóquio dedicado à literatura gótica que se realizou no nosso país: Poe e a Criatividade Gótica. Algumas das comunicações feitas neste último (lista completa abaixo) foram publicadas na revista Anglo Saxónica do Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa, que pode ser descarregada gratuitamente aqui.

INTRODUÇÃO: A ARTE PERVERSA DE EDGAR ALLAN POE
Maria Antónia Lima e Margarida Vale de Gato

”THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH” – CASTLE OF ALTERITY
Iolanda Brito

POE AND LOVECRAFT: INTERIOR AND COSMIC TERROR
José Carlos Gil

”THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER”: O DISPOSITIVO CINE-POIÉTICO POE / EPSTEIN
Fernando Guerreiro

THE HOUSE OF USHER AND THE HOUSE OF FISHER: TOWARDS AN ARCHITECTURE OF (DIS)COMFORT
José Duarte

EDGAR ALLAN POE: UM PRECURSOR DA LITERATURA DE VAMPIROS NORTE-AMERICANA
Paula Lagarto

O ESCRITOR E O SEU DUPLO EM EDGAR ALLAN POE E BRET EASTON ELLIS
João Luís Nabo

EDGAR ALLAN POE’S EXTRAORDINARY TRANSLATIONS: A SURVEY OF NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY FRENCH AND RUSSIAN VERSIONS
Nadia D’Amelio

A PARATEXTUALIDADE NA REESCRITA PORTUGUESA DOS CONTOS DE EDGAR ALLAN POE
Vivina Figueiredo

PESSOA, POE E A APRENDIZAGEM DA CONTINGÊNCIA. LEITURAS A PROPÓSITO DE “THE DOOR” E DE ALGUMA POESIA DE ALEXANDER SEARCH
Francisco Fino

“FABULOUS AND FRIVOLOUS TALES”: POE’S “THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM” AND ANTICATHOLIC FICTION IN ANTEBELLUM CULTURE
Fernando Gonzalez

RATIONALES OF VERSE: POE AND OTHER CRITICS
Fernando Barragão

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MR. POE!
Maria Antónia Lima

Estranhar Pessoa com as Materialidades da Literatura

noreply@blogger.com (Ricardo Lourenço) — Tue, 15 May 2012 13:16:00 +0000

Colóquio «Estranhar Pessoa com as Materialidades da Literatura»

Data: 25 de Maio de 2012.

Local: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra.

Entrada: Livre.

Terá lugar no próximo dia 25 de Maio, na sala do Centro de Literatura Portuguesa (7º piso) da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, e chamar-se-á ‘Estranhar Pessoa com as Materialidades da Literatura’. Realizado em colaboração com o ELAB (Laboratório de Estudos Literários Avançados), da FCSH da UNL, o colóquio prolonga uma das linhas de trabalho do ELAB, abordando-a contudo na óptica das materialidades da literatura. Dá-se assim expressão a uma colaboração entre o programa de doutoramento em Materialidades da Literatura e o ELAB, patente, desde o início do funcionamento do curso, na presença de Abel Barros Baptista, fundador e director do ELAB, entre o corpo docente, como professor convidado, ou na presença de Osvaldo Manuel Silvestre entre os colaboradores do ELAB, nomeadamente no projecto ‘O ensino da literatura nas universidades portuguesas: história e nova proposta’. E ainda na colaboração que quer Osvaldo Manuel Silvestre (na 1ª edição), quer Manuel Portela (na 3ª edição, em curso), vêm dando às ‘Aulas da Primavera’. Por fim, o colóquio servirá ainda para dar notícia pública do início dos trabalhos no projecto «Nenhum Problema Tem Solução: Um Arquivo Digital do Livro do Desassossego», apresentado pelo programa em Materialidades da Literatura à FCT e aprovado com «excelente».

O acesso ao colóquio é livre, sendo facultados certificados de presença a quem os solicitar.

Via Tantas Páginas.

Europeana Newspapers

noreply@blogger.com (Ricardo Lourenço) — Mon, 14 May 2012 09:50:00 +0000

Anunciado em Fevereiro do presente ano, o Europeana Newspapers já dispõe de website próprio. O projecto tem como objectivo digitalizar jornais, com especial ênfase para aqueles que foram publicados durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, disponibilizando-os posteriormente de forma gratuita e sem qualquer tipo de restrições legais através do Europeana.

A group of 17 European partner institutions have joined forces in the “Europeana Newspapers” project and will, over the next 3 years, provide more than 10 million newspaper pages to the EUROPEANA service.

The Europeana Newspapers project (funded under EC’s CIP 2007 – 2013) aims at the aggregation and refinement of newspapers for The European Library and Europeana. In addition, the project addresses challenges particularly linked with digitized newspapers:

use of refinement methods for OCR, OLR/article segmentation, and named entity recognition (NER), and page class recognition to enhance search and presentation functionalities for Europeana customers,

quality evaluation for automatic refinement technologies,

transformation of local metadata to the Europeana Data Model (EDM)

metadata standardization in close collaboration with stakeholders from the public and private sector.

Leituras Digitais (6 a 12 de Maio)

noreply@blogger.com (Ricardo Lourenço) — Sun, 13 May 2012 10:00:00 +0000

Rubrica semanal de notícias e artigos relacionados com a edição de livros digitais.

Digital Reading: Getting Agile About Books

Agile methodology comes from the world of software development. It was intended to cure some major problems in that field: projects taking too long to complete; projects so complex and expensive that mistakes, only discovered at the far end, amounted to disaster: projects that, upon completion, were found to miss the mark in major and minor ways because communication among stakeholders had fallen down: projects that simply failed to fulfill the user’s requirements.
What agile development provided was a way to work in short “sprints,” resulting in “iterations”—versions of all or part of the product—for testing and feedback from “stakeholders,” a group that included the end user or the funder. One manager oversees the process, not the product. A series of sprints might or might not lead to a product that was ready for distribution and/or sale.

Speculations on the Future of the Book at MIT Conference

At the Unbound: Speculations on the Future of the Book conference held on May 3-4 at MIT there was no handwringing by publishers or booksellers, in this case mostly rare booksellers, over print book sales or discussion of the DoJ lawsuit. Instead the symposium, organized by two postdoctoral fellows in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT, Amaranth Borsuk and Gretchen E. Henderson, lingered most on what forms the book might take.

The ebook marketplace is a long way from settled

It is important to remember that DRM isn’t Amazon’s only advantage or even their principal advantage. I’m not an Amazon fanboy (have you noticed?) and I read on an iPhone, but I buy most of my ebooks from the Kindle store because they offer the best shopping experience I’ve found.
However that (the shopping experience) isn’t a permanent advantage. The Kindle format and DRM are, as long as publishers feel DRM is essential.

Indie Authors Need to Become Great Publishers

A decade ago, it would have been unthinkable for an author to self-publish their own work and distribute it to half a dozen of the leading bookstores.
Today, tens of thousands of people are doing it. How things have changed.
One of the people responsible for this revolution in publishing is Mark Coker, the founder and CEO of Smashwords, a Los Gatos, Calif.-based e-bookseller and distributor for agents, publishers and indie authors (those who self-publish). As of this week, Smashwords is distributing 121,000 e-books by 42,000 authors, agents and small publishers to the Nook, Kobo, Apple, Sony, Diesel and Smashwords e-bookstores as well as through Baker & Taylor, which operates the Blio e-reading app. That’s about as many books as a typical Barnes & Noble location can hold at one time.

Research Preprint: Are e-Readers Suitable Tools For Scholarly Work?

This paper aims to offer insights into the usability, acceptance and limitations of e-readers with regard to the specific requirements of scholarly text work. To fit into the academic workflow non-linear reading, bookmarking, commenting, extracting text or the integration of non-textual elements must be supported. A group of social science students were questioned about their experiences with electronic publications for study purposes. This same group executed several text-related tasks with the digitized material presented to them in two different file formats on four different e-readers. Their performances were subsequently evaluated by means of frequency analyses in detail.

Marvel opens new digital comics store, continues to take advantage of digital medium

Marvel Comics has opened a new on-line comics store on Marvel.com, powered by comiXology. It offers “hundreds of collections” and other titles, and allows access to those titles from anywhere, including via the Marvel Comics iOS and Android devices. It is also cross-compatible with the Marvel Comics on Chrome store, meaning that purchases made through Chrome will show up on Marvel.com.

Exercises in democracy: building a digital public library

Most neighborhoods in America have a public library. Now the biggest neighborhood in America, the Internet, wants a library of its own. Last week, Ars attended a conference held by the Digital Public Library of America, a nascent group of intellectuals hoping to put all of America's library holdings online. The DPLA is still in its infancy—there's no official staff, nor is there a finished website where you can access all the books they imagine will be accessible. But if the small handful of volunteers and directors have their way, you'll see all that by April 2013 at the latest.

Pottermore: 3m pupils enrol at Hogwarts

Hogwarts, the wizarding school at the centre of the Harry Potter books, can now count 3 million virtual pupils among its numbers after fans rushed to sign up to creator JK Rowling's latest venture Pottermore.
After its initial launch date of last October slipped and slipped, Pottermore eventually went live to all on the morning of 14 April. Over the next two weeks, the site's chief executive Charlie Redmayne said it received 22m visits from 7m unique users, and over a billion page impressions, with the average user staying on the site for 25 minutes, and visiting 47 pages.

Textbook Alternative

Open-source textbooks, long considered a promising way to cut costs but still not widely used, could become more readily available and easily vetted as a University of Minnesota project expands.
Minnesota launched an online catalog of open-source books last month and will pay its professors $500 each time they post an evaluation of one of those books. (Faculty members elsewhere are welcome to post their own reviews, but they won’t be compensated.) Minnesota professors who have already adopted open-source texts will also receive $500, with all of the money coming from donor funds.

Books Have a Bright Future, Just Not Like You Expect

To be fair, there are similarities between the past, present and future of the book. Books have always been one of the purest points of intersection between form and function. The proper form of the time (parchment to paper to pixels) has had limited to no impact on the proper function (reading) throughout its history.
We’ve seen, time and again, that form follows function.
However, right now, a debate is raging about form — and the debate is seriously misguided.

All Seven Harry Potter Books Coming to Kindle Owners’ Lending Library

The Kindle Owners’ Lending Library now features over 145,000 books to borrow for free, including over 100 current and former New York Times Best Sellers. With traditional library lending, the library buys a certain number of eBook copies of a particular title. If all of those are checked out, readers have to get on a waiting list. For popular titles like Harry Potter, the wait can sometimes be months. With the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, there are no due dates, books can be borrowed as frequently as once a month, and there are no limits on how many people can simultaneously borrow the same title—so readers never have to wait in line for the book they want.

New York Times E-Book Best Sellers

A version of this list appears in the May 20, 2012 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending May 5, 2012.

E-Book Fiction

1. FIFTY SHADES OF GREY, by E. L. James

2. FIFTY SHADES DARKER, by E. L. James

3. FIFTY SHADES FREED, by E. L. James

4. THE LAST BOYFRIEND, by Nora Roberts

5. DEADLOCKED, by Charlaine Harris

Complete List »

E-Book Nonfiction

1. THE PASSAGE OF POWER, by Robert A. Caro

2. HARD MEASURES, by Jose A. Rodriguez Jr. and Bill Harlow

3. MANHUNT, by Peter L. Bergen

4. THE POWER OF HABIT, by Charles Duhigg

5. _____ MY DAD SAYS, by Justin Halpern

Complete List »

Wall Street Journal E-Book Best Sellers (Week Ended May 6)

Nonfiction E-Books

TITLE AUTHOR / PUBLISHER	THIS WEEK	LAST WEEK
After Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil	1	—
Marilyn Bardsley/RosettaBooks
The Passage of Power	2	New
Robert A. Caro/Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Hard Measures	3	New
Jose A. Rodriguez Jr. with Bill Harlow/Threshold Editions
Manhunt	4	New
Peter L. Bergen/Crown Publishing Group
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man	5	1
Steve Harvey/HarperCollins
The Power of Habit	6	7
Charles Duhigg/Random House
S— My Dad Says	7	—
Justin Halpern/HarperCollins
Unbroken	8	10
Laura Hillenbrand/Random House
Let's Pretend This Never Happened	9	3
Jenny Lawson/Penguin Group
Camera Boy	10	—
Fred Minnick/L&R Publishing

Fiction E-Books

TITLE AUTHOR / PUBLISHER	THIS WEEK	LAST WEEK
Fifty Shades of Grey	1	1
E.L. James/The Writer's Coffee Shop Publishing House
Fifty Shades Darker	2	2
E.L. James/Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Fifty Shades Freed	3	3
E.L. James/Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
The Last Boyfriend	4	New
Nora Roberts/Penguin Group
Deadlocked	5	New
Charlaine Harris/Penguin Group
Mockingjay	6	4
Suzanne Collins/Scholastic
Catching Fire	7	5
Suzanne Collins/Scholastic
The Kane Chronicles, Book 3: The Serpent's Shadow	8	New
Rick Riordan/Disney Book Group
Insurgent	9	New
Veronica Roth/HarperCollins
The Hunger Games	10	6
Suzanne Collins/Scholastic

Ler Mais Ler Melhor: Os Malaquias, de Andréa del Fuego

noreply@blogger.com (Ricardo Lourenço) — Wed, 09 May 2012 19:58:00 +0000

Revista Bang! n.º 12 disponível online

noreply@blogger.com (Ricardo Lourenço) — Tue, 08 May 2012 14:53:00 +0000

A Saída de Emergência acaba de disponibilizar a versao digital da mais recente edição da revista Bang!.

Falling into Infinity no Scoop.it

noreply@blogger.com (Ricardo Lourenço) — Tue, 08 May 2012 12:22:00 +0000

O Falling into Infinity possui agora uma lista no Scoop.it, através da qual partilharei o conteúdo do blog assim como notícias e artigos relacionadas com o mundo dos livros. Aproveitei também para criar uma lista em separado, exclusivamente dedicada à literatura gótica.

Caso ainda não conheçam esta plataforma, podem visualizar os vídeos abaixo, que ilustram as suas principais funcionalidades:

Leituras Digitais (29 de Abril a 5 de Maio)

noreply@blogger.com (Ricardo Lourenço) — Sun, 06 May 2012 10:00:00 +0000

Rubrica semanal de notícias e artigos relacionados com a edição de livros digitais.

The other Amazon-publisher disagreement: print on demand

Everyone is paying attention to the e-book pricing fight against Amazon right now, but Bloomberg Businessweek reports there’s another disagreement going on between Amazon and the publishers behind the scenes that nobody has really noticed: the question of print on demand.

Barnes & Noble in Digital Partnership with Microsoft

Barnes & Noble, which analysts believe needs deeper financial pockets and a global presence to compete in the digital reading space with Amazon and Apple, solved both of those issues Monday morning, creating a new subsidiary in partnership with Microsoft. The new unit, temporarily named Newco, will house B&N’s digital assets, as well as its college stores, and will be backed by a $300 million investment from Microsoft that will give the tech company a 17.8% stake in Newco.
At least initially Newco will be focused on supporting reading applications for Windows 8 including the development of Nook app for the Windows 8 platform, although both B&N CEO William Lynch and Microsoft president Andy Lees emphasized they see a broad range of possibilities of development new products that will broaden the way content in created, consumed and published. Both men also repeatedly emphasized the global aspect of link with Microsoft with Lynch noting in a conference call that all of the global customers drawn in by Microsoft will be new since, to date B&N’s digital business has had no global presence.

Huge rise in ebook sales offsets decline in printed titles

Consumer ebook sales in the UK increased by 366% last year helping to offset a decline in the market for printed books, according to new official figures.
Drawing its data from information provided by 250 publishers, the Publishers Association's Statistics Yearbook put the value of consumer ebook sales – fiction, non-fiction and children's digital titles – at £92m in 2011. This is a 366% increase on the previous year, the Publishers Association said, and consumer ebooks are now equivalent to 6% of consumer physical book sales by value.

Thoughts on digital literacy and digitization

As we continue to digitize...as we continue to adopt ebooks...as we continue to succumb to the allure of technology...let's also look for solutions that will eliminate the digital divide that still exists. That might mean offering more training, installing more public access computing labs, loaning mobile devices, or remembering that paper is need a useful mode of communication. Let's not be techno-snobs who ignore the reality in front of us.

Paulo Coelho Sells 99-cent eBooks

Bestselling novelist Paulo Coelho has convinced HarperCollins to sell many of his eBooks for 99-cents in the United States and Canada. The sale prices are now in effect at Amazon, iTunes and Barnes & Noble.
The author could not predict how long the sale would last, but hopes to set the industry standard. In a blog post, Coelho explained that he hoped to make his digital books cost as much as a song in iTunes. The author helpfully did the book-buying math for his readers, revealing that purchasing all his discounted books will cost $10.89 versus $74.19 at regular prices.

It doesn’t matter what e-books cost to make

But as the author also notes, consumers don’t really care what a publisher’s costs are, nor are they likely to pay more simply because a publisher argues that their content is really valuable. In the same way, movie-goers don’t really care how many millions of dollars a movie studio spent on their latest blockbuster — that has no bearing on whether they want to see it or not. It is the perceived value of the e-book that matters, not the cost — and there are some good reasons why e-book consumers might want to pay less.

Can Barnes & Noble Balance Physical and Online Sales Without Killing Itself?

Getting the right combination of the physical and online sales channel is key to survival. For example, Borders sold e-readers from Sony and Rakuten, maker of the Kobo, and had Amazon run its online store. With no connection to the online customer, Borders didn't have enough to survive. The bookseller went out of business last year.
Barnes & Noble has not made the same mistakes as its one-time rival, and its current strategy actually plays into the habits of book readers. Codex has found that people who own e-readers also buy physical books. "They're not just pure-play e-readers; they are living in the print world, as well," Hildick-Smith said.

E-books pose problems for presenting print reference material

So what’s my point? It seems to me that publishers ought to be doing a much better job with the publication of ebooks, and how they represent and provide access to reference material. Keep in mind that, until I started writing this article, I never realized Mistborn had maps of any sort, because rather then starting me at the cover, ebooks start me at the first page of actual text—a nice feature, but it’s only really highlighting the problem with the serial presentation of information, a style of presentation that, it seems, does not need to exist in ebooks.
In some ways, I think we’re looking at ebooks all wrong. We keep looking at them as if they’re books but they’re not. Publishers ought to stop thinking as if ebooks are books, and start thinking of them as stories, and considering how the author intended the reference material to be of use to the text. I don’t really buy into the whole notion of ‘interactive’ ebooks or whatever you want to call them, because most of the ideas, of putting some sort of strange multimedia spin on the book format, really isn’t necessary. But It seems to me it’s also not necessary to stay within the confines of a book’s format either.

Pottermore e-book store sells '£3m in first month'

The Pottermore e-book store sold £3m-worth of Harry Potter e-books in its first month, the company's chief executive has revealed, while the Pottermore experience, which allows fans to explore the Harry Potter universe online, added five million new users in the two weeks since its own launch on 14th April.
Charlie Redmayne said sales at the online shop, which went live on 27th March, had been driven first by pent-up demand, with the sales value high because of the number of Harry Potter fans buying the e-book bundle, priced at £38.64, a discount of 14% on the cost of buying the seven titles individually.

Why the death of DRM would be good news for readers, writers and publishers

In mature gadget markets – like DVD players and MP3 players – formats stop mattering altogether. Especially at the low end of the market, these devices support every format their makers can discover. The cheap-and-cheerful manufacturers at the low end don't have a secondary market they're trying to protect, no app store or crucial vendor relationship with a big distributor or publisher. They just want a product that ticks the box for every possible customer. Since multiformat support is just a matter of getting the software right, what tends to happen is that a standard, commodity firmware emerges for these devices that just works for just about everything, and the formats vanish into the background.
Now that Tor has dropped DRM – and acquired a valuable halo of virtue among committed ebook readers, who'll celebrate their bravery – it's inevitable that the competition will follow. It seems we have reached the beginning of the end of the ebook format wars, which is good news for readers, writers and publishers.

New York Times E-Book Best Sellers

A version of this list appears in the May 13, 2012 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending April 28, 2012.

E-Book Fiction

1. FIFTY SHADES OF GREY, by E. L. James

2. FIFTY SHADES DARKER, by E. L. James

3. FIFTY SHADES FREED, by E. L. James

4. THE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE, by Stephen King

5. SUNRISE POINT, by Robyn Carr

Complete List »

E-Book Nonfiction

1. LIFEBOAT NO. 8, by Elizabeth Kaye

2. LET’S PRETEND THIS NEVER HAPPENED, by Jenny Lawson

3. LOTS OF CANDLES, PLENTY OF CAKE, by Anna Quindlen

4. MRS. KENNEDY AND ME, by Clint Hill with Lisa McCubbin

5. THE POWER OF HABIT, by Charles Duhigg

Complete List »

Wall Street Journal E-Book Best Sellers (Week Ended April 29)

Nonfiction E-Books

TITLE AUTHOR / PUBLISHER	THIS WEEK	LAST WEEK
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man	1	8
Steve Harvey/HarperCollins
Lifeboat No. 8	2	1
Elizabeth Kaye/Elizabeth Kaye
Let's Pretend This Never Happened	3	2
Jenny Lawson/Penguin Group
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake	4	New
Anna Quindlen/Random House
Heroes and Monsters	5	—
Josh James Riebock/Baker Publishing Group
Mrs. Kennedy and Me	6	7
Clint Hill with Lisa McCubbin/Gallery Books
The Power of Habit	7	9
Charles Duhigg/Random House
Heaven Is For Real	8	—
Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent/Thomas Nelson Publishers
Steve Jobs	9	10
Walter Isaacson/Simon & Schuster
Unbroken	10	—
Laura Hillenbrand/Random House

Fiction E-Books

TITLE AUTHOR / PUBLISHER	THIS WEEK	LAST WEEK
Fifty Shades of Grey	1	1
E.L. James/The Writer's Coffee Shop Publishing House
Fifty Shades Darker	2	2
E.L. James/Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Fifty Shades Freed	3	3
E.L. James/Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Mockingjay	4	4
Suzanne Collins/Scholastic
Catching Fire	5	5
Suzanne Collins/Scholastic
The Hunger Games	6	8
Suzanne Collins/Scholastic
Sunrise Point	7	New
Robyn Carr/Mira
The Wind Through the Keyhole	8	New
Stephen King/Scribner
The Lucky One	9	9
Nicholas Sparks/Grand Central Publishing
The Innocent	10	7
David Baldacci/Grand Central Publishing

Infográficos

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Vídeos

NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLight

Wexler.Flex One Crushtest. First flexible e-ink reader

CCB - Dia Rubem Fonseca

noreply@blogger.com (Ricardo Lourenço) — Fri, 04 May 2012 10:00:00 +0000

Dia Rubem Fonseca

Data: 6 de Maio de 2012.

Local: Centro Cultural de Belém.

Entrada: Livre.

Com a obra Bufo & Spallanzani, foi o vencedor do Prémio Casino da Póvoa, atribuído no âmbito do Correntes d’ Escritas (Fev 2012) e distinguido com o Prémio Camões em 2003, Rubem Fonseca é por muitos considerado o maior escritor brasileiro vivo. As suas histórias, de ambiente policial e marcadas por forte violência urbana, são lavradas numa língua literária de alta exigência estilística. De formação jurídica, Rubem move-se com à vontade no universo judiciário, que envolve polícias, juízes e advogados. Desde o seu primeiro romance, O caso Morel, publicado em 1973, que vem construindo uma obra marcada por um humor negro feroz, que convive com o seu universo próprio de (múltiplas) referências literárias, patente em obras como A Grande Arte (1983), Bufo & Spallanzani (1986) e O Seminarista (2009).

Programa

15:00 Leituras da obra do Autor:

João Rodrigues confirmado

Inês Pedrosa confirmado

Carlos Mendes de Sousa

Orlando Silvestre

José Carlos Vasconcelos

Miguel Real

17:15 Intervalo

17:30 Projecção do Filme Bufo e Spallanzani de Flávio Tambellini

O filme será projectado em formato DVD em ecrã 6 x 4m.

Título no Brasil: Bufo & Spallanzani

Título Original: Bufo & Spallanzani

País de Origem: Brasil

Género: Drama

Duração: 96 minutos

Ano de Lançamento: 2001

Estúdio/Distrib.: Conspiração Filmes

Direcção: Flávio R. Tambellini

Congresso Internacional Vergílio Ferreira

noreply@blogger.com (Ricardo Lourenço) — Thu, 03 May 2012 12:00:00 +0000

Congresso Internacional “Da Ficção à Filosofia, no Cinquentenário de Estrela Polar e Da Fenomenologia a Sartre”

Organização: Centro de Estudos de Filosofia da Faculdade de Ciências Humanas da Universidade Católica Portuguesa.

Data: 17, 18, e 19 de Maio de 2012.

Local: Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Edifício Antigo, Auditório 2.

Entrada: Por inscrição.

Programa

Dia 17 de maio – UCP (Lisboa) - Anfiteatro 2

14:00 – Receção dos participantes

14:30 – Sessão de Abertura / Autoridades

Conferência de Abertura:

Manuel Ferreira Patrício – «Vergílio Ferreira: em busca do sentido que faz ou não faz o existente e a vida humana»

15:15 – 1º Painel — Vergílio Ferreira e o Romance

Moderador: Américo Pereira

Lídia Jorge – «Vergílio Ferreira: uma invocação ao seu corpo - o ficcionismo habitado

pelo filósofo»

Jorge Maximino - «Linguagem, experiência e tempo na obra narrativa de

Vergílio Ferreira»

Vanda de La Salete - «Fusão Vergílio-Escrita»

Celeste Natário - «A luz e a solidão de Estrela Polar»

16:45 – Coffee break

17:00 – Conferências

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Fernanda Irene Fonseca - «Tempo e narração em Vergílio Ferreira: questionação filosófica e realização ficcional»

Rosa Maria Goulart - «Vergílio Ferreira: o romance do fim»

18.00 – 2º Painel — Vergílio Ferreira: o corpo e os corpos

Moderador: Jorge Maximino

Vitor Ló – «Vergílio Ferreira e a motricidade humana»

Isabel Cristina Rodrigues – «A câmara clara: Vergílio Ferreira e a arte da imagem»

18:45 – Fim dos trabalhos do 1º dia

Dia 18 de maio – UCP (Lisboa) - Anfiteatro 2

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09:30 – Conferência

Hélder Godinho - «A diferença de uma letra no nome das gémeas de Estrela Polar»

10:30 – Coffee break

10:45 – 3º Painel — Estrela Polar: romance da solidão?

Moderador: Samuel Dimas

Maria de Lurdes Sigardo Ganho – «O universo existencial da obra Estrela Polar»

Florinda Martins - «Estrela Polar : sementes de o fenómeno erótico»

Eunice Cabral – «O Amor como entidade impossível em Estrela Polar de Vergílio Ferreira»

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12:45 – Almoço

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14:30 – 4º Painel — A dimensão trágica do protagonista vergiliano

Moderadora: Maria de Lourdes Sirgado Ganho

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Nuno Júdice - «O esquema mítico em «Aparição» de Vergílio Ferreira»

Bruno Béu de Carvalho – «A imanifestável decepção do conceito: silêncio e apofatismo

interrogativo em Vergílio Ferreira»

Américo Pereira – «Solidão e tragédia. A irrelação inter-humana como lugar próprio da tragédia»

Mariana Cascais – «Da Aparição à Revelação»

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16.00 - Coffe break

16:15 – 5º Painel — Da fenomenologia a Sartre

Moderadora: Vanda de La Salete

Pedro Cabrera – « Patologia da liberdade: Anders (Stern), Sartre, Vergílio Ferreira»

Cassiano Reimão – «Liberdade e ética em Jean-Paul Sartre»

Manuel Cândido Pimentel – «O enigma da transcendência do eu em Vergílio Ferreira»

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18.00 – Fim dos trabalhos do 2º dia

Dia 19 de maio – UCP (Lisboa) - Anfiteatro 2

09:30 – 6º Painel — Vergílio Ferreira hoje: que lugar para a esperança?

Moderador: José Antunes de Sousa

Paula Pina – «”Aí é que sim”: tema e variações»

Samuel Dimas – «A questão de Deus em Vergílio Ferreira»

Isabel Soler – «Assédios à identidade esquiva: ler hoje Vergílio Ferreira»

Gonçalo M. Tavares -

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11:00 – Coffee break

11:15 – Conferência

António Braz Teixeira – «A reflexão estética de Vergílio Ferreira»

12:15 – Sessão de Encerramento:

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Resumo do Congresso: José Antunes de Sousa

Alocução final: Manuel Cândido Pimentel

13:00 – Fim dos trabalhos do Congresso

Arthur C. Clarke Award 2012 para Jane Rogers

noreply@blogger.com (Ricardo Lourenço) — Thu, 03 May 2012 07:55:00 +0000

Jane Rogers vence a edição de 2012 do prémio Arthur C. Clarke com The Testament of Jessie Lamb. A lista dos finalistas pode ser consultada abaixo:

Best science fiction novel of the year

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Embassytown by China Miéville

Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear

The End Specialist by Drew Magary

The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers

Rule 34 by Charles Stross

The Waters Rising by Sheri S. Tepper

International Speculative Fiction

noreply@blogger.com (Ricardo Lourenço) — Wed, 02 May 2012 13:00:00 +0000

O International Speculative Fiction é o novo projecto de Roberto Mendes, através do qual se procura trazer maior visibilidade à ficção especulativa não-anglófona. De momento encontra-se disponível um artigo sobre a produção de ficção científica em Portugal, da autoria de Teresa de Sousa Almeida, assim como as regras de submissão de textos.

But what exactly is International Speculative Fiction?

International Speculative Fiction (“ISF”) is an e-zine with free online distribution every 3 months featuring Speculative Fiction exclusively of International authors (non-anglophone authors).

ISF will publish 3 to 4 short stories per number, as well as one article and one interview!

Also, ISF will publish in its site a short story and an article every two weeks!

We are also aiming to publish a series of articles about the Speculative Fiction scene in various countries. Our first article is called “Science Fiction in Portugal – The Drawing up of a Territory” by Teresa Sousa de Almeida.

8.ª Sessão do Ciclo "Fernando Pessoa: Filosofia, Religião e Ciências do Psiquismo Humano"

noreply@blogger.com (Ricardo Lourenço) — Wed, 02 May 2012 09:30:00 +0000

Ciclo de Conferências – Fernando Pessoa: Filosofia, Religião e Ciências do Psiquismo Humano

Organização: Paulo Borges, Nuno Ribeiro e Cláudia Souza.

Data: 9 de Maio de 2012, pelas 18h30.

Local: Casa Fernando Pessoa.

Entrada: Livre.

A oitava sessão do ciclo de conferências Fernando Pessoa: Filosofia, Religião e Ciências do Psiquismo Humano ocorrerá dia 09 de Maio de 2012 na Casa Fernando Pessoa. A sessão tem início às 18h30 e inclui a seguinte programação: Luiz Miguel Roza Dias e Maria do Sameiro Barroso, Fernando Pessoa e os paradigmas da normalidade, memória, testemunho e contexto. Palestra conjunta. Convidamos todos os interessados a estarem presentes nesta sessão.

Finalistas dos Locus Awards 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Ricardo Lourenço) — Tue, 01 May 2012 21:21:00 +0000

Science Fiction Novel

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Leviathan Wakes, James S. A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

11/22/63, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton as 11.22.63)

Embassytown, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan)

Rule 34, Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)

The Children of the Sky, Vernor Vinge (Tor)

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Fantasy Novel

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A Dance with Dragons, George R.R. Martin (Bantam; Harper Voyager UK)

Snuff, Terry Pratchett (Harper; Doubleday UK)

The Wise Man’s Fear, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW; Gollancz)

Deathless, Catherynne M. Valente (Tor)

Among Others, Jo Walton (Tor)

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First Novel

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Ready Player One, Ernest Cline (Crown; Century)

God’s War, Kameron Hurley (Night Shade)

Soft Apocalypse, Will McIntosh (Night Shade)

The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern (Doubleday)

Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, Genevieve Valentine (Prime)

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Young Adult Book

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Planesrunner, Ian McDonald (Pyr)

Akata Witch, Nnedi Okorafor (Viking)

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs (Quirk)

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, Catherynne M. Valente (Feiwel and Friends)

Goliath, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)

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Novella

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The Affair of the Chalk Cliffs, James P. Blaylock (Subterranean)

“The Man Who Bridged the Mist”, Kij Johnson (Asimov’s 10-11/11)

“Kiss Me Twice”, Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov’s 6/11)

“The Ants of Flanders”, Robert Reed (F&SF 7-8/11)

Silently and Very Fast, Catherynne M. Valente (WSFA)

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Novelette

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“Underbridge”, Peter S. Beagle (Naked City)

“The Copenhagen Interpretation”, Paul Cornell (Asimov’s 7/11)

“The Summer People”, Kelly Link (Tin House: The Ecstatic/Steampunk!)

“What We Found”, Geoff Ryman (F&SF 9-10/11)

“White Lines on a Green Field”, Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean Fall ’11)

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Short Story

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“The Way It Works Out and All”, Peter S. Beagle (F&SF 7-8/11)

“The Case of Death and Honey”, Neil Gaiman (A Study in Sherlock)

“The Paper Menagerie”, Ken Liu (F&SF 3-4/11)

“The Bread We Eat in Dreams”, Catherynne M. Valente (Apex 11/11)

“The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees”, E. Lily Yu (Clarkesworld 4/11)

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Magazine

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Analog

Asimov’s

Clarkesworld

F&SF

Tor.com

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Publisher

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Baen

Night Shade

Small Beer

Subterranean

Tor

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Anthology

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Welcome to Bordertown, Holly Black & Ellen Kushner, eds. (Random House)

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-eighth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Griffin)

Steampunk!, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, eds. (Candlewick; Walker UK)

Eclipse Four, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade)

Engineering Infinity, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris; Solaris UK)

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Collection

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Sleight of Hand, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)

The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, Volume 1,

Carol Emshwiller (Nonstop)

Two Worlds and In Between, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean)

After the Apocalypse, Maureen F. McHugh (Small Beer)

The Bible Repairman and Other Stories, Tim Powers (Tachyon)

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Editor

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Ellen Datlow

Gardner Dozois

Jonathan Strahan

Ann & Jeff VanderMeer

Gordon Van Gelder

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Artist

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Bob Eggleton

John Picacio

Shaun Tan

Charles Vess

Michael Whelan

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Non-fiction

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In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination, Margaret Atwood (Talese; Virago; Signal (Canada))

Becoming Ray Bradbury, Jonathan R. Eller (University of Illinois)

Musings and Meditations, Robert Silverberg (Nonstop)

Evaporating Genres: Essays on Fantastic Literature, Gary K. Wolfe (Wesleyan)

Sightings: Reviews 2002-2006, Gary K. Wolfe (Beccon)

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Art Books

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Out of This World: Science Fiction But Not As You Know It, Mike Ashley, ed. (British Library)

Cor Blok, A Tolkien Tapestry: Pictures to Accompany The Lord of the Rings (HarperCollins UK)

Spectrum 18: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner (Underwood)

Masters of Science Fiction and Fantasy Art, Karen Haber, ed. (Rockport)

Jeffrey Jones, Jeffrey Jones: A Life in Art (IDW)