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Cornell Professor Offers a Guide to Producing Handsome Books on Home Computers Scott Carlson interviews Douglas Holleley

Douglas Holleley, an educator and photographer, is the author of Digital Book Design and Publishing, recently released by the Cary Graphic Arts Press of the Rochester Institute of Technology and Mr. Holleley's own press, Clarellen. Mr. Holleley's manual details the ways that modern technologies and software can help aspiring authors or artists produce their own books at home, taking the power that has belonged to publishers for centuries and putting it instead in the hands of the people. Mr. Holleley is currently a visiting professor of art at Cornell University. [read more]

Digital Book Design and Publishing by Dr. Douglas Holleley

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London Bookseller Pays $14,000 for Harry Potter Book

According to Reuters, a first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone sold for almost $14000 at London action house Bonhams Tuesday. Purchaser Adrian Harrington, who dubbed the book "probably the most important children's book since The Lord of the Rings," said he will offer the volume for sale at his London bookstore.