The author has left no stone unturned as he explores the rise of the e-book and how that has impacted the book world, and while digital technology had been feared by the publishers to begin with, it seems to have opened up new ideas to the 'print' world and seems to have rebooted the 'book' brand and publishing world - which is all good for us readers! This is one of the most comprehensive and detailed explorations of the publishing industry with respect to the last 10 to 15 years of the digital revolution that I have ever read. Mitchell, Elvis (9 June 2000). "FILM REVIEW; Selling Books on the Street in a Quality-of-Life Town". The New York Times. FILM REVIEW; Selling Books on the Street in a Quality-of-Life Town (Published 2000)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. BookWars: Filmcritic.com Movie Review". Archived from the original on 2006-10-23 . Retrieved 2009-09-24. Christopher Null/Filmcritic.com

I’m certainly not recommending every book about war ever written, or even every book I’ve read on the subject, but instead a collection of the most meaningful. I’m sure I’ll miss some great books you’ve loved, so please suggest them in the comments. Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization by John Robb.If you want to understand the future, read this book. John Robb is one of the greatest living systems thinkers in the world. The name for the kind of warfare John Robb studies is known as 4th Generation Warfare. You can think of him as a modern John Boyd — applying his thinking not to troop warfare or Pentagon politics but to super-empowered individuals, decentralized groups, and economics. I first read this book while researching for a speech Robert Greene (see below) was giving at West Point. I’m not sure any other text has shaped my view of politics and international affairs in the time since. This was a fascinating look at the world of books and how the evolution of digital technology has changed the publishing world and its' outlook over the years! A book and audiobook titled 10,000 Miles to Go: An American Filmmaking Odyssey, [4] about the unusual physical and creative process behind the making of BookWars, was published in 2015.I appreciated the graphs and numbers worked in and I was actually able to digest the statistics within Thomason’s writing and explanation which I personally am not usually very capable of

At the same time, Beat writer and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Bookstore viewed the cut of BookWars, and applauded it as being “Anarchistic”. Thompson also shares with the reader statistical analyses of both public as well as private sales data from the industry. Of particular value is the statistical analysis appearing in the chapter on the explosion in self-publishing. Thompson’s work is authoritative and will be of tremendous value to future readers and researchers in understanding how a 500-year-old culture of print was able to absorb and adapt. I’m aware of no other title that provides such a useful account of how publishing professionals have fought to ensure stabilization and reliable delivery of content. The granular data on the publishing industry is this book's strength. Sometimes that's pretty dull (who cares exactly what rate mp3s overtook cassettes in audiobook sales?), but sometimes it's really interesting: according to sales of one publisher in 2016, e-books account for more than half of total book sales for romance novels, 30-45% for other fiction, 10-30% for fiction but only 5% for kids' books (possibly because the less linear and/or text-only a book is, the less pleasant its e-book experience is). As Virgil put it, “the sword decides all.” We must learn how: the strategy, the motivation, defenses. We must understand and respect the darkness and the consequences: pain, death, evil, greed.

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In Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing , John B. Thompson explores the digital transformations that have turned book publishing on its head over the last 30 years. Offering a noteworthy study of recent changes to the publishing world, this work is well worth reading to understand where the book was in the latter part of the twentieth century and where it is headed well into the twenty-first, writes Amy Lewontin . History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides.I won’t lie to you, this is a long book. But it tells the history of the epic war between Athens and Sparta — it is geo-politics, it’s strategy, it’s leadership, it’s lessons in grief, rhetoric, and persuasion. From the beautiful and moving words of Pericles’ funeral oration to the cunning and creative tactics of the Spartan general Brasidas, this book has everything. There is also the powerful lesson of Athens’ overreach, which culminated their loss at Syracuse and still has immense implications today. And then there was the ultimate overreach by Sparta, who won the war but had no understanding of how to rule an empire. It’s a must read for any student of the world. (My favorite little tidbit, Thucydides fought in the war, but was apparently disgraced and missed much of it because he caught the plague.) As a follow up, the book A War Like No Other by Victor David Hanson is a good accessible but modern history of the battle.