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Monthly Archives: October 2010

STORE OF THE MONTH: DO YOU READ ME?!

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Not that we don’t have any interesting stores outside of Berlin, but for obvious reasons (2! 5! 25! 30!) here’s a happy birthday post for our friends at Do You Read Me?! who are celebrating their second anniversary with us today. One wasn’t quite sure when they opened two years ago whether an entire store [...]

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MONO.PUNKT #11: SALON LIGHT PARIS

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Sometimes we get asked why we don’t sell at more stores in France, and the reason is simple: apparently, the French don’t like us very much. According to bookstores and one unpleasant distribution experience, the French steal mono.kultur, rather than buying it (which, of course, is wrong). Weirdly enough, France is the only country where [...]

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MONO.KULTUR #25: DAVE EGGERS

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Dear Friends,
Autumn 2010 marks mono.kultur’s fifth anniversary, for which we decided to treat ourselves to working with a like-minded spirit: the American writer, publisher and literary entrepreneur Dave Eggers.
Dave Eggers is a busy man: not only an appraised author since his biographic debut novel A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Eggers also founded the highly [...]

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THE END OF THE BOOK. OR NOT, AFTER ALL.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

It’s funny how after the big boom of e-readers, electronic books and all the fuzz, prognostics and predictions about the soon ending of the book, theoreticians, authors, publishers, marketers – and all kinds of field specialists  – are entering a second turning point and gradually changing their minds again, and giving books – and paper [...]

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Yum

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Swallow is my new favourite food magazine. It is bi-annual and in hardcover and pretty.
The second release is the Trans-Siberian issue, moving from Moscow through Irkutsk, Ulaanbaatar and Beijing. The focus upon Russia might seem a little odd for a food magazine, but Swallow presents a food-themed study of culture that is all the more [...]

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MONO.KLUB #30: DAVE EGGERS

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Dear Friends,
as we’re about to release our forthcoming issue with the admirable Mr Dave Eggers – more on which very soon indeed – we cordially invite you to the informal and suitably autumnal launch event this Saturday at 17h at our friends at Do You Read Me?!. Time plays funny tricks and since we really [...]

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A WELL PREPARED PIANO

Monday, October 18, 2010

Brilliant Hauschka aka Düsseldorf-based pianist and composer Volker Bertelmann realeases his new album on 26 October 2010 and is currently on tour in Europe. You can see him perform on November 3rd in Berlin’s HAU with Max Richter.

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Forever Fractals

Monday, October 18, 2010

R.I.P. Benoît Mandelbrot, and thanks for the trip.

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An Avalanche

Sunday, October 17, 2010

We are currently in a reissue renaissance. In August, there was the Nakahira book, and Errata Editions has been publishing their wonderful Books on Books series since early 2009. Some of these projects are more democratic -  Books on Books is more about disseminating rare and out-of-print (read: prohibitively expensive) photobooks to everyday enthusiasts than [...]

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Breathe normally

Sunday, October 17, 2010

‘Let’s dance!’, a flight attendant would murmur reassuringly to his co-worker before entering the aisle to perform the ritual safety show. But aviation and innovation seem to go hand in hand: As media usage on flights (board magazines, onboard radio and entertainment systems plus personal mobile devices) skyrockets, air carriers and Lady Gaga are now [...]

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