http://sgblog.schlagergroup.com Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:31:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.2 http://sgblog.schlagergroup.com/?p=146#comment-734 Tue, 15 May 2007 16:32:15 +0000 http://sgblog.schlagergroup.com/?p=146#comment-734 And now comes the news (as seen at the NY Times, filed in the last hour) that the deal has been struck. http://sgblog.schlagergroup.com/?p=142#comment-733 Tue, 15 May 2007 14:42:22 +0000 http://sgblog.schlagergroup.com/?p=142#comment-733 Well, I found the American Newspaper Repository at http://home.gwi.net/~dnb/former_newsrep.html. Baker seems not to have a homepage, but there is a fan site with lists of articles: http://j-walk.com/nbaker/index.htm. Various of the links on this page take you to his writings on the topic, though I haven't perused them. http://home.gwi.net/~dnb/former_newsrep.html. Baker seems not to have a homepage, but there is a fan site with lists of articles: http://j-walk.com/nbaker/index.htm. Various of the links on this page take you to his writings on the topic, though I haven’t perused them.]]> http://sgblog.schlagergroup.com/?p=142#comment-732 Tue, 15 May 2007 14:28:37 +0000 http://sgblog.schlagergroup.com/?p=142#comment-732 Yes, I remember reading some of Baker's articles about this very subject. I haven't heard much from/about him in a while. It would be interesting to know if he has written anything recent on this subject. http://sgblog.schlagergroup.com/?p=142#comment-731 Tue, 15 May 2007 14:05:41 +0000 http://sgblog.schlagergroup.com/?p=142#comment-731 For the past decade or so Nicholson Baker has been writing laments concerning the fact that libraries are ridding their archives of printed newspapers and magazines. (Well, his rants go farther afield, but he does focus his diatribes on the death of printed matter.) Several such articles appeared in the New Yorker (dating back to about 2000.) he also laments storage on microfilm and microfiche (citing the unwieldy nature of it and the fact that these technologies make the print hard to read, if one can read it at all.) At one point, he was so discouraged and obsessed that he founded the nonprofit American Newspaper Repository and got hold of 6,000 square feet of space in a brick mill in New Hampshire as a space to store such stuff--purchased at auction when libaries were divesting. I don't know if he is still at it, but I would guess so. He has, for example, purchased from the British Libary the entire run of Joseph Pulitzer's polychromatic New York World, from the 1890s. Pulitzer had discovered that illustrations sell papers, and he ran with the idea in a big way. Baker's article about this is "A Reporter at Large" (July 24, 2000). http://sgblog.schlagergroup.com/?p=106#comment-89 Fri, 15 Dec 2006 22:37:35 +0000 http://sgblog.schlagergroup.com/?p=106#comment-89 Steve, I have heard no other information about the sale, and I don't really expect to hear anything until the sale itself happens. There is speculation out there in various sites on the web, but I would view it all with suspicion. Thomson has always operated in a very tight-lipped way, and I don't expect this situation to be any different. Rest assured I'll blog about new events/information as I receive them.