March 20, 2010

THE END OF PUBLISHING?

A clever ad from Dorling Kindersley Books. Via Dave Wilton at Wordorigins.org.

Addendum. Today is the seventh anniversary of The Cassandra Pages. Congratulations, Beth, and keep staving off the end of publishing!

Posted by languagehat at March 20, 2010 01:00 PM
Comments

It would appear that the inspirational link is supposed to be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFz5jbUfJbk; the one that's there causes a crazy cascade of reloads. And the original didn't have voiceover, it seems.

Posted by: MMcM at March 20, 2010 02:29 PM

I just read and heard the You Tube segment with no problems (starting from clicking on the word ad). Very clever!

Posted by: marie-lucie at March 20, 2010 02:47 PM

Yes, it's the text under (more info) there, where they explain their inspiration, that has the broken link (someone copied an abbreviated version ... and all), not anything here.

I see that the correct link is also in the referenced Wordorigins post. (Where the answer is presumably that it was translated into English for submission to Cannes, where it won the lion d'argent that year.)

Posted by: MMcM at March 20, 2010 02:56 PM

Doppelganger by James A. Lindon, 1967.

Posted by: mollymooly at March 20, 2010 06:29 PM

Ahem. I would fix the link, but y'all can Google.

Posted by: mollymooly at March 20, 2010 06:30 PM

Don't know if the link I provided is the one you intended, but it works.

Posted by: language hat at March 20, 2010 08:14 PM

First the palindromic goat porn and now this, the world turn'd upside down.

Posted by: Nijma at March 20, 2010 09:14 PM