Steve Martin is going to publish a book of his tweets and the tweets he’s received with the book proceeds going to charity. Due to come out in June 2012, Grand Central Publishing will be releasing the long title that meets the tweet criteria of fewer than 140 characters: “The Ten, Make that Nine, Habits of Very Organized People. Make that Ten.”
With the new release of Art Spiegelman’s MetaMaus this month by Pantheon, Publisher’s Weekly Interviewed Spiegelman about digital media and the “physical book.” In this interview he states the changes happening in today’s society, “…is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.” For the full interview visit Publisher’s Weekly.
The digital release by Forbes and JESS3 explores Steve Job’s life in a 60-page graphic novel, The Zen of Steve Jobs due out sometime this fall. The book focuses on Steve’s life through the 1980’s, when his life took a drastic change and follows the challenges that came with it. Through a friendship he formed with a Zen Buddhist priest, Kobun Chino Otogawa, Steve learns the meaning of walking meditation of kinhin and the Japanese design concept ma. Both of these shaped his life and design practice when he later returned to Apple.