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Today’s links
Busy, but a few pointers.
Honest admission by Juliet Annan on the effectiveness of publishing ‘brands – at what they are good for.
The (busy) digitisation machines.
The future of the libraries, slowly emerging.
More evidence of the inverse business model.
The lightweight admission by Alastair Campbell that he never used a computer whilst working at No. 10.
Published: February 22, 2006. Read more →
Reading
Another article on the aPod, which I still haven’t read.
And one on digital books.
Published: February 21, 2006. Read more →
Archived and unpublished article on Google Print from last summer
The impetus for posting this was Corey Doctorow’s article in BoingBoing
which proved that the story is not dead – and in some part gave me the confidence to post this. Read it.
Published: February 17, 2006. Read more →
Print on demand
Two articles from Booktrade.info on POD and sef-publishing. The first in The Guardian is Vic Keegan’s story of going to proof with, among others, Lulu.com.
The second is in Freelance UK
The majority of published writers feel there is a role for self-publishing but believe it will remain separate to the ‘mainstream,’ new research reveals.
The online study, [...]
Published: February 16, 2006. Read more →
Reading
BBC’s numbers for the growth in online retailing (they’re big): UK consumers bought £8.2bn ($14.3bn) of goods from websites last year – up 28.9% on 2004, according to market analysts Verdict
The Times on the man who would be Alan Giles on HMV, and his vision for the future (clue: it’s online).
And while we’re at it, [...]
Published: February 13, 2006. Read more →
The business of books: #776
GOB reminds us of a December posting (I think the first of his I read) discussing the economics of publishing.
It’s a comment correspondence with an ‘anonymised’ author called ‘Jeremy’, and they discuss the earnings of authors against publishers, with some pretty interesting numbers attached.
The Huffington Post on the death of US publishing – and the ‘fallacy of synergy’
“It’s a given that Americans don’t read books…”
the deal actually is part of a broader trend where American media outfits are getting rid of their book publishing subsidiaries. Over the last decade European companies have emerged as dominant players in the book business, taking over increasing numbers of major U.S. commercial houses and imprints.
Random House [...]
More predictions
I know these are taken from ever-brilliant GOB, but that’s the point of this place: to aggregate what I read into one place an an outboard memory.
So, first of all, the similarities between Sundance and publishing
Once the festival took off, beginning with the blockbuster success of 1989’s “sex, lies and videotape,” suddenly studios took [...]
Published: February 10, 2006. Read more →
PN: Music industry exec at LBF: Adapt or die?
Music man to address digitisation at LBF
THE EUROPEAN BOOKSELLERS Federation, in association with the BA, is bringing a top music industry executive to the London Book Fair next month to address a seminar entitled: ‘Digitisation of content: the end of bookselling and publishing as we know it?’
Bland to run Canongate?
Fascinating interview with Sir Christopher Bland in today’s Guardian, where he declares that on leaving BT next year, at the end of his contract, he will
spend more time running Leith’s and Canongate, as well as the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he is chairman.