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BEA Podcasts
Who’d a thunkit? The BEA is officially making podcasts of its sessions publicly available – under creative commons! They’ll be waiving copyright next. Don’t anybody tell John Updike. Or Nigel Newton.
Published: May 31, 2006. Read more →
In brief, May 2006
The Times on whether or not an ebook is a good idea, or spells the death of the paperback.
Some numbers about the publishing industry:
Today, at BookExpo America, the Book Industry Study Group unveiled Book Industry Trends 2006, a view of the industry’s dollar and unit sales in the United States. Net revenues, according to the [...]
Published: May 30, 2006. Read more →
Salam Pax: Film
Salam Pax: The Baghdad Blog is set to become a film.
Marc Evans, the director of films My Little Eye and Snowcake, will direct the film with a script from Ross Klavan, co-author of the Joel Schumacher film Tigerland.
Co-produced by FilmFour and the film company Intermedia, filming is expected to begin in the autumn.
Polly and I [...]
Librarything
Sigh. AbeBooks has bought a 40% stake in Librarything. Press Release.
Why the sigh? Well, really, because I wanted it.
Librarything (LT) is a website that allows visitors to catalogue their book collections, ‘tag’ books in their collection, and then see how their collection relates to others’ with the same books and tags. As such it [...]
Medialoper
Medialoper is a very well written blog that seems to be about convergence, but is really about lots more stuff that interests me. Two recent articles stand out: the first (and preferred) on ‘Publishing versus the net generation‘ which includes:
Despite the fact that it’s had ten years to prepare, the publishing industry doesn’t have a [...]
BEA snippets
So, clearly, I wasn’t there, but have been trying to piece together some of the highlights from this year’s BEA.
Protected: Project X
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Published: May 13, 2006. Read more →
More Emissions
Music blog aggregator
Redesigned Telegraph on hand held reading devices. More to follow from Bournemouth on that.
Waterstones to build website shock
ALA on how to write for the web and on home page design.
Graffiti My Soul
I’ve just read the MS of this title for Canongate and it’s phenomenal. One of thebest things I’ve read in a while and, strangely, I’ve enjoyed it more than David Mitchell’s Black Swan Green. Strangely because both are written from the point of view of a young boy: GMS a 15 year old mixed race [...]
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