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Russian Graphics
Some good things.
Published: May 13, 2006. Read more →
Everyman Production Values
From today’s Guardian, a feature on Everyman Classics
. And on the book as object,
The book as a material artefact is of crucial importance to Campbell’s vision. “I strongly feel,” he says, “that British publishers used to be the best book-makers in the world. You think of the private press books of a century ago, […]
Bournemouth
I spent Monday and Tuesday in Bournemouth for the BA. I’ll write a detailed account of each of the “plenary sessions” I attended over the weekend. But the two most interesting sessions were the digitisation panel (Charkin, Newton, CEO of Nielsen Bookdata, and tragically James Heneage) and Damian Horner’s punt on the backlist.
Pan Mac live
It looks, ish, like Pan Macmillan has finally launched its new website.
Published: May 7, 2006. Read more →
Ottakers Edinburgh
I walked past the soon-t0-close Ottakers on George St yesterday, and it was mobbed. All books 75% off. Which made me wonder about the economics of that. Anyone know?
Charkin on Vision
Richard Charkin laughs at the Telegraph for their vision of the collapse of publishing.
I’m on his side - theirs is a wildly inaccurate vision and someone should have checked at least some facts (like the existence of Audible for example). However, there are some thoughts that it provokes.
Lulu and its ilk may never work. Self-publish-on-demand […]
Converged vision
Fascinating article in medialoper about the vision they see as Yahoo’s for the converged entertainment platform of the 21st century.
Amazon 2.0
The usually interminally boring Publisher’s Lunch posted a highly visionary ‘blogwatch’ article - which it strikes me may not have been written by them - which I am going to post in full.
Amazon 2.0
What does Amazon want to be when it grows up? In today’s interactive, social networking, tag-and-post Web 2.0 culture, whatever you want […]
Published: May 4, 2006. Read more →
Small Publishers
It’s hard to know what is happening in publishing. On the one hand we have the agglomeratisation which is undoubtedly going to increase in the coming months, be it in the aggressive war chest accumulated by Lagadere, whatever happens with the HMV/Waterstones/Ottakers sales, or some other large sale, purchase or merger. All of this points […]
April Emit
Penguin is at it again. Working with Chris Ware on a new edition of Candide as well as a number of other graphic artists.
Phil Frost resurfaces, at long last. Looks like he’s still into the same kind of thing, but now in a gallery rather than on the streets. It’s a rightening long time since […]