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Charkin Blog
Richard Charkin has linked here in response to some comments I made yesterday on his blog. Just to clarify that this site (to which he links) is my blog, whereas the Apt Studio site [www.aptstudio.com] is our ‘official’ site.
Mr Charkin is former President of the PA (Publisher’s Association) and Chief Executive of Macmillan, and […]
Published: June 28, 2006. Read more →
Screenagers
In an FT from last week, Lord Saatchi comes up with a nice little conceit,
Today, social scientists divide the world between digital natives and digital immigrants. Anyone over the age of 25 is a digital immigrant. He or she has had to learn the digital language. The digital native learnt it like you learnt your […]
Published: June 27, 2006. Read more →
Wall Street Journal on LibraryThing
There’s an article out today in the WSJ covering LibraryThing [although this link may expire in 30 days time].
It’s a puff piece, but a pretty detailed one which will no doubt bring LT to the broader attention of readers, and probably the publishers who really should be looking at this as a great idea for […]
Jason Epstein
I’m reading Jason Epstein’s Book Business, Publishing Past Present and Future in between novels at the moment. It’s the paperback edition, which is important as it has a preface and afterword not originally included in the hardback. The preface to the paperback edition, specifically the first page, convinced me to buy the book. The afterword […]
Published: June 26, 2006. Read more →
The Future of Publishing
This is basically a bit of a brain-dump I wrote for one of my clients about the future of publishing. I’ve tried to remove anything too specific to them and to make it work on a more generic level.
My basic stance is that its not about threats, its about opportunities. But - publishers find anything […]
Published: June 24, 2006. Read more →
Chris Anderson
I’ve just begun listening to Chris Anderson’s podcast from the BEA. [MP3 file here] Not the one where he is in discussion with Michael Cader, which is also brilliant, but just him with a croud of publishers. He says that he only speaks to audiences (unpaid) who he can learn from.
It just strikes me, listening […]
Published: June 23, 2006. Read more →
eBook Update: Standards and devices
Almost terrifyingly, the manufacturers of a number of eBook devices seem to have only just got together to agree on standards in interoperability.
I have to say that everything I’ve seen and heard about the second coming of the eBook - the evangelical ‘iPod for Books’ seems to be vastly exaggerated. In the UK at least, […]
Published: June 21, 2006. Read more →
Recent Podcasts
Jamie Byng on the future of publishing, as part of a Guardian weekly entertainment podcast.
Lots of updates at the increasingly contented BEA podcast site: HP’s controversial ex-CEO Carly Fiorina; Don Tapscott on Web 2.0 in publishing (a bit of a major disappointment, to be honest); Michael Cader (yes, the anooying one from Publishers Marketplace) sounding […]
Published: June 17, 2006. Read more →
Portobello Pictures
We’ve launched the Portobello Pictures website.
The site is a modest collection of the projects Portobello has produced for cinema, TV and the stage, and includes the Oscar-winning Kolya, Dalziel & Pascoe, Tim Roth’s the War Zone (which was coincidentlly shot by my mate Seamus McGarvey) and the current west end adaptation of Sandor […]
June Emissions
Jakob Nielsen has a new book on web usability. Here are eight big no-nos that he says are still being broken.
The decidedly militant publishing 2.0 on exactly why advertisers hate the web: it’s measurable. And as a result, Google is putting its hands up and saying that it can’t really incorporate brand building advertising into […]
Published: June 15, 2006. Read more →