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Carly Fiorina & other podcasts
On holiday I caught up with a load of podcasts, some from BEA, and others culled from elsewhere. One of these was the presentation given by ex Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina.
She’s pretty controversial, mainly among those who either used to work for her (she was unceremoniously fired) or who didn’t like her style. [...]
Published: July 27, 2006. Read more →
eBooks: further update
It’s hard to know what to make of the eBook future at the moment.
On the one hand, we have the promise of an imminent entry by Apple with an iPod that is also an ebook device. As Engadget says, it’s “no e-ink device”, but apparently,
the possibility is very real, since according to a [...]
Published: July 25, 2006. Read more →
July Emissions
None of these is necessarily fresh, but came up in my scouring of what had been happening whilst I was away.
The Wrong Tail. Slate takes a pop at the LT’s theory of everything.
What are the Long Tail’s limits? As a business model, it matters most 1) where the price of carrying additional inventory approaches zero [...]
McCrum on Londonstani
Robert McCrum, literary editor of The Observer, posted an article on the Guardian blog this week, about HarperCollins’ expensive TV advertising campaign for the £350,000 novel, Londonstani.
The expensive TV campaign for Londonstani may pay dividends, but it’s unlikely to become established practice for other first novels.
Unfortunately, there is no TV campaign for Londonstani, and [...]
Published: July 21, 2006. Read more →
The Long Tail
We (Apt Studio) were asked by Random House UK to create an online campaign for the UK release of Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail. (Production still above)
This is very exciting as the concept behind the book is very relevant to publishing, and I blogged about Chris before I even knew we would be involved in [...]
Published: July 20, 2006. Read more →
Away
I’m going on holiday for 2 weeks, to the south of Spain. See you when I get back, July 18th.
Published: July 4, 2006. Read more →
‘Recent’ Emissions
In no particular order:
Wired reviews Google’s new payment system, Checkout.
GOB was very into the idea of this guy’s online book; I trust GOB, but the chapter headings sound so full of jargon that I’d really want to give it a wide berth unless heavily pursuaded otherwise.
Believe it or not, Umberto Eco on why Macs and [...]
Published: July 2, 2006. Read more →
Amazon
Been coming across some interesting [and yes, quite old, but still relevant] articles about Amazon, it’s technology platform, and general structure. Which I suppose I should be interested in more, but hadn’t been up to now.
Slashdot link to a Werner Vogels (Amazon CTO) interview.
Salon article – Amazon’s 43 Secrets on the links between AMZ and [...]
Snowbooks on brand
On the same thread as the Charkin discussions, Emma Snow of Snowbooks [a new publishing house which lots of people are very excited about, and which jointly won a Nibbie for I think small publisher of the year] made the following comments to my original comment, which you can read here.
I disagree. I don’t believe [...]
Charkin discussions
As promised, here is a (lightly) edited trasncript of my discussion with Richard Charkin, CEO of Pan MacMillan, former President of the PA, and with his Sara Lloyd, Macmillan’s new Head of Digital Publishing Macmillan’s Director of Communications.