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Dundee School of Media Arts & Imaging
I went to Dundee last week to give a talk about ‘being a producer’ to a load of lovely students. It’s something I don’t really feel qualified to know very much about in the big scheme of things. Producer was always the job title I got lumped with. I felt particuarly vulnerable when I realised […]
Published: November 28, 2006. Read more →
Spring Clean
I’ve had a couple of long train trips recently, which have given me the chance (with enough foresight to open all my bookmarks in the presence of an internet connection before getting on the train) to go through everything I’ve wanted to flag up for the past couple of months.
These things are never really […]
Published: November 19, 2006. Read more →
E-Ink device summary piece
Another aspect of the spring clean, some of it better orgainsed in this case.
Specialist Outlets
There have been a couple of articles this week about ‘non-traditional’ retail outlets driving sales of niche titles through recommendation. The first, in the New York Times, discusses how a Bronx deli sold half the number of copies than were ‘booktracked’ (through traditional outlets) across the USA,
Published: November 4, 2006. Read more →