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Reaching Readers Online :: Full Programme
Here’s the full programme for this bookseller conference next month.
Reaching Readers Online
15th March 2007, Riverbank Park Plaza, London
13.30 Delegates arrive and register
13.45 The Bookseller’s welcome and introduction
Chair: Shaa Wasmund, social networking entrepreneur and consultant to Bebo
Shaa is an internet entrepreneur and expert on social networking sites. A former Cosmopolitan Businesswoman of the year, [...]
Published: February 27, 2007. Read more →
Granta: Best of Young American Novelists 2007
Granta Magazine publishes landmark editions every ten years, which collect together the novelists whom they consider to define their generation.
In 1983 it brought together Amis, Barnes, Rushdie, Naipul and many others – for the first time. In 2003 it was Monica Ali, Nicola Barker, David Mitchell, Dan Rhodes and others.
Granta also publishes the Best [...]
Londonstani at Bombay Bronx
Had some fun last night. The Londonstani samplers came back from the printers and we decided to take some down to Nihal’s club Bombay Bronx at the Notting Hill Arts club. Pictures after the jump
Published: February 21, 2007. Read more →
Londonstani Paperback Campaign – More
So, as I was saying. We’re doing work with HarperPress on the paperback of Gautam Malkani’s novel Londonstani.
Here’s what we knew at the beginning:
The hardback didn’t sell well.
Mainstream media pretty much hated it.
But, the book had a lot going for it: it was well written, the buzz around it – and internationally – was [...]
Published: February 19, 2007. Read more →
Reaching Readers Online
Just a quick note – I’ve been asked to take part in a panel as part of The Bookseller’s (nice new site by the way, although the links in their emails and all my old links don’t work) half day digital seminar, called Reaching Readers Online.
I’m on a panel chaired by Bebo’s new UK MD [...]
FourQuads: Brand Damage?
Before we moved into our new house, we stayed in Chiswick, for about the last week. I’d end up going up to the High Road to get a coffee, whilst taking the boy out of the house for a stroll at the same time at around 10.30 am. And every day, there would be the [...]
We’ve Moved!
Sorry for the silence, been moving house, office, country etc. Lots of stuff planned and happening (not least this Bookseller digital day in March) in the coming weeks. New office address is Apt Studio, Milk2, 34 Southern Row, London. W10 5AN. Mobile remains the same…
Published: February 14, 2007. Read more →