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We’re all dupes
Phenomenally stimulating and provocative article in the NY Times, analysing, in a post-longtail way, why
How could it be that industry executives rejected, passed over or even disparaged smash hits like “Star Wars,” “Harry Potter” and the Beatles, even as many of their most confident bets turned out to be flops? … Conventional marketing wisdom holds […]
Published: April 24, 2007. Read more →
More Links, mainly design, April 2007
Sorry, this is a really fragmented post. More of a collection of links, combined with some notes.
A really, *really* great site for any Penguin-philes. (Via City of Sound, and others.) And Pelicans. I’m still waiting for a wild sighting of JK Galbraith’s American Captialism. And they also have A Fletcher week section to the […]
Paris Review Archive: Kurt Vonnegut
From the Paris Review in memoriam of Kurt Vonnegut (with whom I am disproportionately proud to share a birthday), a 1977 interview.
So you know, the same birthday is shared by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Leonardo di Caprio. And June Whitfield. Illustrious or what?
Published: April 20, 2007. Read more →
So this is a nice site
New Ted site.
TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is the legendary conference where smart people from across lots of disciplines make ultra-short - around 20 minute - presentations to each other. It’s been going for a number of years, and they’ve just (thanks CoS) redone the site. Many of the talks are now online.
See percussionist Evelyn […]
Published: April 18, 2007. Read more →
Why doesn’t the publishing industry take on Amazon?
Here’s the second (unedited) article I wrote for the London Book Fair daily for the Bookseller Magazine today.
Links, April 2007
A few links which have inspired me in the past couple of weeks. In fact there have been many more but I don’t want to deluge you.
Starting with eBooks, digital book stuff and copyright. John Lanchester’s great piece in the guardian on copyright, books, and google.
Backing up my previous posts on giving it all away, […]
Published: April 16, 2007. Read more →
London Book Fair 2.0
Here’s one of two articles I wrote for The Bookseller, for their London Book Fair daily editions. I rejected this one for all sorts of reasons, but thought it worth posting anyway (especially as how I haven’t in a while).
The brief was to write something accessible for the majority of visitors to the fair, […]
Innovation in Publishing Nibby
The blog we did last year for HarperPress - fifthestate - has been shortlistlisted for a Nibby. (The Nibbies are the British Book Industry Awards, about as close as you can get to an Oscar). It’s one of four in the Nielsen BookData Award for Innovation in the Book Industry category.
Ok, so we didn’t make […]
Published: April 5, 2007. Read more →