20/06/07
A few Quick Things
OK, so my RSS feed got so clogged up while I was away, it crashed, dumped all my unread articles and started from scratch again. Even taking away the 75+ articles the Guardian’s new RSS engine seems to spit out, that’s a lot of reading. I’ll add notables as they come up.
BookSquare tells publishers that their “blog outreach” programmes are the tupperware parties of the noughties, but are also hobbled by the fact that their corporate sites are so, well, lame:
“Your corporate website is not friendly nor usable enough to serve the community you’re trying to build… Also, generally speaking, it’s a really good idea if you have a robust, interesting, not-necessarily-sales-oriented publishing blog to link back to - if the blogosphere is like a neighborhood, your blog is like a house or condo or however you want to consider it. We can pretty much guarantee that your corporate website is not friendly nor usable enough to serve as an appropriate extension of the community you’re trying to build. Quite the opposite.”
You’ve read the extract. Now, please, buy this book. Typo: The Last American Typesetter or How I Made and Lost 4 Million Dollars, by David Silverman.
BS also weighs in, again, on the whole Charkin vs. Google thing.
Studio 60 is back on air. Phew.
Seth Godin reminds us of his tips for authors
Is it that Penguin is particularly brilliant? Or that they are just doing what any creative company in their position should be doing? Doesn’t matter. They’re doing it, and doing it well. But you can see why other publishers have penguin-envy.
Found: Font Chat ice breaker. Is it really anal of me to wish they’d done it all in valid HTML rather than images?
I wish I’d gone here and here. And (see above) Penguin did.
Lots of interesting stuff going on around author events; readings; publicity and so on. Including the LondonLitPlus.
Don’t you just love the web these days?
I’m going to post this now and come back for more in the morning.
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# Comment by David Silverman @ 2:29 am, June 25, 2007:
Thank you for encouraging people to buy Typo and for putting it so bluntly.
As an author, getting published is the Holy Grail, but getting people to actually buy the book, well, that’s like finding the Grail and not being attacked by a killer rabbit.
So thank you very very much.