03/08/07
Apt’s links for August 2nd
- CR Blog » Designs on your phone bill – “Japanese student Maki Miura’s rather charming reinterpretation of the ubiquitous mobile phone bill.”
- A List Apart: Articles: Reviving Anorexic Web Writing – Monday morning began precisely as Monday mornings are not supposed to begin: with an argumentative prospective client standing in my office (sans appointment) telling me why I should stop what I’m doing and build him a “quick and dirty” website.
- Hachette rebuilds web sites – “We will sell full-price… [these sites] are not set up to compete with our customers.” Instead, the sites will look to market and sell “added value” products such as signed editions.
- Anil Dash: Pixels Are The New Pies – Notes on graph design.
- Conde Nast Portfolio Magazine – Business Strategy – As reminded by Iain / CrackUnit – portfolio has some interesting info graphics and other design (and content) flashes of brilliance. Surprisingly.
- 3D Mailbox: Worst. App. Ever. – They say it’s not a parody. I just don’t believe it. 3D Mailbox. One to go in the list of things Never. to. do.
- iain tait » Shift Happens – Watch This Video – Pure numbers as to why we work in new media. Another great referral from Iain.
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# Comment by Alex Fiennes @ 7:47 am, August 3, 2007:
The Hachette link needs a subscription to read. Any chance of a bit more of a summary and maybe a link to the end thing rather than just the article?
# Comment by Peter Collingridge @ 8:48 am, August 3, 2007:
Hachette Takes Direct Approach
Hachette Livre has instigated a total overhaul of its web presence across its UK publishing houses. New-look sites will roll out from August and sell books direct to consumers.
The group has built a rapid fulfilment system to enable it to sell directly from its own warehouses. “We eventually intend to have next-day delivery,” said Hachette commercial director Richard Kitson. “We will sell full-price—[these sites] are not set up to compete with our customers.” Instead, the sites will look to market and sell “added value” products such as signed editions.
The relaunch begins with Hodder and Little, Brown at the end of August. The new sites will include features such as author blogs and podcasts, and Little, Brown’s will also feature its e-books programme, which encompasses around 10 new titles a year.
This will be followed by Orchard, Hodder Children’s Books and Hachette Children’s Books, which will roll out from the end of August. Headline will launch its own site in September. Octopus’ new site will launch later this year and will gather all of its imprints under one umbrella. Octopus is also looking at selling extra content by subscription.
John Murray is also likely to have its own website. Orion, the most up-to-date of the group’s websites, will not change. Hodder Education will relaunch later this year, along with a corporate site for the publishing group at http://www.hachette-livre.co.uk.
The moves are part of Hachette’s new focus on digital issues, which has seen the appointment of a global digital board to look at storage and marketing. “Because the group has come together so quickly and been disparate, we will probably access whatever is in place in America and put digital content into it,” Kitson said. “That’s the easiest bit. What’s hardest is working out how to use the content.”