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Apt’s links for February 28th
Kate Pullinger: Writers deserve a better deal from digital publishing | Comment is free | The Guardian - Hell Yeah! Arguing for better splits on digital content sales. Just don’t tell anyone that the pricing model is still broken.
FREE LOVE - Trendwatching report on free stuff.
The Long Tail: Oprah + FREE = Blockbuster -
TheStar.com […]
Published: February 29, 2008. Read more →
Coversourcing judging - check your Flickr mail!
Just a very quick note to say that we’re getting in touch with some entrants (not just the top 20) about the Coversourcing judging taking place this week. The only way we can do this is through Flickr mail - so please check your Flickr inboxes as soon as you read this. If you don’t […]
Published: February 28, 2008. Read more →
Apt’s links for February 20th through February 27th
Typographic Synthesizer - So Good It’s Magic! : iain tait | crackunit.com - Right. Ok. That’s it then. Let’s go home. [Via Iain]
Advancing Advanced Search - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design -
Apt’s links for February 19th
Is the iPhone the Ultimate eBook Reader? - ReadWriteWeb - “Will a developer write an app to read books on the iPhone or Touch?” asked last100’s Daniel Langendorf. Actually, a few developers already have, and at least one is doing very well.
Free business book is Web sensation - Yahoo! News - “I can tell you […]
Published: February 20, 2008. Read more →
Apt’s links for February 15th through February 18th
Blackberry GPS Tracker - How It Works - How to avoid busy people you don’t want to see at Frankfurt.
mediabistro.com: GalleyCat - GalleyCat actually writes an article. And it’s on Free, Tim O’Reilly’s Keynote from Tools of Change.
iPhone as Ultimate Reader? Maybe. iPhone as Ultimate Mobile Browser? Definitely. - Tools of Change for Publishing - […]
Published: February 19, 2008. Read more →
James Frey
We’ve just launched a site for James Frey’s UK publisher, all about A Million Little Pieces and My Friend Leonard.
Given the whole Oprah / Smoking Gun stuff, there’s still a lot of debate about the books.
There’s some details about why we did what we did over here, or you can engage in the […]
Published: February 18, 2008. Read more →
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (200,000 times)
In 1999, I wrote a business plan for the company I was then working for, Canongate Books. The plan was for the Scottish Arts Council, and the idea I’d come up with was to make “pop promos for books” which would get a web and film festival showing, and drive traffic to the Canongate site […]
Published: February 14, 2008. Read more →
Apt’s links for February 13th
Tools of Change — Tuesday Morning - Some excellent notes from George Walkley over at Tools of Change. Really interesting stuff - particularly on the O’Reilly data.
Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - books: Publishers are lost online - “These [three] announcements suggest we have not moved on from the year 2000 - at least a generation […]
Free: PDF vs. MP3?
In among all the recent interest in free I wanted to pick up on something I mentioned in passing (I think during a question) at RRO a couple of weeks back.
We have an increasingly broad range of options these days for electronic reading devices - be it the basic (phone, computer), dedicated (Kindle, Sony Reader), […]
Published: February 13, 2008. Read more →
Free (conomics)
We’ve long, long, long-since argued that giving books away for free online is a great way to market them.
However, not all - in fact very few, possibly close to none - of our clients agrees, despite some great anecdotal evidence from the like of Corey Doctorow, Seth Godin and now, as fate would have […]
Published: February 11, 2008. Read more →