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New Work: www.granta.com
We’ve just launched the first phase of the new website for literary quarterly, Granta Magazine.
Granta is “the magazine of new writing”, and recently celebrated its 100th issue. The magazine dates back to 1889, and our new site coincides with the publication of Granta 101, the first issue edited by Jason Cowley, who was appointed by […]
Published: April 15, 2008. Read more →
Coversourcing: last word from here
Just a quick update to anyone still reading this blog looking for updates from Coversourcing. Coversourcing now has its own blog (and RSS feed) - and there are a couple of new posts over there this morning: news of free signed first editions for entrants, and Jeff’s own take on the way the jacket design […]
Published: March 14, 2008. Read more →
Crowdsourcing… The Winner is…
Adam Humphrey, marketing manager at Random House and responsible for this campaign for Crowdsourcing, talks us through the final decision that has been reached late into the night…
So, after over 300 total entries, 12,000 visitors and over 20,000 votes, we have a Coversourcing winner.
Published: March 3, 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 →
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 →
Coversourcing: Legal Update From Random House
OK - we promised last week that we’d appeal to the legal team about only allowing entries from the UK and ROI. The good news is that we’ve done that, and had a response. The bad news is what they said:
As discussed the only way to open this competition up to entrants from outside the […]
Published: February 6, 2008. Read more →
Reaching Readers Online Reminder - Tomorrow!
Update: All of my files from the presentation are available for download here
Just a reminder. I’m talking tomorrow at The Booksellers’ 2008 seminar called “Reaching Readers Online” aimed at helping anyone in the publishing industry who might be “seeking to forge direct relationships with consumers”.
The presentation is done, and will be posted on here and […]
Published: January 30, 2008. Read more →
Coversourcing: Update
Update: See comments for an update on eligibility and location - we’re working on it!
Well, it’s getting busy out there. We’ve got 61 entries so far, with more coming every day.
This busy-ness is not without its problems however - we’ve already lost a few noble entrants out there. Some bowed out for unknown reasons (possibly […]
Published: January 25, 2008. Read more →
Coversourcing: Random House says….
Looking for a nod from the Coversourcing judges? Well, you won’t get that here, but the below is a post from Adam Humphrey, marketing manager at Random House Business Books, whose job it is to market Crowdsourcing: The Book. Adam knows a bit or two about the kind of book jackets that make the grade, […]
Published: January 15, 2008. Read more →