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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 →
Coversourcing: Early days yet
It’s been a surprisingly busy day out on the coversourcing stump today - with earlybird AceJet170 drumming up a significant lead in the coversourcing primaries by lobbying hard in his safe constituencies. Many of his supporters have been very vocal - some even calling it before the day is through.
But it’s still early days […]
Published: January 10, 2008. Read more →
Reaching Readers Online - 2008
Update: All of my files from the presentation are available for download here
I’ve been asked back to The Bookseller’s Reaching Readers Online seminar, which takes place at the end of this Month.
There’s some really interesting people looking like taking part, including those within the publishing industry (from Penguin, Little Brown and Headline) and within the […]
Coversourcing
Late last year, we launched a project for Random House that we’re very excited about.
We’re excited because it’s a pretty experimental, even risky, project for Random House Business Books’ lead title for 2008, Jeff Howe’s Crowdsourcing. Jeff is a staff writer for WIRED magazine (working with editor Chris Anderson, whose book The Long Tail was […]
Published: January 9, 2008. Read more →
New project live: The Wisdom of Whores
If things have been quiet around here - in terms of blog posts at least - it’s because we’ve been running fast at a number of projects over the last few months. No excuse for paltry blogging, but we’re coming to the point where some of these projects are now going live.
The first out is […]
Published: December 6, 2007. Read more →
Freeconomics: Radiohead vs. Publishers
As we all know, last week Radiohead did something interesting. I’d like to acknowledge that it was a very smart (and lucrative) thing for an established band to do - and to use it as an entry point into debate about the future of the book and its distribution online.
To recap, from our perspective […]
Published: October 9, 2007. Read more →
For One More Day - Live
Our new site for Mitch Albom’s new paperback, For One More Day, has just gone live. We think it’s quite special.
Published: September 7, 2007. Read more →
The 100,000 hits of Gil Scott Heron
Talking of Canongate. When I worked there (from 1997-2001), I came up with a crazy idea to reconcile my love for pop videos / the web with my frustration at publishing books that couldn’t reach a wider audience.
The idea was simple - give my film-maker /animator mates a copy of a Canongate book, a […]
Published: August 26, 2007. Read more →