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All Hail The Book Seer
The Book Seer is another little project we’ve just released onto the web. It’s very simple, and hopefully quite nice. Tell it what you’ve just read and it’ll suggest some stuff to read next.
It’s very simple. It’s just pulling suggestions from Amazon and LibraryThing – at the moment. I’d like to pull stuff from more [...]
Published: June 9, 2009. Read more →
Marion Deuchars, Illustrator
If you’re a designer or illustrator, you probably know Marion Deuchars’s work already. If you’re not, you probably do too – even if you don’t know the name.
People in publishing will know that Marion is responsible for many fantastic book covers, such as those above (for Penguin and Canongate), and our own personal favourites, the [...]
Published: April 27, 2009. Read more →
London Book Fail 09 – Fail
I gave a Pecha Kucha (hint: really fast presentation) to the Society of Young Publishers for their “Canon Tales – Chapter 2” session at this year’s London Book Fair.
[Canon Tales] aims to promote publishing as the richly creative industry that it is, blending fantastic speakers with rapid visuals to remind us that creativity [...]
Published: April 23, 2009. Read more →
Portobello Books
Hot on the heels of Phase 2 of Granta Magazine, we should also be talking about the launch of the website of Granta’s sister publisher, Portobello Books.
Portobello Books is an independent publisher of “books with a purpose”:
It believes that enlightenment ought to be entertainment. There will be nothing dull, slow or clotted about the prose [...]
Published: April 17, 2009. Read more →
Public Performances, April 2009.
A very quick quartet of announcements:
Peter will be taking part in the SYP’s Canon Tales event at the London Book Fair on Tuesday 21st April. It’s a pecha kucha gig, and other speakers include Cory Doctorow, Jamie Byng (of Canongate and Peter’s former boss and current DJ partner) and design legend Jon Grey. I think [...]
Published: April 16, 2009. Read more →
Granta Magazine, Part 2: Now with added wonders
It’s been almost a year since the launch of our new site for Granta Magazine, which we wrote about in this blog post. But as we noted then, the site wasn’t entirely done, and last week saw the launch of the second phase, which brought a new range of functions and new methods of subscription [...]
Published: April 9, 2009. Read more →
Quietube: YouTube without the distractions
Hello! Here’s a little treat from the Apt Labs. We got bored with all the comments and crud on YouTube, so we built Quietube – think of it as Readability for your favourite videos.
A little bookmarklet lets you easily and quickly generate a nice, clean page – and a short URL from any YouTube page. [...]
Published: March 13, 2009. Read more →
TED Screens “This is Where We Live”
Some really, really exciting news: the astonishingly A-list TED conference, which has just wrapped up in California, asked to show our 25th Estate film, This is Where We Live and to put it on the DVD given to delegates in the goodie bag.
Of course we said yes! Speakers include Tim Berners Lee, Bill Gates, Olafur [...]
Published: February 10, 2009. Read more →
Republic Day Parade, 29 January, Delhi (UKYPE 09)
[Written as part of our visit to India with the British Council. All such posts will be listed in a dedicated category; apologies if this isn't of interest. If it is of interest, then you can also see more on our Flickr set]
On republic day, a national holiday and without meetings planned, James, Lucy [...]
Published: February 1, 2009. Read more →
Jaipur Book Fair, 22-24 January 2009 (UKYPE 09)
[Written as part of our visit to India with the British Council. All such posts will be listed in a dedicated category; apologies if this isn't of interest. If it is of interest, then you can also see more on our Flickr set]
As the cliché goes, India is a land of stark contrasts. And for [...]