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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 →
It’s all about the content, stupid
This precedes a long posting on the massive - fundamental - importance of hman beings and hand-written content for web sites, but I just thought I’d share three links from the superb A List Apart website about writing for the web. [Via Alex]
Reviving Anorexic Web Writing
Better Writing Through Design
In fact, the whole dang ALA archive [...]
Published: August 3, 2007. Read more →
Spot the difference: Betty Binns and Aptstudio.com
It has been pointed out to me that the late, great Betty Binns’ (described by Google as “a prominent graphic designer in the publishing industry”) 20-year old classic on typography, Better Type, has ripped off our new homepage design. That was quick. But we’re OK with it - that’s a by-product of our accelerated culture [...]
Published: August 2, 2007. Read more →
New Site
Just a quick one for those of you reading in RSS. We’ve recently updated our site - visually more than anything, but including some changes under the hood - and welcome any feedback. More changes will follow when this has bedded in, but just to say do come for a visit if you haven’t already. [...]
Mitch Albom - For One More Day
Here’s a new thing.
The thing is a holding page for a project we’ve got coming out in the autumn, for the absolutely-huge-selling author Mitch Albom.
Published: July 27, 2007. Read more →
Longtail Extract Site
This is a bit of background about the site we’ve just launched for Random House Business books, to promote the paperback of Chris Anderson’s big-selling title The Long Tail.
Published: May 25, 2007. Read more →
Long Tail Paperback site launches
We’ve been really busy of late, and will write about this in more detail soon, but wanted to share something we’ve just today put live.
Our new site for Chris Anderson’sThe Long Tail has launched (on the same domain as before, www.longtailbook.co.uk
What’s interesting to us is that the site gives away over 20 extracts from [...]
Published: May 18, 2007. Read more →
Why doesn’t the publishing industry take on Amazon?
Here’s the second (unedited) article I wrote for the London Book Fair daily for the Bookseller Magazine today.
Published: April 18, 2007. Read more →
Innovation in Publishing Nibby
The blog we did last year for HarperPress - fifthestate - has been shortlistlisted for a Nibby. (The Nibbies are the British Book Industry Awards, about as close as you can get to an Oscar). It’s one of four in the Nielsen BookData Award for Innovation in the Book Industry category.
Ok, so we didn’t make [...]
Published: April 5, 2007. Read more →
Reaching Readers Online :: Follow Up
It’s been a couple of weeks since the Bookseller’s Reaching Readers Online seminar. It was interesting, and I’ll be posting more about it soon - hopefully with a checklist of things that I think publishers should be doing with the web.
I’ve had a load of feedback from people who were there - unfortunately it wasn’t [...]
Published: March 29, 2007. Read more →