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More Links, mainly design, April 2007
Sorry, this is a really fragmented post. More of a collection of links, combined with some notes.
A really, *really* great site for any Penguin-philes. (Via City of Sound, and others.) And Pelicans. I’m still waiting for a wild sighting of JK Galbraith’s American Captialism. And they also have A Fletcher week section to the […]
Published: April 24, 2007. Read more →
So this is a nice site
New Ted site.
TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is the legendary conference where smart people from across lots of disciplines make ultra-short - around 20 minute - presentations to each other. It’s been going for a number of years, and they’ve just (thanks CoS) redone the site. Many of the talks are now online.
See percussionist Evelyn […]
Published: April 18, 2007. Read more →
Links, April 2007
A few links which have inspired me in the past couple of weeks. In fact there have been many more but I don’t want to deluge you.
Starting with eBooks, digital book stuff and copyright. John Lanchester’s great piece in the guardian on copyright, books, and google.
Backing up my previous posts on giving it all away, […]
Published: April 16, 2007. Read more →
Londonstani Graffiti & Film
So, the final post on this campaign. (Read the background here, here and here)
The plan was that we would to do something wild, something that totally circumnavigated the mainstream media (the very same media that had had the knives out and so very sharp for the book when it was published in hardback).
We agreed […]
Published: March 12, 2007. Read more →
Londonstani Paperback Campaign - More
So, as I was saying. We’re doing work with HarperPress on the paperback of Gautam Malkani’s novel Londonstani.
Here’s what we knew at the beginning:
The hardback didn’t sell well.
Mainstream media pretty much hated it.
But, the book had a lot going for it: it was well written, the buzz around it - and internationally - was […]
Published: February 19, 2007. Read more →
Recent Emissions
In no order, and certainly not chronological:
‘Participation’ is becoming the fifth ‘P’ of marketing (from Fallon Planning)
Heavily linked last year, but worth a remebering link: visualisation methods
A very Californian set of predictions for 2007
Seth says, Don’t Make A Bad Deal
Sony again caught out astroturfing
Customised newsfeed printed on paper, anyone?
The A-Z of Second Life
Booksquare agrees with […]
Published: January 29, 2007. Read more →
The Key Phrase is “3.5 inches is suspiciously perfect for reading.”
Booksquare has made the one insightful comment I’ve read since Steve Job’s iPhone presentation. And it is that the ‘iPhone can save the book industry’. Two quotes from the full article:
The iPhone also features a surprisingly large screen, and has the ability to automatically change the screen orientation when a user turns it sideways. At […]
Published: January 16, 2007. Read more →
The death of flash animation?
This follows from a thowaway line in the idea-packed conversation (part one; part two) between Russell Davies and Richard Huntingdon, two big brained thinkers on the future of communications.
Published: January 5, 2007. Read more →
Spring Clean
I’ve had a couple of long train trips recently, which have given me the chance (with enough foresight to open all my bookmarks in the presence of an internet connection before getting on the train) to go through everything I’ve wanted to flag up for the past couple of months.
These things are never really […]
Published: November 19, 2006. Read more →
Specialist Outlets
There have been a couple of articles this week about ‘non-traditional’ retail outlets driving sales of niche titles through recommendation. The first, in the New York Times, discusses how a Bronx deli sold half the number of copies than were ‘booktracked’ (through traditional outlets) across the USA,
Published: November 4, 2006. Read more →