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Fifth Estate
We’re very proud to announce the under-the-radar launch of Fifth Estate.
Published: October 3, 2006. Read more →
Alan Fletcher
RIP Fletch.
Published: September 27, 2006. Read more →
August Emissions
Sharpworld, an often incredible set of video entries. This gained my attention from Coudal, but for including Oscar Fischinger, Len Lye and many other early animation work links on YouTube.
Saw RadioHead live at Meadowbank, Edinburgh. Amazing, although the visuals were a bit duff. I have to say that Johnny Greenwood is god, and whoever the [...]
Published: September 6, 2006. Read more →
Long Tail Stats
Below are some stats for the first month of the Long Tail promo being online. Make of them what you will - but we’re delighted that we’ve managed to direct a lot of the interest in the concept of the long tail towards the RHUK edition of the book.
The central tenet of our strategy [...]
Published: September 2, 2006. Read more →
Getting Dewey eyed about books
Design Observer has a nice post about cataloguing books (at least in the pre-Librarything era). Arguing about Melville Dewey (father of the bibliographic taxonomy most publishers I hope hate) versus Georges Perec may seem a little, um specialised:
Perec lists several possible ordering schemes in his essay, and in practice I have used a number of [...]
Waterstones.com
Waterstones has soft-launched its new, revised, and much-touted-as-the-saviour-of-the-beleagured-retailer website, which now is visible at www.waterstones.com
First of all, I’m impressed that they’ve got it done on time, seeing as this was announced back in May in the outcome of the W/Ottakers news cycle.
The website was done by code who also do parent company HMV.
Here’s some [...]
Published: August 30, 2006. Read more →
Browse / search / inside the eBook
This follows on from all of the ebook posts of late, and there is a collection of (mostly) related links at the end of this post. What the thread is here is the delivery of words digitially over a number of platforms.
The first point to note is the absence of announcement by Apples’ Steve Jobs [...]
Published: August 16, 2006. Read more →
Typomania
If you like this sort of thing, then some footage of Goudy making letter forms may be the kind of thing you like.
And in which case Erik Spiekermann on typomania - dreadful aflliction - may also get you going. As will the tune, Wordy Rappinghood by the Tom Tom Club.
Details here at typeculture, [...]
Published: August 15, 2006. Read more →
Do the math
A list of publishing industry statistics. I think this came via Seth Godin, but wherever it came from, it’s terrifying. Whilst, as you’ll notice from the title, it’s an American-slanted set of stats, it’s still no reason to feel in any way encouraged. The question is, how to make books relevant in this kind of [...]
Long Tail Extract on iTunes
Thanks to Medialoper we realised that Apple’s iTunes store allows you to submit PDFs as a ‘podcast’ - thereby opening up the audience for the content you’re promoting. So, we uploaded the exclusive extract from The Long Tail yesterday, and - as if by magic - you can now download it for free from iTunes. [...]
Published: August 12, 2006. Read more →