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Agents on Google
Anecdotally, I spoke to a couple of UK literary agents last week, who were in Edinburgh for the book festival. One of the things we discussed was the approach of UK houses towards technology, digitisation, online marketing, websites and the like - in the light of presentations made by the big three (Penguin, Random House […]
Published: August 23, 2006. Read more →
July Emissions
None of these is necessarily fresh, but came up in my scouring of what had been happening whilst I was away.
The Wrong Tail. Slate takes a pop at the LT’s theory of everything.
What are the Long Tail’s limits? As a business model, it matters most 1) where the price of carrying additional inventory approaches zero […]
Published: July 25, 2006. Read more →
The Future of Publishing
This is basically a bit of a brain-dump I wrote for one of my clients about the future of publishing. I’ve tried to remove anything too specific to them and to make it work on a more generic level.
My basic stance is that its not about threats, its about opportunities. But - publishers find anything […]
Published: June 24, 2006. Read more →
June Emissions
Jakob Nielsen has a new book on web usability. Here are eight big no-nos that he says are still being broken.
The decidedly militant publishing 2.0 on exactly why advertisers hate the web: it’s measurable. And as a result, Google is putting its hands up and saying that it can’t really incorporate brand building advertising into […]
Published: June 15, 2006. Read more →
In brief, May 2006
The Times on whether or not an ebook is a good idea, or spells the death of the paperback.
Some numbers about the publishing industry:
Today, at BookExpo America, the Book Industry Study Group unveiled Book Industry Trends 2006, a view of the industry’s dollar and unit sales in the United States. Net revenues, according to the […]
Published: May 30, 2006. Read more →
More Emissions
Music blog aggregator
Redesigned Telegraph on hand held reading devices. More to follow from Bournemouth on that.
Waterstones to build website shock
ALA on how to write for the web and on home page design.
Published: May 13, 2006. Read more →
Charkin on Vision
Richard Charkin laughs at the Telegraph for their vision of the collapse of publishing.
I’m on his side - theirs is a wildly inaccurate vision and someone should have checked at least some facts (like the existence of Audible for example). However, there are some thoughts that it provokes.
Lulu and its ilk may never work. Self-publish-on-demand […]
Published: May 7, 2006. Read more →
April Emit
Penguin is at it again. Working with Chris Ware on a new edition of Candide as well as a number of other graphic artists.
Phil Frost resurfaces, at long last. Looks like he’s still into the same kind of thing, but now in a gallery rather than on the streets. It’s a rightening long time since […]
Published: May 4, 2006. Read more →
Libraries vs. Google
From Medialoper, ‘Librarians versus the search giants.’
You want a hot discussion? Put librarians, Microsoft, Google, and Bob Stein from the Institute for the Future of the Book on a SXSW panel to talk about issues surrounding book digitization (and call the panel “Revenge of the Librarians”). An hour wasn’t nearly long enough for the conversation […]
Published: March 18, 2006. Read more →
The Tyrrany of Good Design
Adrian Shaughnessy, whose How to be a graphic designer without losing your soul was a great, quick read along the lines of Running a Successful Design Practise also writes for the great Design Observer.
What’s great about Shaughnessy is that he is quite iconoclastic and enjoys rubbing things and people (and convention) up the wrong way. […]