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Graffiti My Soul
I’ve just read the MS of this title for Canongate and it’s phenomenal. One of thebest things I’ve read in a while and, strangely, I’ve enjoyed it more than David Mitchell’s Black Swan Green. Strangely because both are written from the point of view of a young boy: GMS a 15 year old mixed race […]
Published: May 13, 2006. Read more →
Times Emit March 06
Silence of late has been due to London Book Fair and lots of travel as well as work; what follows is a list of link to all the stuff that distracted me inthe last week.
LBF:
Vicky Barnsley tells Alan Giles to sort out their website; and that Amazon is a bigger threat than Google;
Google books backlist […]
Published: March 10, 2006. Read more →
Today’s links
Busy, but a few pointers.
Honest admission by Juliet Annan on the effectiveness of publishing ‘brands - at what they are good for.
The (busy) digitisation machines.
The future of the libraries, slowly emerging.
More evidence of the inverse business model.
The lightweight admission by Alastair Campbell that he never used a computer whilst working at No. 10.
Published: February 22, 2006. Read more →
Reading
Another article on the aPod, which I still haven’t read.
And one on digital books.
Published: February 21, 2006. Read more →
Reading
BBC’s numbers for the growth in online retailing (they’re big): UK consumers bought £8.2bn ($14.3bn) of goods from websites last year - up 28.9% on 2004, according to market analysts Verdict
The Times on the man who would be Alan Giles on HMV, and his vision for the future (clue: it’s online).
And while we’re at it, […]
Published: February 13, 2006. Read more →
More predictions
I know these are taken from ever-brilliant GOB, but that’s the point of this place: to aggregate what I read into one place an an outboard memory.
So, first of all, the similarities between Sundance and publishing
Once the festival took off, beginning with the blockbuster success of 1989’s “sex, lies and videotape,” suddenly studios took […]
Published: February 10, 2006. Read more →
Product placements
Two stories. The first, being a Lost fan (the last episode was called ‘Fire and Water’), of a book which is being published as well as written into the series as ‘found’ in the suitcase after the crash. See if that works. The second, product placement in the Curious George animation.. Both from the Book […]
Published: February 9, 2006. Read more →
Ft.com on google’s hot water
Not got time to read this yet…
BMW Audio
Random House have gone in with BMW to produce free Podcasts written by leading crime writers… interesting… watch the space.
Published: February 6, 2006. Read more →
Apropos of nothing
“When it comes to the really important decisions, data trumps
intuition every time.”
Jeff Bezos
One , two , three
Published: February 5, 2006. Read more →