Archive
Vic Keegan on the Future of Book Sites
I’m sure you’ve all seen this, but well worth a read. It’s about new social media sites around books and reading, and Vic’s article is an overview of the “new start-ups fighting for attention in this fledgling space in an attempt to become the dominant provider”
Where is all this leading? As these book sites get [...]
Published: June 21, 2007. Read more →
A few Quick Things
OK, so my RSS feed got so clogged up while I was away, it crashed, dumped all my unread articles and started from scratch again. Even taking away the 75+ articles the Guardian’s new RSS engine seems to spit out, that’s a lot of reading. I’ll add notables as they come up.
BookSquare tells publishers that [...]
Published: June 20, 2007. Read more →
Jonas Odell / Motionographer
Wow. I just found this video, which is the new one by Jonas Odell, for The Hours.
Odell is represented by the pretty much universally brilliant Nexus Productions, home to some of the best young animators in the world. And whilst I don’t like the song, it’s a great piece of work, almost breathtaking. It [...]
Published: June 19, 2007. Read more →
Lots of Late Links (and holiday)
Blog-wise, I’ve been slack recently, but I have been collecting some interesting links (and trying to buy a house, and doing lots of work, and all other excuses). So, by way of distraction, here they are.
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 →
We’re all dupes
Phenomenally stimulating and provocative article in the NY Times, analysing, in a post-longtail way, why
How could it be that industry executives rejected, passed over or even disparaged smash hits like “Star Wars,” “Harry Potter” and the Beatles, even as many of their most confident bets turned out to be flops? … Conventional marketing wisdom holds [...]
Published: April 24, 2007. Read more →
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 [...]
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 →
Links, March
In brief:
Another review of Google’s Unbound event for publishers. Quoting Chris Anderson, who notes that the average book sells 500 copies,
“If [authors] are writing books to be read, how can we maximize that?,” he asked. “De-stigmatize the mid-list, de-stigmatize the long tail — 999 readers is success! If you can turn that into 2,000, that’s [...]
Published: March 29, 2007. Read more →