Posted in Authors, Books, Bookselling, Find of the Month, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Publishing, Publishing Careers, Publishing Innovation, Publishing People, Tech & Web stuff on April 30, 2006 | No Comments »
This is a new feature prompted by a real find. On reading The myth of “keeping up” on the Creating Passionate Users blog you are directed to Joe Wikert’s Book Publisher and eContent Blog. And a darn fine blog it is too.
For those interested in a career in publishing he has a great section [...]
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A really quality article on reading and unrealistic goals and The myth of “keeping up”!:
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Browsing the blog of The Institute for the Future of the Book I read over details of their forthcoming Sophie project and its well worth looking at and pondering:
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Normally I like to give three links but today is Sunday, tomorrow is [...]
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I have been looking through the really excellent blog and site O’Reilly Radar.
The site is the blog of O’Reilly Publishers who are one of the largest Computer Book Publishers in the USA. By far the most interesting aspect of all of this is that because of their involvement in computers and publishing their perspective on [...]
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It’s only as you explore that you find ideas that will engage you and expose some of your assumptions for what they are.
There is a quality post on O’Reilly Radar about Purpose Driven Media.
Read the post but follow the discussion also and do, if you can (its behind a subscription wall), read the NYT article [...]
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An interesting post from Brenda Coulter on her blog concerning Digitisation and second hand book sales.
Read it:
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And visit here website:
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There is a great post in Slushpile a blog I may have already mentioned. It’s on Self-Published authors and why people hate them. Not sure that people hate them but it is a good explanation of why there is a certain amount of skepticism of self-publishing:
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Posted in Books, Bookselling, Business, General, Media & News, Publishing, Publishing Careers, Publishing Innovation, Publishing People, Tech & Web stuff on April 27, 2006 | No Comments »
A great aggregating site for news on publishing from all angles. Worth reading everyday, if you have the time (which you should). visit it:
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The site of one of my favourite sci-fi publishing units, Tor. yes I am afraid I have a tendency to read High Fantasy and Science Fiction. The FAQ’s are worth reading in [...]
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While discussing the future with a colleague yesterday I accidentally said something that had been swimming in my head for some time. It was a simple idea, that maybe the current change is not really the CHANGE but the symptom of change that happened some time ago and the following through of all the implications [...]
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Businessweek has a decent article which tell us that book publishers are dead set against Google Book Search!
Google also has managed to rile up the publishing industry. Book publishers and authors have been up in arms against Google since early 2005, after the company announced its ambitious Google Print for Libraries project, now called Google [...]
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Interesting article here on Elsevier and jounal publishing.
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