Inside Google Book Search has a funny little post today called: A New Chapter For Authors.
From that:
The book sold above expectations when it was first published in 2002. But three years later, after Foote decided to include it in Book Search, she had a wave of new orders, and started getting email from readers she [...]
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The more I work in this industry the more one key feature comes to the fore, marketing. People don’t really NEED books. That is a sad reality. There is no reason for 1000 or 20,000 or 2,000,000 people to buy any book.
A book will not help them to breathe and work and walk and [...]
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I read a rather good blog called Disillusioned Lefty which today has a post called How To Write. now normally I would run a mile before blogging about bloggers writing about blogging but this post has solid resonance for writers of all shades be they bloggers or not. Go read and enjoy.
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I have mentioned before that MySpace is a huge publisher, well in Ireland (And its strange that I don’t mention it more given that I live here) Bebo.com is the king of the jungle. Everyone is on Bebo it seems sometimes.
But there is more to online publishing in Ireland than Bebo or even MySpace [...]
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Posted in General on June 29, 2006 | No Comments »
But I probably don’t:
Linkie Winkie is confusing a few people so far.
Check it out
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Some thoughts on Updike and Kelly.
Here
Richard Charkin ponders the wonders of Oxfordshire publishing prowess.
Here
Someone else learns from Slate magazine and publishes a magazine on iTunes (Does it make me out of date if this still confuses me?).
Here
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Google announced on it official blog yesterday that:
WBG, a German publisher, today decided to drop its petition for a preliminary injunction against the Google Books Library Project. WBG (whose legal action was supported by the German Publishers Association as an industry model) made the decision after being told by the Copyright Chamber of the Regional [...]
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Posted in General on June 28, 2006 | No Comments »
Some of you may have noticed two recent additions to the collection of feed icons on the right hand column. If you have not, take a look. They are the results of a truly innovative site and company called xFruits.
One is a mobile version of my RSS* feed. The newest one however is something [...]
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if:book has an interesting and thought provoking post on the future and purpose of peer review.
Here
While you are at it perhaps you should also be visiting the publication that is causing much of the trouble, Nature.
Here
I was in the mood to blog about bookselling and bookshops but having done some initial research I can see [...]
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Having written many articles since my initial Trend VS Fad post I am happy to say that one idea is firmly entrenched in my mind, that Books and Publishers and the Web are now firmly and symbiotically locked together. The relationship has yet to resolve itself into a fully matured one but there can be [...]
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