Posted in General, Shake Down, Site Information on July 30, 2006 | No Comments »
My Favourite and the most popular posts for the week 24th July -30th July 2006
Monday: Doom gloom and the whipping tail
Tuesday:A book, is a book, is a book
Wednesday: Authors will drive change
Thursday: But so will Search
Posted in General, Holidays, Site Information on July 29, 2006 | 1 Comment »
On holiday now until the 14th August! I’ll still be posting as I have some work stuff to do too but they sure will be lower in frequency!
Enjoying sunny Chicago
Eoin
Posted in Authors, Blogging, Books, Bookselling, Business, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Google Book Search, Marketing, Print On Demand, Publishing, Publishing Careers, Publishing Innovation, Self Publishing, Tech & Web stuff, e-publishing on July 27, 2006 | 2 Comments »
And you say “Doh!”
It may seem obvious that search will drive change because Search seems to be changing everything. Well firstly that is not true, Search is changing quite a lot of things but not everything. After all, as the first part of this series argued, a book is a book etc. Search will not [...]
Posted in Authors, Blogging, Books, Bookselling, Business, Copyright, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, History, Marketing, Print On Demand, Publishing, Publishing Careers, Publishing Innovation, Self Publishing, Submissions, e-publishing on July 26, 2006 | 7 Comments »
The big idea (or at least my idea)
The current publishing industry is stacked against authors. Not in any sense deliberately, all sides have had a role in reaching the current point, but equally not all sides have benefited as equally as the others. Indeed publishers who were once the primary winners are now behind retailers [...]
Posted in Books, Bookselling, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Media & News on July 25, 2006 | 6 Comments »
The end of printed newspapers
Scott Karp [linking to Scott Donaton in AdAge whose column is excellent] posts about the point of no return for print publishers. His point is important, critical even, for newspaper and magazine publishers. You might wonder then why I am making a deal of it here on a blog about book [...]
Posted in Authors, Blogging, Books, Bookselling, Business, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Google Book Search, Media & News, Publishing, Publishing Innovation on July 25, 2006 | No Comments »
Google Book Search post again, it’s getting too regular to post about it on its own but it gives a good insight into how they view their project internally.
Here
Joe Wikert ponders the rumours of Apple moving onto e-books.
Here
Maddest Marketing Idea Ever, lets box! [via PublishingNews.co.uk]
Here
Posted in Authors, Books, Bookselling, Business, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Publishing, Publishing Innovation on July 24, 2006 | No Comments »
Richard Charkin is full of gloom these days, his two most recent posts have seemed to foretell the inevitable decline of publishing especially the last which features a comment from Niko Jaakkola of the St James Partnership who wonders there:
But, 20 years into the future, will we still see the media mogul of old? [...]
Posted in Authors, Blogging, Books, Bookselling, Business, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Print On Demand, Publishing Innovation, Publishing People, Self Publishing on July 24, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Skint Writer finally got his Pod proof copies and his post on that is here.
More importantly he has a really excellent review of the process for anyone interested in POD or self publishing. You can read it here. Here is a small flavour of what is a really great story and an exceptionally open discussion [...]
Posted in Agents, Authors, Blogging, Books, Bookselling, Business, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, History, Non-Fiction, Print On Demand, Publishing, Publishing Careers, Publishing Innovation, Publishing People, Self Publishing, Shake Down on July 23, 2006 | No Comments »
A new feature
Every Sunday from now on i will collect together the posts I liked or people liked and post them in a list for easy access. It means that I have a record visually over time and you can just access the shake down arcive to see popular and possibly decent posts as they [...]
Posted in Authors, Blogging, Books, Business, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Media & News, Publishing Innovation, e-publishing on July 22, 2006 | 7 Comments »
There has been some discussion recently on Blogburst a service that allows newspapers to access the work of bloggers. They describe themselves thus:
What is BlogBurst?
BlogBurst is a syndication service that places your blog content on top-tier online destinations. You get visibility, audience reach and increased traffic, while publishers get a wide range of new coverage [...]
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