Monthly Archives: July 2006

Sunday Shake Down – 30th July 2006

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

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Posts will be slow coming

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

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. . . . But so will Search

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 … Continue reading

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Authors will drive change . . .

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 … Continue reading

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A book is a book is a book

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 … Continue reading

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