Posted in Agents, Authors, Blogging, Books, Bookselling, Business, Copyright, Future of Books, General, Google Book Search, Jay Rosen, Jeff Jarvis, Journalism, Publishing Innovation, Publishing People, Reporting, Self Publishing, Tech & Web stuff, The long Tail, Wired.com, Writer, Writing, e-publishing, ebooks on August 31, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Sometimes there is just so much out there on the web it is hard to narrow down what to link to. Because of that I have decided today to do link clusters, a couple of links around each idea/concept. We will see how it works!
Promoting a book especially early in a career presents challenges in [...]
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Posted in Authors, Blogging, Books, Bookselling, Business, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, HarperCollins, Jeff Jarvis, Print, Print On Demand, Publishing, Publishing Innovation, Self Publishing, The long Tail, Wired.com, e-publishing, ebooks on August 31, 2006 | Comments Off
Wired.com ponders Blurb, self-publishing & blogs
A very nice post on the Organic Researcher pointed me to a Wired.com article on Blurb.com the self-publishing outfit that I have linked to several times before. The basis for the story is their new plan to introduce a blogbook.
The Booksmart Factor
I recently changed the RSS feeds on this blog [...]
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Posted in Agents, Authors, Blogging, Books, Bookselling, Business, Print On Demand, Publishing, Tech & Web stuff, The How To, The long Tail, e-publishing, ebooks on August 30, 2006 | 3 Comments »
The Long Tail Series Part One(August/September 2006)
1) Introduction to The Long Tail for newbies
The Long Tail is basically the idea that beyond the bestseller lists and the top X hundred number of products in a given market there are many hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of alternative products that might actually be of more [...]
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UPDATE: Google Book Search finally posted on it.
Techcrunch, a site that covers technology says that Google Book Search is now facilitating download. So does BusinessWeek and PaidContent.
There is no mention of it on Inside Google Book Search at least not yet (though they do now allow yoiu to add GBS to yoiur website, a fairly [...]
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Cork Graham blogs his new book and the process of submitting it for print. Early days and worthwhile.
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For writers considering their life online, Booksquare has an interesting and thoughtful post.
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Penguin tempt, you, me and everybody who likes books and the idea of serialsed books.
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Terry Whalin who has a wonderful blog has two very nice posts [...]
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Posted in Authors, Blogging, Business, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Media & News, Print On Demand, Publishing, Publishing Innovation, The long Tail, e-publishing on August 28, 2006 | No Comments »
Joe Wikert has a brief review of The Long Tail on his blog. Nice taster of what is to come on this blog. (A friend recently asked if I was getting paid per mention of this book. I assure you that I am not)
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Scott Karps publishing 2.0 has a nice riff on MySpace magazine idea [...]
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I am very excited about this project NewsAssignments.net if only because I see it as a fantastic model for publishing in general. If it works for news I can see no reason why it will not work for books of all kinds!
There are many opinions on this project and not all of them favourable but [...]
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Posted in Blogging, Books, Bookselling, Business, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Piracy, Publishing, Publishing Innovation, Publishing People, Vox, e-publishing on August 27, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Paul Carr of The Friday Project got me going the other day when he talked silly talk about books/blooks but his post today is genius and not just because he uses bad language but mainly because he kills a very stupid argument very dead.
Go Read
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Posted in Authors, Blogging, Books, Bookselling, Business, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Media & News, Publishing, Publishing Innovation, Self Publishing on August 26, 2006 | No Comments »
Hugh MacLeod talks with Seth Godin about his new book and the result is a very good interview with a wider range then you would think. If it happens to have reached the same conclusion as I have on Print and Digital who am I am to argue. [Via Buzzmachine]
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Plagiarism Today rubbishes a long told [...]
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Posted in Blogging, Books, Bookselling, Business, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Marketing, Print, Publishing, Publishing Innovation, Trend Vs Fad Watch, e-publishing, ebooks on August 25, 2006 | No Comments »
I Hate Memes
If there are two things that the web has enabled that I truly despise they are chain e-mails and their closely related (in my view) cousins, Blog/E-mail/WebMemes. Now I should qualify that a little, when I say memes I mean the lists, questions and quizzes that get passed from person to person and [...]
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