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Continue reading →: Quick Links | Adapt to recover, warn publishing chiefs | theBookseller.com
Publishing is hard! Barnsley, whose company saw sales fall 13.3%, the largest drop among the top 10 and despite Hilary Mantel’s Booker-winner Wolf Hall, explained it had been necessary to take “a lot of cost out of the business”, including cutting the number of titles published by 20%. “We are…
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Continue reading →: Quick Link | Waging war on WordPress: Posterous prepares the switch | Media | guardian.co.uk
I’m not sold on Tumblr or Posterous. If they succeed good luck to them, bit I think in the long run, WordPress and Automattic have the edge! What’s the attraction? A less bloated back end (there’s pills for that) without multiple features you never use. An end to the barrage…
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Continue reading →: Quick Link – The Tyburn Angling Society
Great article this! The Society’s architect, David Gaunt, has prepared a detailed map of the proposed demolition zone as well as renderings showing South Molton Street and Berkeley Square as watercourses. Bowdidge has descended into the sewer itself in order to report on the river’s condition (“Members were concerned by…
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Continue reading →: Stanford Ushers In The Age Of Bookless Libraries : NPR
The second article today that reinforces the thinking that the slide towards ebooks is starting to become unstoppable! The new library is set to open in August with 10,000 engineering books on the shelves — a decrease of more than 85 percent from the old library. Stanford library director Michael…
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