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Continue reading →: Amazon Encore Signs JA Konrath
Amazon Encore the publishing imprint of the internet retailer has signed a deal with JA Konrath to publish his next ‘Jack’ Daniel title, Shaken. This is pretty big news, as Mike Shatzkin points out: this is a significant jolt to conventional publishing economics. Sales of Konrath’s $2.99 ebook will deliver…
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Continue reading →: Osprey Publishing Acquires Angry Robot
I like Osprey. I think they are very smart operators and they know what they are doing and why. They have also built two very nice niche brands (Osprey and Shire) that are almost instantly recognizable in their markets, certainly by the kind of people who buy books and information…
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Continue reading →: A Quick Note On Media 2020
Others have written decent summaries on what happened at Media 2020, a conference on the future of media in Ireland that was run by Media Contact in Croke Park Conference Centre yesterday. Blathnaid Healy has a blog summary using Twitter hastags [clever methinks] and Fin O’Reilly has an interesting round-up…
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Continue reading →: Some Excellent History Podcasts
[picapp align=”left” wrap=”true” link=”term=volcano&iid=8604972″ src=”7/a/1/c/Ash_spews_from_8f77.jpg?adImageId=12678428&imageId=8604972″ width=”380″ height=”534″ /]First and foremost I thought I’d remind us all that we live in times historic. A time that despite enormous change and significant scientific achievement can still be grounded by natural causes and nature itself. But what this blogpost is about is three…
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Continue reading →: Links Of Interest (At Least To Me) 23/04/2010
Amazon release an exclusive Kindle edition Time book on the impact of the contraceptive pill. Here A Moleskine for recipes, these are very nice indeed, I’ve seen them in the flesh (HT: @Kottke) Here A very nice little time tracking tool, Freckle. Here
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