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Continue reading →: Commissioning or Editing?
I once had a meeting with an author who mentioned that his work load (he was an engineer) was now 75% accounting and often times it seems the same in publishing. Weekly, monthly and quarterly sales reports need to be compiled, Royalty payments need to be monitored, stock numbers checked,…
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Continue reading →: Bloomsbury Blues?
There is an excellent piece in the Guardian today on Bloomsbury and its future. It also gives a side shot view of the UK industry as a whole (not intentionally but more in passing). Well worth reading. Here it is!
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Continue reading →: E-paper RSS feeds and the new newspaper
I was discussing e-paper with my sister’s husband over the weekend and we were both intrigued and excited by the prospects of RSS feeds and what they could do combined with e-paper and access to the web. Your news on your flexible e-sheet on a constantly refreshed basis! I imagine…
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Continue reading →: More thoughts on e-readers & digital publishing
I was thinking over the new services which allow movie watchers to buy and download feature films. These services have taken to sending DVD’s alongside the order for reasons I cannot quite understand. So long as the download can be used on another device or burned to a DVD (there’s…
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Continue reading →: Some more useful ideas for publishing job seekers
This blog is becoming more and more about publishing, books and business. That was not my intention but I seem to be writing mostly about the industry so why fight it. I hope to throw some history into the mix too but we will see how that works. I had…
