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Continue reading →: The Arts & The Crisis! A Kiosk Appearance
I was on Nadine O’Regan’s The Kiosk show last Saturday discussing the impact of the economic crisis on the Arts. Critic and journalist Sara Keating was in studio with me and Angela Dorgan of First Music Contact (they of Hard Working Class Heroes) was on the line (the snow caused…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | When Your Core Competency Is No Longer Core to the Business You’re In « The Scholarly Kitchen
So just what business are publishers in? So how did Sears falter? (I’ll leave Montgomery Ward aside as by the mid-1990s they had a number of fatal problems with their management unrelated to the emergence of the Web). It’s tempting to just say Sears didn’t understand the Internet, but that…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Introducing the new Angry Robot digital short story store :: Angry Robot Books
Meant to talk about this before. Frankly it’s a sensible and savvy move, like nearly everything Angry Robot/Osprey do. Why books need to be substantial in a digital environment I don’t now. In fact brevity may now be a key winning element. That’s mostly the logic behind my own recent…
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Continue reading →: Quick Link | News « Quercus Books
Wow, big move this. I’ve a sense that Sci-Fi and Fantasy will be a hotbed of new things for some time to come! Quercus Publishing is delighted to announce that Jo Fletcher is joining the company in January 2011 to launch a new fiction imprint, Jo Fletcher Books. The new…
