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Continue reading →: Go Read This | David Worlock | Developing digital strategies for the information marketplace | Supporting the migration of information providers and content players into the networked services world of the future.
Great post by David Worlock this. Touches on porn and dark communities of subscription based information. Best lines of the piece though are below: What we are not getting our heads around is the relationship of the mobile network , mostly owned and controlled by third parties , and the…
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Continue reading →: Quick Link | Market Crash: How to Publish a Bestseller in 33 Days
Sometimes I wonder why there isn’t more crash publishing, it sounds like such fun! This July, when Beaufort’s President, Eric Kampmann, came in to work raving about an article he had read in The American Spectator and mentioned that Rush Limbaugh had spent almost an hour on his show talking…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Hachette e-books removed from Waterstone’s, WHS, and Book Depository | theBookseller.com
Trouble, strife and fallout from the agency model is blowing about in the Uk, watch this space! Hachette e-books have been removed from the websites of Waterstone’s, W H Smith, Tesco and The Book Depository after the publisher said it would move to agency terms from today (20th September). But…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Google’s publishing free for all undermines our literary tradition | Books | The Observer
Interesting piece by Robert McCrum. Not sure I agree entirely with him, but there’s much to like, and a good recommendation or two as well. There’s a lot that’s passionate and useful in Schiffrin’s anguished analysis. He is right to identify a healthy market as the key to a vital culture and…
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Continue reading →: Things I Like | January, February, March, March, March – The Irish Times
I’ve mentioned Blood & Thunder on this site before, it was one of the commissions I made at mercier Press. Well it got a full review this weekend from The Irish Times. And a favourable one at that! Loyalists tend to be cautious about opening up to journalists, but the…
