“The Sorted Books project picks books out of collections whose spines, when placed in sequence, can be made into a sentence or story”. Take a look, it’s fascinating.
Skills in the Digital Era part two
on 26 September, 2008
Posted in Publishing, Reading devices, eBooks
The Society of Young Publishers evening on Wednesday proved to be very illuminating, and it turned out that I agreed with everything Chris Meade had to say, especially about the importance of the creative roles in digital media, although from the other side of a five-year cline, and had anticipated some of his conclusions in [...]
State of the Writopshere
on 25 September, 2008
Posted in Blogging, Publishing, read/write culture
A few weekends ago I came across this article in the Independent on Sunday (thanks to a tweet from Professor Sue Thomas). The article itself trotted out the cliches on ebooks, with John Walsh saying “[ebook] callowness makes you weep” and hence we go back to dead wood fetishes and the boredom of square [...]
Skills in the digital era
on 24 September, 2008
Posted in General, Publishing, eBooks
I’ve been asked to be part of a discussion tonight given by the Society of Young Publishers.
‘While publishing companies invest significantly – if cautiously – in new technology, and the ‘digital age’ continues to accelerate, the portfolio of skills that publishers need is expanding rapidly. From editorial to production to marketing, the growing influence of [...]
Free and fabulous
on 16 September, 2008
Posted in eBooks
It seems that we are beginning to trip over increasingly enlightened authors on the digital frontiers here at Pan Macmillan. Just as we are poised to publish the the seventh novel in David Hewson’s beguilingly atmospheric and addictive Rome series, Dante’s Numbers, David has shrewdly agreed to an experiment to give away the first of [...]
Moscow Calling
on 15 September, 2008
Posted in Facebook, General, read/write culture
A couple of weeks ago it was my very great pleasure to attend and give a talk at a conference in Moscow. Yes, Moscow. It went a little something like this…
Hold on a sec. How did this come about? Well thanks goes to Brian Green of Editeur, the bibliographic standards body, and the guys at [...]
It is a little bit exciting, I must admit
on 9 September, 2008
Posted in General, Publishing, Reading devices, eBooks
Michael beat me to it last week, but I wanted to reflect further on the Waterstones / Sony ebook launch last week. Anecdotally, Waterstones store staff report a great deal of interest from customers, and the rumour mills (or well-planned leak??) put a *correction: five* figure number on the Sony Readers sold by the morning [...]
It’s Arrived!
on 5 September, 2008
Posted in eBooks
Well, finally, it’s happened. The Sony Reader has been launched in the UK in partnership with Waterstones. Having been out of the country for the past couple of days (more of which to follow) I haven’t yet managed to go through most of the coverage, but it all seems as high profile as can be [...]
authonomy launched
on 3 September, 2008
Posted in General
Authonomy is out of private beta today and open to the world – read more at The Bookseller.
