BBC Have Your Say is moving out into the wilds of the web and joining the conversation where it happens – link [via Peter Brantley]
This is surely a significant move that publishers should watch with interest. The BBC is testing the waters of not hosting the discussion.
One of the answers to MBQ (My Big Question: [...]
go anywhere, be everywhere?
Posted on 15 October, 2008
Posted in Publishing, read/write culture
lifting the veil – will you take a peek?
Posted on 3 October, 2008
Posted in General
Perhaps you’ve heard of a book called Cliffhanger by T.J. Middleton? No?
Well, you can read more about it on panmacmillan.com – then come right back!
Cliffhanger is published today, and it’s great fun – I did homage to the spirit of the book by reading it on or near the best coastal cliff I could [...]
the future is a foreign land
Posted on 2 October, 2008
Posted in Publishing, Reading devices
Timo Hannay has shared his personal perspective on the business of publishing now over at his Nature web publishing blog, Nascent – link
It’s almost as hard for a publisher to become a technology company as it is for me to become Japanese. But if we’re in the business of information – and we are – [...]
help the economy
Posted on 2 October, 2008
Posted in Publishing
All this irresponsible talk of recession only makes it more likely. Do your bit for the economy by only reading the news through this web browser, which blacks out unwelcome words.
http://recessionblocker.com
10 ways to gain a lover… of ebooks
Posted on 1 October, 2008
Posted in eBooks
There is a good post of 10 things epublishers should do for readers (the organic kind) by Jane at Dear Author (via Times Emit) – link
These are all good suggestions, although one or two would be a matter of your personal approach (e.g. preferring PayPal, or wanting the ecom site to store your credit card [...]
authonomy launched
Posted on 3 September, 2008
Posted in General
Authonomy is out of private beta today and open to the world – read more at The Bookseller.
inside authonomy
Posted on 21 August, 2008
Posted in General
When HarperCollins launched their slush pile site, Authonomy, in beta, I signed up and received an invitation. I wanted to have the full and genuine authonomy (small ‘a’) experience, so I dug out of my old files the beginnings of a sf novel (login probably required) that I’d been writing at varsity (you know, instead [...]
Red Peter and me
Posted on 6 August, 2008
Posted in General
Do you ever get the feeling that finding a way through all the challenges of digital publishing – past, present and future – is a bit like running a marathon? And that keeping up with the latest developments – identifying them, reacting to them, possibly doing something with them, and then moving on – is [...]
2nd special edition ebook out now
Posted on 29 July, 2008
Posted in General
We have released the second in our special edition ebooks programme: Sid Smith’s China Dreams. More about it on the Picador blog.
notice: change to commenting settings
Posted on 22 July, 2008
Posted in General
We’ve been having a bit of trouble with spam comments making their way through the Akismet spam filter recently, so I just wanted to let you know that for a little while the discussion settings will have to be a bit stricter than we’d like.
Once you’ve had a comment approved, you should be able to [...]
