Boyd Tonkin’s article in the Independent argues that the #wossybookclub is a distraction from what books are all about. Many readers I’m sure agree; Twitter, blogging and all the rest of it might not be everyone’s cup of tea.
However I think there is something to be said for it. Jon Ronson was [...]
Count Me In
on 1 June, 2009 – 4:24 pm
Posted in Publishing, Twitter
A Bookish Experiment
on 14 April, 2009 – 4:18 pm
Posted in Reading devices, eBooks
A while ago you may remember Book Camp, a day of bookish experimentation. On the back of that I’ve been thinking of a bookish experiment and was wondering if it’s been done.
We are seeing a proliferation of reading formats- from grand, Royal hardbacks to reading on the Nintendo DS. Each of these has a different [...]
@rnmorris – a good read
on 27 March, 2009 – 10:03 am
Posted in General
One-time Macmillan New Writing author, Roger Morris, and now hugely successful crime fiction writer, R.N. Morris is twitterizing his novel A Gentle Axe. Reading it in my twitter feed each day is a fantastic experience, and of course one can go back into the archive at twitter.com/rnmorris to read the story from the beginning.
Roger writes [...]
Digital Books Are Already Here
on 3 February, 2009 – 2:04 pm
Posted in Development, General, eBooks, read/write culture
Quite frequently I hear people talking about the future. They will argue and pontificate about when the new digital book, the new digital fiction, the new digital culture will arrive. In the world of digital publishing futurologists abound as we all try and work out what will happen next, even as we are still working [...]
the tweetest thing
on 26 January, 2009 – 10:07 am
Posted in Twitter
Twitter has gone mainstream – we all know this now. Not only did the best thing since Blogger grow by 752% in 2008, and gather geeky celeb users like @stephenfry (60K+ followers) and @wossy but now Gwyneth Paltrow – “new female internet hero” – is reportedly wanting to use Twitter to start a book reading [...]
