Seth Godin at TOC on creative book-publishing
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009Some food for thought for the publishing industry outside the standard paradigms - must see!
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Sony’s flawed Reader launch in Germany
Saturday, February 28th, 2009On the backdrop of Sony’s e-reader launch in Germany on March 11th I was asked to review it for rbb-TV yesterday. For all non-German readers of this post: Amazon’s Kindle is not yet available in Germany and Amazon is really secretive about the reasons and when it finally plans to launch. Rumour has it that [...]
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2.8 million trees cut down for books that nobody reads
Saturday, June 21st, 2008Aside from spotting talented new authors publishers have the problem of projecting the sales of the books they publish to plan the print-runs accordingly. Due to the lack of reliable predictions the opportunity costs of running out of books because they’re sold out are usually higher then printing more books and pulping the unsold copies [...]
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Literary agents and publishers: Literature Nobel prize winners need not apply
Friday, June 20th, 2008What are the odds for publishers and agents to spot genuine literary talent? Well, if you’re lucky enough to be a literature Nobel prize winner like V S Naipaul they are fairly slim. If not, well… slimmer?
The Sunday Times submitted two Booker prize-winning novels as works by aspiring authors to 20 publishers and literary [...]
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How to get published as an author
Thursday, June 19th, 2008Now that we have switched our blog from the previous one to its new location, I wanted to start things off with this great clip - thanks to Christian over at Transatlantik-Blog for passing it on. What authors have to go through to get published…
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