Downloading Optimism: Pessimism virus detected

November 19, 2009 · 1 comment

Downloading Optimism - Lucy Knisleyvia BoingBoing – comic artist Lucy Knisley has posted a charming and eloquent defence of digital reading, in the form of a comic, on her blog ArtJournal. I adored this, but not quite as much as her 1980s re-imagining of Harry Potter, complete with David Bowie and a Neverending Story luck dragon.

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Paju Bookcity

November 18, 2009

I’m in South Korea for the Paju Bookcity Forum to speak about digital business models for publishing.
Paju Bookcity is a new industrial precinct built entirely around books and publishing. That, of course, is a dry factual statement. Instead I should have hooked you into my tale by saying that Paju Bookcity is a magical kingdom, [...]

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Copyright restrictions on parallel imports to stay

November 11, 2009

Well, the battle is over (for now). The Australian Government has today announced that current copyright legislation forbidding parallel importation of books will remain unchanged.
The Australian and Bookseller+Publisher have reported the news and the full statement from Dr Craig Emerson, Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs, can be found here.
I like Sophie Cunningham’s take-home message [...]

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Better than an iTunes for poetry

November 9, 2009

I know my mate Graham Nunn over at Another Lost Shark will be sitting up in his chair when he sees this piece come through his RSS feed.  Thanks also to Chris Meade at if:book London for the heads up.
PoetrySpeaks.com is a way-impressive new online community for poets and poetry. In his plug on bookfutures, Chris [...]

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What do authors need?

October 28, 2009

Mark Coker, founder and CEO of dynamic e-book publishing company Smashwords, is asking “do authors still need publishers?”
In his article for The Huffington Post, Mark argues that an author with the fanbase and platform of Stephen King, or J.K. Rowling or  Dan Brown, could get a much better return from the marketplace by self-publishing. Certainly this is [...]

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