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The Machine is Us/ing us

April 11, 2010 · 1 comment

This video is now three years old and has been viewed more than 10 million times, yet it still remains one of the best videos about the web (and hence also about publishing, among other things) that I’ve ever seen:

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Nick Harkaway’s epistle to the publishers

July 10, 2009

Nick Harkaway has one of the most attractive author websites I’ve ever seen. It is so pretty (and clever) it momentarily distracted me from the awesome post he has written calling on publishers to get their act together on eBooks. It strikes me that from an industry point of view, you can’t just throw books-as-files at [...]

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Hugh McGuire’s Ode to Time, Love & Books

June 24, 2009

The ever-lovely Hugh McGuire of BookOven, and founder of LibriVox, has posted a video of his presentation at the BookNetCanada Tech Forum. Time, Love & Books is a beautiful essay that explores the following key ideas: media companies are in the time-acquisition business. Publishers need to find ways to get readers to give their time, [...]

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If you want me to buy your books, make it easy to buy your books!

June 23, 2009

Before I left for a recent vacation, I wanted to top up my ebook library on my iPhone so I’d have some fresh reading material and didn’t have to carry a bunch of books in my luggage. Stanza is a joy to use as an ebook reader on iPhone, but acquiring new titles is not [...]

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Flash forward

January 8, 2009

Jetse de Vries has established a picofiction anthology on Twitter to showcase optimistic science fiction. Submission guidelines here. OUTSHINE, the resulting weekly Twitterzine, to be published here!

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