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The rights and responsibilities of authors

January 3, 2009

Having taken a day to think about some of Martyn Daniels’ predictions for publishing in 2009, I want to explore some of his specific comments for authors.   1. Whose job is online marketing? Authors should come to the front with podcasts, videos, blogs and web sites to promote them and their titles and the [...]

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Alphabet Soup 02-Jan-09

January 3, 2009

A round up of some interesting links that escaped my attention in the feeds the last few weeks…   2009 – the year the physical bookstore lays down and dies? Over at Futurismic, Paul Raven looks at a NYT article sounding the death knell of bricks and mortar bookstores. Seriously, NYT, you really think booksellers [...]

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New Year’s Resolution… Blog!

January 2, 2009

Electric Alphabet has been silent the last two months, and it’s time to fix that. So, one of my new year’s resolutions is to blog every day. I thought I would have blogged more over the Christmas break, but there’s something about summer that switches off my critical brain. I get sleepy and lazy, like [...]

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Link Love 02-06-08

June 3, 2008

I am in Darwin for the annual get-together of state writers centre directors. Here it is warm and humid (which means my hair is annoyingly frizzy) and the ocean is blue. Not wussy sea green-blue, but Gold Coast motel artwork aquamarine blue. Since I’m spending more time looking around than reading feeds, I’m trusting youse [...]

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Comments de-spammed

May 23, 2008

Gary Kemble alerted me to the fact that a few comments haven’t been coming through. I’ve just checked and there were a bunch trapped in the spam-catcher which I have now released. Apologies if you’ve commented in the last week or so and your message didn’t come through! Thanks Gary.

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