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, [...]

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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 [...]

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What does 130,000,000 tonnes of paper look like?

October 25, 2009

Oh wow. I’m currently reading The Gutenberg Revolution: How Printing Changed the Course of History by John Man. Here are some staggering numbers I came across in just the first few pages: Today, books pour off presses at the rate of 10,000 million a year. That’s some 50 million tonnes of paper. Add in 8,000 [...]

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It’s not digital publishing. It’s publishing.

October 24, 2009

Richard Nash has a great round-up of the conversations and opinions about digital that took place all over this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair. …we’re not replacing one static-priced unit (pBook) with another static-priced unit (eBook), but finding that our single massive unidirectional pBook supply chain is now just one component of a tremendously variegated set [...]

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New Institute for the Future of the Book to launch in Australia 2010

August 27, 2009

Today at the Melbourne Writers Festival I had the happy task of announcing that my organisation, Queensland Writers Centre, will launch a new affiliate of The Institute for the Future of the Book in Australia in 2010. if:book Australia will promote new forms of digital publishing and explore ways to boost connections between writers and [...]

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