Life as a beta geek

Some further notes from the Booksellers Association conference — same format as yesterday, same caveats.

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I’ve just got back from the Booksellers Association annual conference in Brighton. I promised several people that I would blog my notes from the conference, which follow. Digital publishing was one of the main strands of the conference, and there were some excellent speakers on the programme.
The views expressed below are those of the individual […]

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Last week I gave a presentation at The Bookseller seminar Reaching Readers Online 2008. It was good to see lots of friendly faces, including Peter and James from Apt Studio and Darren Turpin from DTL; and to meet Kate Hyde from Fifth Estate and Sara Lloyd from Macmillan.
For anyone who missed the seminar, or for attendees […]

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I’m going to be speaking at The Bookseller seminar Reaching Readers Online 2008 at the Stock Exchange on 31 January. I’ll be making a presentation on direct to consumer online strategies and the implications for publishers. I’ve noticed that one of my fellow speakers, the extremely innovative Peter Collingridge of Apt Studio, has posted a […]

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From a Little, Brown press release:
David Shelley and George Walkley are to be the new joint heads of Hachette Digital, the rebranded Hachette Audio imprint which was itself a rebranding of Time Warner Audio. Shelley, currently Paperback Publisher of Sphere, will add the role of Digital Publisher to his portfolio. He will direct the publishing […]

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The notion of me contributing to a cookery book might be regarded with a certain amount of mirth by my friends and family — but it’s true: I’m right there in the acknowledgements for the pseudonymous George Harvey Bone’s new book Cooking with Booze*. It’s a marvellous book, accompanied by a best-in-class website created by […]

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