Personanondata: Update on Harpercollins' Authonomy.com

Friday, October 26, 2007

Update on Harpercollins' Authonomy.com

A few weeks ago I had a post on the new authors site being launched by Harpercollins UK. Victoria Barnsley the HC UK CEO was on BBC Radio 4 talking about it. Here is the link. Her piece is about half way through the program. Meet the Author is also profiled.

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...: In this article on the bookseller magazine, it says that there is going to be a league system. I think this may not just be an online slushpile, but really more about the wisdom of crowds for books.

http://www.thebookseller.com/in-depth/feature/47161-the-slush-pile-goes-online.html

Martin.; 4:45 PM
Anonymous said...: The only online slush pile that actually promises to listen to 'the wisdom of crowds' is www.slushpilereader.com; 8:31 PM
Anonymous said...: I prefer TheNextBigWriter.com. It's not a slushpile, just a good place to get helpful feedback from fellow authors and readers. I don't want to compete with other authors, I want to learn from them.; 4:49 PM
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