Showing posts with label Independent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Independent. Show all posts
Monday, March 05, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 10): The Monkees, PayPal, Self-Publishing, Jeff Bezos + More

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I was never that aware of The Monkees but the passing of Davy Jones generated a lot of reminiscing.  Mrs. PND recalls the time her Dad broug...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 8): Movies from Books, Digital Music, Coriolanus, Larsson & Journalists + More

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From the Independent "Hollywood ate my Novel" Novelists reveal what it’s like to have their book turned into a movie Literary...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Pippa Middleton's Sudden Fame Syndrome:

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Pippa Middleton gets £400,000 for a party planning book.  Amusing assessment from the Independent : The party tome is a classic Sudden Fam...
Monday, November 07, 2011

Erotic German Publisher is Catholic!

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For any Frankfurt book fair attendee the idea that the average German trade publisher would publish some erotic fiction would be met with a ...
Sunday, June 27, 2010

MediaWeek (Vol 3, No 26): OCLC, AAUP Conference, Intellectual Property Enforcement, Harold Robbins, Book Bloggers

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OCLC announced that a revised record use policy will be going into effect on August 1st ( LJ ): After more than a year and a half of prop...
Sunday, June 13, 2010

MediaWeek (Vol 3, No 24): Freak Show, Penguin's Canadian Problem, Textbook Reinvention

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On the road with an economist. Steven Dubner and the Superfreakonomics show ( Observer ): It's bizarre to think that the crash might...
Sunday, October 04, 2009

MediaWeek (Vol 2, No 40): Curating, Larsson, BooksEtc, Disney, Magazines

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Interesting article in Sunday's NYTimes about curating content in the retail sense. Some relevance to book retailing and publishing alt...