Today’s links of interest:
- Email Marketing, Authors, and Possibilities: An Interview
Sarah Wendell got to the nitty gritty of email newsletters by talking to someone who was, well maybe not blackmailed, but certainly compelled to respond. Really great responses (and not just because we agree!). - Celebrity Memoirists and Their Ghost Writers
Money quote: Sometimes, there’s a desire on the part of publishers and agents not to take attention away from the primary author… Believe primary author would be person who gets advance and name in big type, but doesn’t actually write the book. - Lord Mandelson, The UK Digital Economy Bill Is Deeply Flawed — I Challenge You to a Public Debate
Excellent thinking from Don Tapscott. - The Rick Moody Twitter Saga: What Are We All Doing Here?
Excellent wrap-up of the Electric Literature experiment in tweeting (and co-tweeting) a short story. Who was the audience? - Time Inc’s “Manhattan Project” Is A Tablet Magazine
Which, you know, is sorta what we expected. And it’s not a bad start. - NYT To Cut 100 Newsroom Posts; More Trimming Expected To Hit Op-Ed, Business Side
This is not good. - Book Piracy Is on the Decline
As long as you don’t factor some key aspects into then numbers! A funny/sad look at how alarmist numbers are obscuring real conversation. - Some half-formed thoughts on one future for bookselling
A response to Clay Shirky’s bookselling piece. Consider the number of books sold by Boing Boing every year. - Publishing Will Never Be The Same, Long Live Publishing!
Guesting at Lauren Dane’s site, I offer thoughts on publishing, especially as they relate to authors. - Blogs can boost literacy says NLT
Though you couldn’t tell from some of the stuff we post here g — our kingdom for an editor! - Perseus Adds BN and Shortcovers to Constellation Program
Nice. - Introducing ABE, the Advent Book Elf «
This is fun! - A Book Report From Sara Nelson, Books Director, O, The Oprah Magazine
Podcast and transcript of Sara Nelson’s interview from the PubWest conference. - Better not go on vacation or Adobe DRM will get you!
We’ll be linking to a follow-up story as well, but this is the embodiment of the biggest problem with DRM that comes between people and legal purchases. It becomes the consumer’s problem when the service provider chosen by the publisher chooses to make a change. Not cool. - Adobe DRM confusing users? It looks like it
Follow-up to piece we linked to previously. Yes, you can lose access to your books, that’s the bottom line. Again, not cool.
