In last month’s Wired magazine, Frank Rose touted the first web series to get major funding from Hollywood. $2 million dollars later the site for Gemini Divsion launched today.
My question — why are they blocking Canadian views? Who is going to buy Canadian rights and mirror the friggin thing. Ridiculous.
When I saw Amazon.ca’s usual weekly full page ad in the Globe and Mail buried in the Arts section on Saturday it took me a second to realize the entire book section was missing. It turns out news of the book section’s hiatus passed me by (thanks RJO). The experience of readers chronicled at Book [...]
Back in June Twitter’s fail whale was getting more lift than a Beverly Hills house wife. At the same time the Twitter spammers were coming out of the wood work. I called for a follow cap of 5000 people — a similar number to the Facebook friends one user could have at the time. I [...]
A Reuters story from August 3 popped up in the paper today. Apparently author Alain de Botton is charging $400 per head for the general public to attend ‘classes’ on topics he has authored books about. The arrangement is part of a new effort by artists and writers in Bloomsbury called the ‘School of Life‘.
If [...]
Brian O’Leary, founder of Magellan Media Consulting, gave a talk at this year’s Book Expo America for book publishers looking to acquire internet companies. He made a comment that particularly rang true for me about keeping an open mind regarding the accounting when looking at a such a company. I once had a very difficult [...]
‘Who is watching the watchmen?’ is seemingly a more important question now than when Alan Moore and David Gibbons did The Watchmen graphic novel back in the late 80s. A movie is on the way. The book is stacked at Chapters. Now iTunes is featuring a ‘motion comic’ of the story for download. It is [...]
I heard the other day that part-time iPhone developers are making a not insignificant killing as companies rush to get on the iPhone bandwagon.
There has been talk in publishing circles about publisher’s responsibilities re: iPhone development.
It is nice to see Lonely Planet, Frommers, and HarperCollins rise to the occasion and fill the pockets of the [...]
For those RSS subscribers out there, Indigo Books has responded to my post about their green policy. Bottom line: they are doing more behind the scenes then they are advertising.
I just read a post over at the Bookseller about Uk publisher’s plans to enter the ebook market. The plan seems to be to pursue parity pricing with existing print editions. Here is a representative response…
Genevieve Shore, global digital director at Penguin, also argued for parity pricing because of the costs involved with producing e-books. [...]
I was in a downtown Indigo Books location tonight and was confronted with a standee and pamphlets announcing their new green policy. I thought ‘bravo’. The standee pointed to www.chapters.indigo.ca/paper for more info. Looking over what is written on the site, it appears to be far less ambitious than I hoped. Where is a statement [...]