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Posts Tagged ‘random house’

Maybe the Answer Is The Obvious: Sell it, If You Got It

In Minding the Gate on 1 December 2008 tagged Faber&Faber, random house with no comments

Yesterday I tried to get my head around Random House’s plan to hive off their print-on-demand list. I tried but I failed. I couldn’t figure out, to any satisfaction, what they are up to. Faber & Faber has a similar program. I found the following in the Bookseller after looking around for news of the [...]

Penguin UK, Random House HR, and Digital Corporate DNA

In Exhaling on 26 November 2008 tagged Penguin, random house with no comments

I have been crushing hard on Penguin UK ever since they launched the Penguin Remixed concept back in 2005. They always seemed one step ahead with the blog, the podcast, and a host of cool initiatives, cool ads, and cool products. The most frustrating thing was it was all UK only. You couldn’t listen to [...]

OneDegree Interview With Random House SVP Lisa Charters

In Catching on 26 November 2008 tagged random house with no comments

Lisa Charters, from the Canadian book publisher Random House, talks book trailers with OneDegree’s Alexa Clark.
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Free is Book Publishers’ Frenemy

In Minding the Gate on 4 March 2008 tagged Chris Anderson, Free, harpercollins, Kevin Kelly, publishing, random house, wiley, Wired with no comments

With the latest cover story (issue 16.03) Wired continues to poke the sleeping giant that is the publishing industry. Will publishers wake up? Or will they continue to lazily swat, like a pestering fly, at Wired’s braintrust?
Hello Captain Obvious
In the The Long Tail, Wired’s Chris Anderson stated that profitability in publishing was about backlist. Well [...]