Archive for December, 2007

publishing talk – the podcast!

Jon Reed | 10:50 pm 23 Dec 07 Comments 0

The end of the year already. Time for some top-10 lists, highs and lows, and a review of 2007, surely? Maybe next week. For now, I’m signing off for a few days, with news of developments at publishing talk next year.
As Facebook Group members will already be aware… publishing talk is evolving into a podcast!
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Jon Reed | 1:51 pm 14 Dec 07 Comments 1

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re-kindle your love of e-books

Jon Reed | 10:29 am 10 Dec 07 Comments 1

The Amazon Kindle has finally launched in the US (we need to wait a bit longer here in the UK), and I want one. See the BuzzFeed round up of blog postings for more detailed reviews.
I’m not convinced that this is yet the killer device to make e-books mainstream, as the iPod did for music [...]

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Jon Reed | 1:50 am 09 Dec 07 Comments 1

No, not a sequel to the graphic novel by Frank Miller. The current membership of the Publishing Talk Facebook Group!
Many thanks to everyone who has joined, discussed, posted and contributed. We are now the second largest publishing group on Facebook after I work in publishing and am underpaid – which is rather telling of our [...]

what is podcasting?

Jon Reed | 5:13 pm 07 Dec 07 Comments 4

I’m still often asked what a podcast is. Frankly, it’s a question I tire of. I may be a social media geek, but really: this stuff is quite mainstream now. It’s one of those things where consumers are ahead of publishers. Many ordinary people are accessing media when, where, and how they want. Some publishers [...]