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Nominations open for the Author Blog Awards 2010

Anna Lewis | 7:11 pm 10 Mar 10 Comments 1

The Author Blog Awards aim to highlight to readers the great content that you can find in author blogs and microblogs, reward those authors who engage with their readers online, and encourage other authors to do the same. Nominations are now open so please head over to www.authorblogawards.com to nominate your favourite author blog.

Tags: author, award, blogging, blogs, Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow, London Book Fair, London Book Tweet, Neil Gaiman, Seth Godin, tweetup —

Publishing Talk relaunch

Jon Reed | 9:45 pm 29 Jan 10 Comments 4

Just a quick announcement to let you know that there will be a bit of disruption to normal service for a few hours on Sunday. We’re finally ready to re-launch Publishing Talk! As well as a new look, we’re adding new features, more contributors, a better jobs section and a new events section – which [...]

Tags: Advertising, London Book Fair, Online Communities, Twitter —

not blogging but writing

Jon Reed | 8:00 pm 31 Aug 09 Comments 2

I know. I seem only to blog here these days when it’s a bank holiday in the UK… Well, fear not, dear reader – our little summer holiday at Publishing Talk Towers is now over!
Oh, and in case you hadn’t noticed, all the action has been taking place over on Twitter lately. Do follow us [...]

happy social media holidays!

Jon Reed | 6:15 pm 22 Dec 08 Comments Off

Wishing all our readers, contributors, advertisers, job seekers, RSS subscribers, Facebook group members, Twitter followers, del.icio.us people, Flickr fans, YouTubers and MySpacers all the best for the festive season – and a prosperous New Year using lots of social media marketing!
Make sure you unplug from the Internet for a couple of days at least – [...]

new publishing talk

Jon Reed | 9:33 pm 25 Feb 08 Comments 3

Phew – did you make it over here? Well done. This is the first post on the new www.publishingtalk.eu domain – and you’re very welcome. Do you like the way we’ve redecorated? The colour scheme should, at least, be a little easier to read. We’re still testing and tweaking, so please consider this a beta [...]

last post

Jon Reed | 6:46 am 24 Feb 08 Comments Off

Don’t worry, boys and girls – only the last post on the reedmedia.eu domain. From tomorrow, we shall all be over at the publishingtalk.eu domain, with some nice new branding, a few new features, and an announcement of the winner of the iPod from our recent reader survey!
There’s plenty going on, and [...]

publishing talk survey

Jon Reed | 10:27 pm 26 Jan 08 Comments Off

Now, I don’t very often post housekeeping on this blog, but I just wanted to remind you that there are FIVE DAYS LEFT to complete the publishing talk reader survey, if you haven’t done so already.Many thanks to those of you who have already filled it in – there’s some really useful feedback coming in, [...]

welcome to publishing talk

Jon Reed | 4:04 pm 10 Apr 07 Comments Off

Welcome to Publishing Talk. This blog will be a regular source of articles, comment and opinion on trends in publishing – both print and digital. I use a very wide definition of publishing – anyone who produces original, branded content for print, web or audio is a publisher!
Topics will include book, journal and magazine publishing, [...]