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Chris Webb on Publishing, Media and Technology
http://ckwebb.com
ckwebb.com is the blog of Chris Webb, Associate Publisher for Computing and Technology at John Wiley & Sons EMEA (UK). Here you will find information on the book business, advice for authors, tips for writers and insider information on the publishing industry. In addition, you will find his thoughts on the changing world of publishing and the impact of the Internet, and disruptive technologies such as social applications on the more traditional approaches to print and online publishing.
Recent Posts
Fun, Free Online Christmas Activities with Santa
Note: I originally wrote this for Dadomatic As Christmas draws near, I thought I’d share some fun online sites you might like to share with your children this holiday season. Of course a quick Google search will yield you thousands of results, but ...
Social Media Tools For Publishing Professionals
Today I had the opportunity to give a crash course in social media to a group of publishing colleagues at Wiley’s European headquarters. The talk was only an hour, so we covered a lot of ......
Interesting Twitter Strategy from Chelsea Green Publishers
I witnessed an interesting use of Twitter today by Chelsea Green Publishers who promoted their website and books with a very simple contest. The premise was very straight forward - tweet about a book from their ......
Digital Books: Digital FAIL?
This week I had a lively conversation about Amazon’s recent Kindle mobile phone announcement with Wiley Author Reto Meier. I invited Reto to share his thoughts with readers on why he believes digital books have ......
Pulling the Sword from the Stone: Amazon’s Kindle Books to be Available on Mobile Phones
Did you feel that? That was a tremor in the publishing world. There have been many of them over the past several months, but yesterday’s announcement from Amazon could be especially game changing in my ......
From Around the ‘Net on 01/08/09
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