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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 publishin
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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 ......
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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My Glamorous Publishing Life
I’ll keep this short. The inspiration for this post comes from yet another a recent NYT article on the demise of Publishing (go ahead and read it - I’ll wait.) When I read the comments ......
Thinking About Borders No-Returns Deal with HarperStudio
It was widely reported this week that Borders has agreed to accept books from HarperStudio as non-returnable. For those who don’t know, books sold to almost every bookseller can generally be returned to the Publisher ......
Buy a Book For Christmas
I only recently discovered the cleverly written publishing blog of the mysterious “Moonrat“, an anonymous editor at an unrevealed publishing house. In a recent post, Moonrat (ok, so I feel silly typing that) discusses what went ......
Barack Obama and the Permanence of Paper
Business Week’s David Kiley says “Obama is great for newspapers” and describes his search for a newspaper this morning, only to find there were none available at the many locations he looked. Mr. Kiley wraps his ......
