Monthly Archives: July 2006

A short post about “The Long Tail”

July 31, 2006 – 3:20 pm

In a recent article for Publisher’s Weekly, Wired Magazine editor-in-chief and author of the new bestseller The Long Tail Chris Anderson writes: “Another transformative technology is print-on-demand. The costs of obtaining the rights and reformatting books to make them available are still too high for many older niche titles, but the technology is at the [...]

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Itsy bitsy teeny weeny

July 31, 2006 – 3:02 pm

Nope. We’re not blogging about bikinis, but bookinis. As CBS Sunday Morning anchor Charles Osgood explains in his fascinating report on teeny tomes: “the world of miniature books — miniscule copies of actual publications, some as tiny as a quarter of an inch — is not a small one.” Osgood goes on to quote several [...]

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BlogHer ’06 Recap

July 31, 2006 – 12:59 pm

Attending BlogHer this past weekend was a first for me on so many levels. After years of working in print and online media, and attending conferences as such, I attended BlogHer as a sponsor. And a proud sponsor at that. We gave away our “Blog to Book” Blurb book and met a lot of very [...]

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We’ll see you at BlogHer ’06!

July 27, 2006 – 4:47 pm

Blurb is a proud sponsor of the second annual BlogHer Conference in San Jose, CA on July 28 and 29. In fact, we’re sponsoring Friday’s session “So You Have This Crazy Idea:” You want to start a community-based blog site, but aren’t sure where to start. Melanie Morgan, Nancy White, Susannah Gardner & Lauren Gelman [...]

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