Check out this humorous piece by Ellis Weiner in the New Yorker. A great lampoon of the publishing industry, it features an editor’s misguided advice on getting your book noticed. “Reddit bites,“ “Google scaffold,” and “FB/MS interlink torrent” anyone?
Oh yeah, and by the way, in this piece, the editor has moved all of [...]
Category Archives: Random Goodness
Marketing Your Book Doesn’t Have to be this Hard
October 20, 2009 – 12:24 pm
Meet Supermarket
October 14, 2009 – 2:15 pm
Blurb recently got our design on at the AIGA Make | Think conference in Memphis. We had a booth, hosted a meet-up, and generally rocked Beale Street all week long. Our people had a great time, and we have a video we’ll post later this week to help bring the experience home.
We met a [...]
Australia Dust Storm Creates Spectacular Imagery
September 29, 2009 – 12:11 pm
Last week a dust storm blanketed eastern Australia, including Sydney, and significantly disrupted the city’s infrastructure while putting health officials on high alert. (It’s unknown how red dust affects book shipping.) The official explanation is “during winter in Australia low pressure storms are generated in the Indian and Southern Oceans, whipping up huge seas and [...]
Unputdownable
September 14, 2009 – 5:00 am
Saatchi & Saatchi advertising agency in Malasia came up with these great ads for Penguin Books. It’s true - a great novel really is “unputdownable!”
(via ads of the world)
Vending Machine of Books!
September 11, 2009 – 5:00 am
The Lending Library is a vending machine of sorts for books. Simply swipe your library card and borrow one of the stocked titles - great for late night book runs!
(via the 26th story)
Stormtroopers good enough to be in a book
September 4, 2009 – 4:20 pm
A little fun to kick off the long weekend (at least in the U.S. it’s a long weekend!).
Ever wonder what the Galactic Empire’s henchmen do for fun? Do they get days off? Do they enjoy hikes? Walks on the beach? Repelling down toilet paper rolls?
The answers to these questions and more can be [...]
