April 2007
140 posts
bk2: And that’s it for the London Book Fair 2007. Check out www.booktwo.org for follow ups, and more booktech news. Bye. (via Twitter / bk2)
bk2: Done a deal for Greek rights to a book via a MySpace contact! Now that’s booktwo. (via Twitter / bk2)
bk2: Last few meetings, and trying to nick a few interesting books to take home. Publishers are tight. (via Twitter / bk2)
bk2: Check out the IPDA, India’s equivalent of the IPG. (via Twitter / bk2)
bk2: S Anand, of India’s Navayana Publishing wins International Young Publisher of the Year. Richly deserved. (via Twitter / bk2)
bk2: Over to the British Council’s International Young Publisher me the Year awards ceremony. (via Twitter / bk2)
bk2: Cause for celebration: Duckworth are bringing back Heath Robinson. Google him now. (via Twitter / bk2)
bk2: I still find it funny when someone tells me they publish Juvenile literature. (via Twitter / bk2)
bk2: Noone does mental like old German publishing ladies do mental. Hello rat-tails, capes, and platform DMs. (via Twitter / bk2)
bk2: You can tell the fair is nearly over when people start smoking at their booths. It’s like the night bus. (via Twitter / bk2)
bk2: Cool, in a kind of “hey, if I was a multimillionaire, I’d do stupid stuff like this” kind of way. (via Twitter / bk2)
bk2: Just stood next to Margaret Atwood and had a go on her LongPen (www.longpen.com) (via Twitter / bk2)
bk2: Why do you always find the nice restaurant on the last day? Spanish publishers have a tapas bar upstairs… (via Twitter / bk2)
bk2: Going to check out some of my favourite small publishers including Dedalus and Old Street. (via Twitter / bk2)
bk2: Very quiet today - a lot have people have gone home already. (via Twitter / bk2)
bk2: Off to first meeting with Soft Skull’s Richard Nash, Lord and Saviour of US Indie publishing. (via Twitter / bk2)
bk2: Still all quiet on the deals front. Heard about some more sales for White Tiger last night, otherwise little to report. (via Twitter / bk2)
bk2: Morning LBF watchers. It’s a beautiful day in London, it’s day 3 of the fair, and I have a cracking hangover. (via Twitter / bk2)
bk2: So that’s it from day two at the LBF. Thanks for reading, I’m off to dinner and then the Canongate party. Come back tomorrow for more… (via Twitter / bk2)
bk2: Independent Publishing Group (www.ipg.uk.org) drinks @ IPG stand shortly… (via Twitter / bk2)
bk2: The booze is starting to arrive for the end-of-day drinks at peoples’ stands… (via Twitter / bk2)
bk2: A novel called ‘White Tiger’ from India and offered by William Morrow is creating the only buzz of the fair - but not much. (via Twitter / bk2)
bk2: That link should be www.lazygramophone.com - Ta, Jeremy (via Twitter / bk2)
bk2: Just met Guy Jackson from www.lazygrammophone.com - very cool, check them out. (via Twitter / bk2)
bk2: I haven’t been Twittering all my meetings, but I should stress that among the bores and nutters, there are a lot of great people here, passi (via Twitter / bk2)
bk2: Meeting with Gordana Subotic and Dejan Papic of Laguna, Serbia. (via Twitter / bk2)
bk2: Google seminar ends with mad author questions. They’re doing a good PR job and convincing people. But they *are* ebooks. (via Twitter / bk2)
bk2: Springer and CUP both cautious about putting reference works online, but availability builds brand awareness. (via Twitter / bk2)
bk2: 20% of Springer books bought through Google are more than 10 years old - Springer have started POD service based on this. (via Twitter / bk2)
bk2: Springer has 30,000 titles online. 99% have been viewed at least once - and 75% have been bought at least once. (via Twitter / bk2)
bk2: CUP has over 18,000 titles on GBS - 12,000 of which are viewed at least once every month. (via Twitter / bk2)
bk2: Of 1300 Berg authors, only eight were not happy for their work to be available through Google. (via Twitter / bk2)
bk2: Google panelists are from Berg, Cambridge UP, and Springer; Berg up first. (via Twitter / bk2)
bk2: Enough zombies - time for another Google seminar. (via Twitter / bk2)
