PUBLISHING PORTAL

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This is the cheapest copy available if any one is interested. Unfortunately this book is not available in the library.

interesting article, quite relevant for the course

Here you can find useful information on publishing - both print and electronic.

From Nik...

In which Jane Austen is mashed up....or Willoughby becomes fusion fiction!

How Apple are refusing to let publisher Time Inc directly sell subscriptions to its iPad digital magazine apps

Interesting considering the odd bold and italic font they are now using for running copy on the website...

Thanks for that link Louise, I love discussions like that especially on that topic.

Rachel sent me this link to put up - very interesting facts!!

You can buy publishing companies' accounts here for a pound.

This is going to be VERY useful for later sessions....thanks, Beth!

iBook sales will cause a rumble in the market before a single sale!

You beat me too it :)

As we were talking about emerging genres the other day, this is about the rise of the web comic. I quite like that!

A must read regarding our futures.

He blogs everyday, which is fantastic. With or without the odd malapropism he really is entertaining and informative.

Granta magazine presents Alex Kotlowitz, discussing his seminal studies of inner-city American life. Alex Kotlowitz is the author of Never a City So Real, The Other Side of the River and the bestselling There Are No Children Here, chosen by the New York Public Library as one of the 150 most important books of the twentieth century and subsequently made into a film starring Oprah Winfrey. For twenty-five years, Kotlowitz has been writing about America from the ground up, exploring the fissures in the urban landscape. He will be in discussion with Granta deputy editor, Ellah Allfrey.

So was this going to be a sort of book itunes?

A great little series of podcasts - really good ideas - useful for assessments!