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A thought-provoking start to the week, plus today’s hottest news from Donna.
This week on Litopia After Dark we examine the role of the world’s mega-publishing houses and try to predict their future. We contemplate the often-tenuous position of being a Big Publishing Boss. If the price of signing with Big Publishing is being contracted to grind out a book every year - could you cope? And why - when indie film and music publishers are so widely respected - does the indie publishing scene get such little media attention and respect?
On the panel this week are Donna Ballman, Dave Bartram and Editorial Director of Behler Publications, Lynn Price. The Ustream chatroom (7.30pm GMT) was small and perfectly formed - join us next week as we go global.
A journalist who tried to block police attempts to access his notes on a book on terrorism has been told he should never have brought the case…. and today’s hottest news from Donna.
More about Amazon… plus today’s hottest news from Donna.
Today’s hottest news from Donna - including a court victory for a vanity-press victim.
We chat to volunteers from the Federation Of Children’s Book Groups - plus all today’s news from Donna.
All the news that ’s worth a peruse…
Does Country Music reflect the history of the people? On Litopia After Dark this week we discuss a new book by Dana Jennings called Sing Me Back Home. Also, that buzzword of the ’90s - multitasking. New research suggests that it accomplishes very little. And how Google is making us all stupid. After all that we take a short nap before recommending our favourite links of the week.
On the panel this week are Dave Bartram, Donna Ballman and John Quirke. And in the Ustream chatroom 7.30pm GMT we sang “Drop kick me Jesus through the Goal Posts of Life”… in harmony. Next week we’re choosing a better song - join us.
One of the most interesting and insightful people currently working in the new media area, Rolfe has pretty much done it all - as an entrepreneur in media and technology, as a management consultant and as an expert in venture capital and private equity. This fall, he takes up a professorial position at INSEAD where he will teach the New Business Ventures course. Respected by publishers, he has some terrific advice to share with us about the way our business is headed - and specifically, what authors can do right now to profit from the web.
A new and exciting forum opens today in the Colony - ASK THE EDITOR. We talk to Lynn Price, editorial director for Behler Publications, about her work and the new forum.
The massive environmental destruction wrought by paper industry isn’t the only bad thing about book production that we cover on tonight’s LITOPIA AFTER DARK. Our special guest on this week’s show is Raz Godelnik, CEO of Eco-Libris. His company believes in providing people with easy and affordable ways to plant a tree for each book they read. So what can we, as writers, do to influence change? The panel gets stuck in – and you can, too, if you join us live next week in the UStream chat room!
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After many arduous days struggling up the Rio Negro, searching for some contact (any kind – he’s not fussy) with the Tribe of Amazon, our worthy and once optimistic protagonist has been reduced to despair. Will he ever succeed in talking to these potent but diffident trades-creatures? Do they even exist? Just when it seems that all is lost – why, what that! I do believe it’s a cardboard box… |
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Litopia After Dark is delighted to announce that our very special guest this Friday will be Raz Godelnik, co-founder and CEO of Eco-Libris. Eco-Libris believe in providing people with easy and affordable ways to take responsibility for their actions and go green by planting one tree for each book they read. They strive to make reading much more sustainable and have a goal of balancing out half a million books by the end of 2008.
About 20 million trees are being cut down every year to produce paper for books sold in the U.S. alone. Eco-Libris works in partnership with non-profit organizations in developing countries. Raz lives in Delaware and besides developing, writing on and breathing green business, he likes playing soccer and watching Woody Allen films and old episodes of Seinfeld.
So join us live in the chatroom on Friday - or if you can’t manage that, listen to the ‘cast in your usual way!
We get a reply - of sorts - from Amazon… the Colony’s new look has arrived and so has a new forum called ASK THE EDITOR - and the BBC tells its listeners… not to
