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By: James Kerry

James Kerry — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:22:52 +0000

Hi there!
My band recently recorded our first proper song!!!

Have a look, we’ve learnt a lot from your blog!
xxx

By: sutherland

sutherland — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:34:03 +0000

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

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By: Zoe Winters

Zoe Winters — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:36:54 +0000

LMAO @ “Be Radiohead”

By: MoJo

MoJo — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:43:12 +0000

Step 1: Be Radiohead…

That’s what I was thinking.

By: Th.

Th. — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:48:23 +0000

The Monty Python story reminds me of the lessons bands learned after watching Radiohead make a mint with In Rainbows:

Step 1: Be Radiohead…..

By: MoJo

MoJo — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:19:57 +0000

Twitter feeds for main characters

Done. And then there's this.

By: MoJo

MoJo — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:07:12 +0000

I’m not a fan of tight specialization, either, because humans are more than the sum of 1 or 2 niche interests.

At any rate, why not ads in ebooks?

I have a tickle of a memory of reading something lately where that was being tried and it wasn’t going over well. Feedbooks, perhaps? I thought I saw it on Teleread, but I can’t find it right now.

By: Eugene

Eugene — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:54:08 +0000

I think Robert Rich (“the reality of 1,000 true fans”) is right about specialization. That’s why it’s a mistake–assuming they want to grow beyond the crumbs left behind by DB and its clones–for “Mormon” publishers to expend a lot of energy trying to establish a foothold in the established “Mormon” market. It’d be much more productive to carve a “Mormon” segment out of much broader markets.

For example, Sujata Massey (mentioned above) writes murder mysteries that take place in Japan. So she sells primarily into the large mystery genre market, but also to people like me who are primarily interested in the Japanese aspects.

At any rate, why not ads in ebooks? High-brow publications like The New Yorker and National Geographic have ads. PBS and NPR have ads (they just don’t call them that). I see an opening for Google to pioneer context-based ads for the literary-minded.