Thursday 17th May 2012


 

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It’s pay what you can, not what you want

To my mind, it’s pay what you can, not pay what you want. Change the verb and you change the game. I know the phrase sounds very Soviet, and, significantly, it turns out it’s much harder than you’d think to evaluate for yourself what you can pay.

Books to have and to hold

At the moment I’m working on a website – Organic Peas And Orderly Queues – all about the agonies and more »

Fly Bernard, fly!

These are the moments in self-publishing when you long for an agent, pine for a publicist, or anyone for that matter who will sing your praises without so much as a smirk.

Poetic attempts to map the world

White Peak / Dark Peak: an audio-visual word-map of the Peak District National Park

26:50 – writing for freedom

International PEN campaigns for the right to write and for freedom of expression. Once a year they remember the plight of the persecuted at Free the Word! in London.

Creating brands out of literature

Creation of inhouse brands is going to become something that publishers look to as a means of generating greater revenues and controlling valuable ancillary rights.

Bringing poetry into a centralised space

Our website gave us a foundation on which to introduce ourselves into the community – a place that we could send people. It established a dialogue between between offline and online spaces, allowing us to interact with the community…

A celebration of eavesdropping

At the Birmingham Spring Thing festival, Jo Bell and the novelist David Calcutt unveil their brainchild Bugged – a massive and memorable creative happening.

Marvel at the opportunity

The iPad is very sleek and so is Marvel’s app. There’s a great opportunity here to reinvigorate the comic format.

Significantly richer than you

Significant Objects is the brainchild of journalist Rob Walker, whose Consumed column appears in the New York Times Magazine, and Josh Glenn, whose book Taking Things Seriously looks at how we invest ordinary objects with extraordinary significance.

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