tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post116859713070948693..comments2024-03-28T13:18:28.238+00:00Comments on Grumpy Old Bookman: Friday funMichael Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11338398159818400930noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-1168870383144722612007-01-15T14:13:00.000+00:002007-01-15T14:13:00.000+00:00"The two other members of the panel are Liz Brain,..."The two other members of the panel are Liz Brain, a librarian from Suffolk, and myself. I was very pleased to be asked to act as a judge. Matt Bates, Fiction Buyer at WH Smith Travel, who was one of last year's judges, rightly described the RNA awards lunch as 'the best event in publishing."<BR/><BR/>Congratulations, Grumpy! You deserve it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-1168747175126681512007-01-14T03:59:00.000+00:002007-01-14T03:59:00.000+00:00just find this place by chance. have to say ur con...just find this place by chance. have to say ur content is wonderful and i really like it. do carry on with ur nice work!ZZhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08184157217794445126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-1168719404284489332007-01-13T20:16:00.000+00:002007-01-13T20:16:00.000+00:00Au contraire, it is booksellers who will be elimin...Au contraire, it is booksellers who will be eliminated in the brave new world of books. Unless you want to spend all your time wading through the slop that appears in blogs, you will need people of judgment to winnow the tsunami of glop down for you and polish and present the gems. That is what publishers do. The blogosphere is final proof of just what an essential role the selectors and shapers perform. That role will only become more important. The role that will disappear, along with all that of printers, is that of the people who run little shops full of bound paper. In future readers will be able to download the new masterpieces straight from the publisher, at a fraction of the present cost.bookbumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04355156517381453748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-1168718231106753872007-01-13T19:57:00.000+00:002007-01-13T19:57:00.000+00:00"The only other industry consisting of massively o..."<I>The only other industry consisting of massively over-compensated mediocre performers who have utterly outlasted their utility and raison d'etre and exist only by virtue of an entrenched, self-protective, bullying autocracy that gangs up against threats posed by obviously more efficient methods that would, could, should and will eliminate them -- is Wall Street.</I>"<BR/><BR/><B>ONLY</B> other? What about the teaching profession? Banking? Medicine? Law? Real estate? The security industry? <BR/><BR/>Scanlon should get out more.<BR/><BR/>Jon.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09457784693433856193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-1168696422940781002007-01-13T13:53:00.000+00:002007-01-13T13:53:00.000+00:00Me and my ISP is going 'round & 'round about why I...Me and my ISP is going 'round & 'round about why I can't send email. I expect it to esclate. Thanks. G.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-1168668538913950432007-01-13T06:08:00.000+00:002007-01-13T06:08:00.000+00:00I, too, am becoming addicted to your blog!! Thanks...I, too, am becoming addicted to your blog!! Thanks for the wonderful posts from a new author soaking it all up...Holly Kennedyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02336717023482533615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-1168621615288737832007-01-12T17:06:00.000+00:002007-01-12T17:06:00.000+00:00I enjoy reading you blog.I enjoy reading you blog.Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05026611013627567278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-1168616168003583652007-01-12T15:36:00.000+00:002007-01-12T15:36:00.000+00:00I can never stroll past a discussion of the educat...I can never stroll past a discussion of the educational system without comment--needless to say, it's equally pathetic here in the US. Every child gets to be an "Honor Student" during the year and sheer stupidity seems to be the goal, not just the result.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-1168610350416776522007-01-12T13:59:00.000+00:002007-01-12T13:59:00.000+00:00The Jack Saunders link was an interesting one - an...The Jack Saunders link was an interesting one - and his comment that "people who pay *might* read his stuff" is spot on.<BR/><BR/>A few years ago, at the height of the first dotcom boom, everyone was giving stuff away, building huge mailing lists, and then making money doing consultancy, building web sites - setting themselves up as an "Internet guru" who knew the 'secret' of how to make money on the Web.<BR/><BR/>One article - written by someone who's name now totally escapes me - railed against this stategy as akin to "dot-communism", and counselled against giving stuff away for free. His favourite phrase was that material is well worth the price you pay for it.<BR/><BR/>His slightly distasteful example of this was a (probably apocryphal) story of someone who ran an experiment to see what people would do for a freebie.<BR/><BR/>He advertised a "free box of dead kittens" at the end of his drive, and then interviewed those poeple who turned up to claim their free box. He concluded that some people's brains just to short-circuit when they see "free" and just want to grab it.<BR/><BR/>This is why the top-tier marketing gurus (people like J Abraham, Marlon Sanders, Markus Allen) all charge anything in excess of $25k for a 3-day seminar, or $1,000 per hour face-to-face. What they are saying isn't necessary worth that, but you can bet your backside that after stumping out that sort of cash, you're going to pay close attention to the choicest titbits.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps you should start selling access to your writing for a handsome sum and see how this goes...Mark Thorntonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17099767231368474963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-1168608612191471862007-01-12T13:30:00.000+00:002007-01-12T13:30:00.000+00:00The science in each contribution to the Science Bl...The science in each contribution to the Science Blogging Anthology may be somewhat specialised. But seen as a group, these entries are all over the scientific map. And the ones I've read should be quite accessible and enjoyable to the general reader.<BR/><BR/>I look forward to seeing what a Lulu book is like physically.Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05799391349111994914noreply@blogger.com