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Notable: Pinterest for Publishers, Popular iPad Apps, Pricing Bundled Access

Notable: Pinterest for Publishers, Popular iPad Apps, Pricing Bundled Access

Pinterest promotes publishing: The social pin-board service is driving more traffic to publishers’ sites than Google and Twitter. …  Read more.

Tip #6: Entertain yourself (like we did in launching Afar).

10 Tips for Launching Almost Anything

Recently I spoke to a meeting of the Left Coast Writers at the Book Passage in Corte Madera, …  Read more.

Notable Links: October 8, 2009

Publishers are building an online store for magazines: Time Inc., Condé Nast, and Hearst are reported to be …  Read more.

Twitter as Publishing: Tim O’Reilly’s Take

Tim O'Reilly runs a successful and innovative company that covers technology through many platforms: books in print, books …  Read more.

Stanford Writers Workshop for Book Authors and Magazine Journalists

Stanford Writers Workshop for Book Authors and Magazine Journalists

Magazine writers and book authors: Wouldn’t you like to spend two days this summer honing your craft, learning …  Read more.

Stanford Publishing Course: Two Days Left for Discount

Heads up: Wednesday is the last day to get a 10 percent early-bird discount on tuition to this …  Read more.

Surveying the Digital Revolution in Book Publishing

The International Herald Tribune just published a good roundup of the digital developments that are reshaping book publishing.Reporter …  Read more.

Video Explains “Automated Content Creation”

A few weeks ago we wrote about Philip Parker’s computer-assisted creation of 200,000 different books in highly esoteric …  Read more.

Computer-Generated Books, First in a Long Line of “Pub Apps”

Here’s an intriguing (bizarre? scary?) new twist in publishing: books created by computer algorithm. Entrepreneur and management science …  Read more.

S&S Lets the Public Choose the Next Big Book

Simon & Schuster is tapping into the wisdom of the crowd in an attempt to identify book ideas …  Read more.