Archive for March, 2008
Old books and new tech
Great article highlighted by Book2book this morning from the NYT about couple’s books . Currently on mine and Sharon’s bedside is my H P Lovecraft’s ‘Selected Letters’ and Sharon’s ‘Things I want my Daughters to Know’ by Elizabeth Noble. Not sure what this says about us!
Interestingly one of the things people say about BookRabbit is [...]
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Books of the week
Books I’ve bought this week & why:
1. ‘Holes’ by Louis Sachar – it kept appearing on people’s bookcases on BookRabbit and they said it was good, so I’m now two thirds of the way through it and yes it is good. It’s a ‘teen’ title and it shows but enjoyable nonetheless.
2. ‘Once Upon a Time [...]
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Back into the groove
Over the last couple of weeks – whilst we’ve struggled with getting the site up, the rest of my family were pretty ill, my wife had pneumonia and my daughter was in hospital with a mystery bug (which now looks like it was Scarlet Fever), which all added a certain amount of pressure on the [...]
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A big long list
Now we have the beta up – it’s doing the trick – I want to change loads of stuff. Nothing fundamental, just need to fine tune the bookcase application, it’s too tough to use, make the social networking more focused on the interact page, make bookcases more obvious, add tree structure to classification etc etc [...]
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Trade launch
The trade launch was today at The Music Room and seemed to go without a hitch, no one tripped over anything and Will’s precariously balanced laptop didn’t hurtle to the ground, the presentation worked and everyone there seemed receptive. Bit scary to know our kitten is now out there in the publishing world, hopefully it [...]
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What a week
Unbelievable week. Absolutely tons of development done and the site has moved from nothing to something (although still quite a bit to do). Acceptances for the event have gone from a few to capacity and people asking for extra invites. Today Will and I have been up to London to meet with Publishing News and [...]
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Progress
Despite what seems like our own (somewhat scaled down) four horsemen attempting to scupper development; illness, storms, paternity leave and poor car parking (the 21st Century scourge of any office) there has been some great progress over the weekend. Which is great as we’re only seven working days away from the launch – and we [...]
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Jangling nerves
We’re on to single digit number of days before we launch and at the moment its rather like two teams with one Lego set, but something big – like erm the Death Star one, not one of those six piece cars.
Redberry are doing a sterling job – it’s just that stage when we’re counting down [...]
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Yes okay it’s about 1000% smaller – but still, it’s not the size that counts. Our distribution manager Sid has done a fantastic job of getting us ready for handling orders, he used to work at GAME with me and is used to processing quite a few orders every day!
Basically this is below the office [...]
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The office
In the last few weeks our surrounding space has evolved quite rapidly – and as my short term memory isn’t great I thought it might be good to get some of it recorded here.
When I first arrived on September 10th there was pretty much nothing here at all. The building was, at some point [...]
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