OK – so that was all a bit wierd

18Oct08

Right let us draw a line under all that odd BookRabbit, ArgentVive stuff and move on. I’ve deleted Charles Denton’s non existent blog (was all keen and nothing happened, funny that) from the blogroll & try not to look at the suspended shares on AIM (Alternative Investment Market : ARGV is the code). I may [...]

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Counting down the days

21Apr08

We’re a mere couple of weeks (well maybe three) from the public launch now – and a lot needs finishing/tidying and thankfully not too much needs actually fixing. The list is quite wide ranging and includes completely new home & interact pages – more along the lines of Facebook/Plaxo with lots of updates for friends [...]

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Stories of books and shopping

13Apr08

One of our 8views for Retail8 that we developed as a team was that of Stories
“Your experience of shopping with one of our brands should be so good that you cannot help but tell other people what happened.”
So I was pleased to see that the, ever excellent, Trendwatching briefing for this month also talks of [...]

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Books and the wider audience

12Apr08

Two things this week have underlined what sometimes appear to be difficult opposing forces within the book trade. The first was evident when I attended (thank you Bowker) the British Book Awards on Wednesday night. The red carpet was there, it’s televised on Channel 4 on Sunday, and it was arranged very much around that [...]

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