Simon & Schuster, through their Touchstone imprint has announced that they will participate in a new online venture Media Predict. On the new site, people become virtual “investors” and buy make-believe shares in burgeoning unsigned authors, bands, films, etc. The thinking is…
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I stumbled upon this somehow. I don’t really know who is behind it. If you click on the “Contact Us” link you’re taken to “Turn Here”, which looks like just a production company, but I could be wrong. I’m interested to see what shows up on this site.
I saw on Salon.com that David Silverman’s book Typo is coming out soon… Amazon says May 21st.
The story traces Silverman’s business venture with setting up, running and loosing a successful typesetting/design/publishing business. Silverman seems like someone who loves the publishing business too and jumped in with both feet.
I’m anxious to get this one in the tbr pile.
Part of the new set-up here is my hopes of adding fresher content. Which, of course, has lead me to research podcasts. There are only a handful that I keep up with, but in all my recent digging around I ran across this local podcast aggregate site and then another blogger calls for a local podacasters meet-up.
I might just have to swing by the old Pita Stop and get the scoop. I think it’d be neat to jump out there and post some interviews with a few of the bazillion authors passing though Birmingham. Maybe an interview with some of you cool book design bloggers too…
