Twitter Updates for 2009-08-05
August 4th, 2009 | 
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- 10 Years Ago, an Omen No One Saw http://bit.ly/pIoGl (The NYT on the rise and fall of the magazine industry) #
- RT @ForeWordmag Google & the Future for Bookstores and Libraries new blog from Gene Schwartz http://bit.ly/ibqLY #
To my way of thinking, people in the industry have nothing to fear from Google—not that if Google wanted to it couldn’t upset the apple cart for awhile.
- RT @DorleeM: Publishing Economics 101 @BookBuzzr http://bit.ly/QxnQS Breakdown of costs when selling a book #
- Obsessed interviews book publishing icons Jane Friedman and Larry Kirshbaum http://bit.ly/pkVcJ #
- I love that Larry Kirshbaum thought that publishing the Twilight series was a horrid idea http://bit.ly/pkVcJ #
- Scholastic releases school book club bestsellers. http://bit.ly/G0BA2 Not as commercial as the catalog critics suggest. #
“This list shows an exciting diversity in the books kids are choosing to read for fun today,” said Judy Newman, President of Scholastic Book Clubs. “We were amazed to see that kids are excited about everything from classics like ‘The Outsiders’ and ‘Corduroy,’ to future classics like ‘Twilight’ and ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid,’ and still have time for fun titles like ‘Ripley’s Believe It or Not!’ and ‘Pok?©mon.’”
- RT @CoyPaper: The Washington Post reported that its magazine publishing revenue decreased in the second quarter by 27% #
- RT @themediaisdying: Google has quadrupled it’s news archive : http://bit.ly/1njiqn #
- Tens of thousands of 11-year-olds leave primary school practically illiterate http://bit.ly/E2gZo #
- Peter Blood, bachelor of medicine and several other things besides, gets his own graphic novel http://bit.ly/BSKny #
- RT @mumbrella: A lesson for PRs: do not promise an editor an exclusive that you can’t guarantee http://bit.ly/40pbJ #
- Thank you @audible_com for the free copy of Joseph Finder’s “Paranoia” http://bit.ly/VpKXI #
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