Bookship was very fortunate to be selected by The Bookseller as one of six candidates for BookTech Company of the Year. Super exciting; great validation; great reason to go to London :). As part of the event, each candidate gets 5 …
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Whoa. Shortlisted for BookTech Company of the Year!
Wow. The Bookseller has shortlisted us for BookTech Company of the Year! Kinda surprising actually! Very excited. We’ll be competing in the finals at the FutureBook conference in London on December 1. Can’t wait! https://www.thebookseller.com/news/prh-uk-leads-futurebook-awards-pack-653231
William Gibson, Startups and Verbs
So, I’m reading Distrust That Particular Flavor by William Gibson. In case you’ve been hiding under a rock for the last 20 years, Gibson is novelist who famously spawned the Cyberpunk movement and coined the term “cyberspace” in Neuromancer, 30 …
Being in the water
I remember many years ago learning to surf in Hawaii with my daughter. (Well, she learned; me, not so much). We got some instructions on the beach, then, into the water we go. Our instructor pushed us into the waves, …
The breakdown of the subscription model for books.
Is this the beginning of the end for subscription ebooks services? Oyster and Scribd have blazed a new trail in the books world by offering an “all you can eat” / “all you can read” pricing. Pay a flat fee …
Do Good by Reading Well
There’s nothing better than relaxing on the beach with a great book. Unless…what if you could Do Good at the same time as you were loving that book on the beach? We’ve got good news for you. You can. We …