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Digitising the book club
UK-based 'think and do tank' if:book is re-imagining the book group, using the internet to combine an on-screen version of a classic book with an adjacent comments/discussion page.
An IMDB for books?
The Internet Movie Database (or IMDB) revolutionised the way we search for information about films -- could the same model work for books, cross-referencing not only titles, authors and reviews but th...
Friedman uses his readers to 'complete' book
Author Thomas Friedman has announced that he will 'include the best ideas and proposals sent in by readers' in order to write a new concluding chapter to the second edition of his current US bestselli...
PanMac launches Facebook app
Pan Macmillan UK is collaborating with networking site Facebook to attract new customers to its online store with a special promotion on Love Letters of Great Men, itself a spin-off from the Sex ...
Book trailer tops YouTube
The video trailer for Sherrilyn Kenyon's forthcoming book Acheron made it onto YouTube's "most viewed" list last week. 'Only one day after being posted on the site, the video trailer was vie...
Booksellers look to social networking sites
With an estimated 20% of all US book sales now done online, booksellers are increasingly turing to social networking sites to help connect with their customer base.
Social networking for copyright owners
The nonprofit US-based organisation Copyright Alliance has established a social networking site for artists and other creators of intellectual property to interact with each other on issues of copyrig...
'Breaking Dawn' gets big reaction -- for and against
Stephanie Meyer's Breaking Dawn is a bit international hit, but it's also facing an unprecendented fan backlash.
Penguin links with MySpace
Penguin UK has linked with social networking website MySpace to help promote first-time authors, beginning with Joe Dunthorn and his debut novel Submarine.
HC UK unleashes 'Book Army'
HarperCollins UK CEO Victoria Barnsley has offered a 'sneak preview' of a new social networking website to be called 'Book Army'. The site is intended to cover 'every book and every author that's...
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