Jon’s Twitter Updates for 2009-01-31


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Jon’s Twitter Updates for 2009-01-30


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Jon’s Twitter Updates for 2009-01-29


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Friday Project to Offer “Profit-Share” Contracts


HarperCollins UK’s Fiday Project is offering authors of certain electronic-only books “profit share” contracts “in which profits from each book are split equally between publisher and author”.    Keep an eye on this — it could foretell a future in which, shorn of printing and distrbution costs, publishers will be compelled to offer far better contracts to compete with entrepreneurial ePublishers.

Here’s the link to the story:  http://www.bookbrunch.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=977&Itemid=97

Also, here’s an interesting piece about the potential for digital children’s books:  http://www.columbian.com/article/20090105/LIVING/701059994

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Jon’s Twitter Updates for 2009-01-28


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Jon’s Twitter Updates for 2009-01-27


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Jon’s Twitter Updates for 2009-01-25


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Live Video Feed of Newbery/Caldecott Announcement


Live from Denver, it’s the announcement of this year’s Newbery and Caldecott recipients.

The action begins at 7:45 AM Mountain Time on Monday morning.  Here’s where to take it all in:

http://ala.unikron.com/

UPDATE:  If that feed is full, you can get the results instantly by following this Twitter page:

http://twitter.com/ALAyma

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Jon’s Twitter Updates for 2009-01-24


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Jon’s Twitter Updates for 2009-01-23


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