The Pub Call Podcast

This week The Pub Call crew welcomes Kirk Biglione from MediaLoper.com and Andrew Savikas from O’Reilly Media.

Our three topics are:

1. The Sony surge
2. Tools of Change Conference at the Frankfurt Bookfair.
3. The book app economy

Download the mp3 of The Pub Call Episode #16 or download the enhanced iTunes version (m4a).

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Our three topics for the week ending July 28, 2009 were the Romance Writers of America conference, Amazon, and Richard Nash’s blueprint for a new type of publisher.

What we talked about in The Pub Call Episode #15:

• The RWA Conference Recap [booksquare]
• Amazon Buys Zappos [techcrunch]
• Bezos, 1984 and The Kindle [BoingBoing]
• Teens Don’t Care If They Own Digital Files [Guardian]
• Barnes and Noble Launch Ebook store [bn.com] [Booksquare]
• Barnes and Noble Wifi [bn.com]
• Richard Nash on his new venture – Cursor – that aims to create a social publishing community [Publishers Weekly] [RNash.com] [Publishing Perspectives] [Media Bistro]
• Apple and the record Companies want you to buy albums, again. [Financial Times]
• Will Tolkien’s heirs kill off “The Hobbit”? [salon.com]
• When you buy Zappos, what do you buy? [sethgodin]
• The Unofficial Thomas Pynchon Guide to Los Angeles [wired.com]
• Transparency is the new objectivity [everythingismiscellaneous.com]
• The Future is Now: Ann Kingman and Michael Kindness [FollowtheReader]

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