Category: Books

  • 8 tips on giving away books for free

    Wired Magazine Editor Chris Anderson‘s new book Free is about the free economy, and he’s walking the talk by making multiple versions of the book – in print, online, and audio – available for free. I’ve got a copy of…

  • FIR Cut: Chris Anderson makes multiple versions of "Free" available for free

    Overflow from FIR #466 on July 16, 2009: Wired Magazine Editor Chris Anderson‘s new book is about the free economy, and he’s walking the talk by making multiple versions of the book – in print, online (via Scrib’d) and audio…

  • FIR Interview: Silvia Cambie and Yang-May Ooi

    Globalization and the rise of emerging-market multinationals are having a profound impact on the work of PR practitioners and corporate communicators. And, new channels of global communication are being opened up by social media, bringing different communities across the world…

  • Ignore everybody and rock on

    About a month ago, a package arrived from the US via FedEx containing a slim paperback that was the advance uncorrected proofs of Ignore Everybody, the first mainstream-published book from cartoonist and entrepreneur Hugh Macleod, author of the blog Gapingvoid.…

  • Collaborative book reviews on Twitter

    Hmm, wonder if this idea would work with the kind of books I’m currently reading, and have queued up to read, for doing reviews. IT Pro reports that TV and radio celeb Jonathan Ross has launched WossyBookClub on Twitter where…