Filed under: BookCamp Toronto, BookCamp Vancouver 2009, Enthusiasms, Events, Industry Change, Social Media | Tags: Advent Book Blog, Booknet Canada, Open Book: Toronto, Pour House, Sociable!, Tech Forum
Advent Book Blog & Open Book Toronto Present: Sociable!
The Advent Book Blog and Open Book Toronto Want You to Get Sociable!
Get offline. Come be social. Then tell everyone on Twitter and Facebook where you are and how much fun you’re having! Twitter hashtag: #soc10
Sean Cranbury and Julie Wilson of The Advent Book Blog and Open Book Toronto cordially invite you to an event for social media geeks, publishing professionals, and anyone with a passion for books and readers.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
7:00 PM
The Pour House Irish Pub
182 Dupont Ave.
Toronto, ON
(Directions)
Leading up to the event, Julie Wilson of Book Madam & Associates will unveil the identity of the six inaugural Associates, many of whom will be at the event. Find them and say hello!
And be sure to get a piece of Sean Cranbury of Books on the Radio while he’s in town from Vancouver. He’s the big guy with the big voice and an bigger heart. Don’t miss him!
Many thanks to Amy Logan Holmes and Open Book Toronto for their generous support and donation of light nibblies. Nom!
Bring your insatiable thirst and enthusiasm! SOCIABLE!
Filed under: Interview | Tags: Advent Book Blog, Amy Logan Holmes, Book Madam, bookmadam, Clelia Scala, Joseph Planta, Julie Wilson, Open Book: Toronto, Rebecca Wilcott, Seen Reading, thecommentary.ca
Listen to Joe Planta interviewing me about the Advent Book Blog here.
December 2009 has been all about the Advent Book Blog for me.
The ABB – for short – has been an excellent project that has gathered together a huge range of people to recommend a huge range of new(ish) books for Holiday gift giving.
Julie Wilson is my partner in crime in organizing this viral online book community. For those of you who don’t already know of Julie, she’s behind the voyeuristic literary blog Seen Reading and is currently dividing what remains of her personalities between her life as Bookmadam and the mercurial Rebecca Wilcott.
Joseph Planta
We have done a few online written interviews over the past few weeks, too.
Erin Balser was the first one in the water with her Q&A for the Torontoist.com on December 1st.
Amy Logan Holmes and Clelia Scala of Open Book: Toronto interviewed Julie, me and ABE the Advent Book Elf a little later in the month.
Now, here’s a phone interview that I did with thecommentary.ca‘s Joseph Planta last week.
A great interview where we touch all bases of the Advent Book Blog from inception to execution. We talk about Vancouver book stores, the power within the bookseller/customer relationship and my upcoming brief custodianship of the commentary.ca while Joe takes a break.
Listen to the interview and let me know what you think.
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Filed under: Industry Change, Interview, Support Independents | Tags: 48 Hour Interview, Amy Logan Holmes, Book Oven, Book Publishing, BookCamp Toronto, BookCamp Vancouver, Clelia Scala, DRM, Fall Magazine, File Sharing, Future of Publishing, Hugh McGuire, Librivox, Librivox.org, Montreal, Open Book Toronto Magazine, Open Book: Toronto, P2P, P2P File Sharing Networks, Piracy, Publishing, Sean Cranbury, Toronto, Vancouver
Sometime around the middle of August I got an email from Amy Logan-Holmes at Open Book: Toronto asking whether I would be interested in participating in something called the 48 Hour Interview that would run in their Fall Issue.
She described it as an email exchange or co-interview between two people working within the books/publishing industry. The participants are free to discuss whatever they like provided that the ‘interview’ occurs within 48 consecutive hours and, I suppose, is at least tangentially related to the business at hand.
So I’m thinking, “Ok, that sounds doable. I wonder who she’s going to pair me up with?”
And, of course, it was Hugh McGuire, co-creator of Book Oven and Librivox.org. Organizer of BookCamp Toronto and well-coiffed confidante of the Digital Literati.
No pressure, right?
None.
It was a great, if somewhat long, interview that really dug into some key issues facing the evolving – convulsing? – book publishing industry today.
The whole thing was edited and punched into shape by the very talented Clelia Scala. Many thanks to Hugh and everyone at Open Book: Toronto.
For an example of something that I wrote for the interview that may or may not be interesting, please click the little red (more…) button below.
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