Stop Press for Monday, 5th March

05/03/07: Stop Press for Monday, 5th March

Beginning a more regular update of my links (RSS Feed available).

The Top Ten Blogs on the future of books, media and publishing
The lovely Eoin Purcell puts Booktwo in there – but it’s a good list even so…
Amazon invests heavily in Shelfari
I’m not sure about Shelfari – yet. Like Librarything and others, it’s too much hard work to update your books, and you don’t get much back. But if someone can do a last.fm for books, then it could get fun…
Random House unveil their Google Books alternative
With searchable text and embeddable widget-type stuff all round. But why? Google Books is just a library, and libraries don’t kill publishers – they expand their market. Concentrate on publishing…

By James Bridle. This entry was posted on Monday, March 5th, 2007 at 12:14 pm and is tagged with Stop Press. Here's a permanent link to this post, and the RSS feed for the comments. You can leave a comment below, or trackback from your own site.

Max (March 5th, 2007 at 10:32 pm ) #
Shelfari looks depressingly naff, but I know people who have put fairly big collections (3-4,000 titles) on LibraryThing. I guess the motivation is there. As for doing so easily, have you seen Delicious Library?
James Bridle (March 5th, 2007 at 11:00 pm ) #
3-4,000? That’s insane. But then, I thought loading all my CDs into iTunes, and ripping my vinyl library, and downloading the coreect cover art was insane, and now look at me.

Delicious Library looks nice. I shall check it…