Month: July 2006

AOL eyes Web video market with publishing partnership

Brightcove’s video “self-publishing system” is in demand. Now Hearst Corp, Allen & Co, IAC, Interactive Corp and AOL are aligning with them. This shows that the convergence of traditional media and new media is gathering speed and urgency. America Online Inc. (AOL) struck a deal with a fledgling online video distribution system developer, Brightcove Inc., …

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Lulu exploits the long tail

Nice post on “Self Publish Books about how Lulu is trying exploit the long tail phenomena through technology. I’ve written a few posts on Lulu but this adds a bit more meet to the sandwich. Self Publish Blooks: Divergence of the self-publish business model “Apparently Lulu is trying exploit the long tail phenomena through technology. …

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MySpace tracks downloaded 3 million times

Here is another example of a Self-publishing success with MySpace. TIME Europe Magazine: Jul. 31, 2006 — Reasons to Be Cheerful – 1 A handful of free tracks posted on Allen’s page on virtual community MySpace has garnered almost 3 million listens. “Obviously I’m really grateful for MySpace and what it’s done for me,” says …

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MySpace for publishing songs

Great way to get your songs out there. Look at Jessica below. 65,000 people have downloaded her song from MySpace and now she is to be featured in a book! Great Self-Publishing effort. The Frederick News-Post Jessica has received so many song plays on MySpace (over 65,000), she will be featured in John Pospisil’s book, …

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Comics and Web Comic Self-Publishing

It’s so easy to get locked in to your own type of publishing. In my case it is book publishing having been a regular at the Frankfurt and Chicago Book Show for a number of years. It’s refreshing to see another publishing genre written about. This time it is comics. Webcomics online extra