My grandfather was a magazine publisher; mostly he seems to have published a magazine in India in the 1920s called, simply, Business. There was another one called Indian Ink. These letters are from and to George Bernard Shaw. The first letter is missing. My grandfather presumably requested that he contribute some articles to the magazine. GBS [...]
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Self-publishing: just a case of vanity? I commented on this post a while back and then forgot all about it until @selfpubreview flagged it up for me on Twitter. The comments thread is an interesting snapshot of both sides of the self-publishing argument. [In case you can't be bothered to read the whole thing, be assured that I [...] My explanatory guide on subjects to be avoided at all costs in ELT materials. PornographyStudent: Teacher, what is ‘pornography’?Teacher: Er, it’s pictures of naked people.Student: Do you mean like paintings?Teacher: Er, not really.Student (smelling blood now): So, what is the difference?Teacher: … Why don’t you ask Michel? He was looking at some on one of the student [...] I just had to write a chapter on Project Management for a business studies textbook. I used to hate teaching business English and writing business English materials, but then I went freelance and started running my own business and suddenly the subject came alive for me. Working with Americans and Chinese people also invigorated my interest [...] Excellent post about intellectual property and why certain leviathans of the publishing industry are light years behind others in terms of the way they think about copyright. I’ve been wondering just why it is that people who write software are more likely to embrace the open source mentality than people who write ‘text’ books. When you get [...] Despite having recently lost my job (technically I resigned, but that was really a case of rat abandoning sinking ship) and been made effectively homeless by the credit crunch, I have more reasons to be cheerful than most of my colleagues in educational publishing. This morning 15 people were made redundant in the London office of the [...] I’ve been avoiding the Kindle for a while. Not sure why – I really should try and get to grips with such technology, seeing as it’s been about to revolutionise my industry for, oh, about six or seven years now. I’m really not sure why I dislike e-book readers. I’ve happily junked all my tapes and [...] This gem, from a writer commissioned by one of the big UK awarding bodies: ‘Once again, websites will provide most information, but if there is access to a library that would contain books then a visit would be good.’ Most of the writers on this series have been excellent; they are practising professionals who somehow manage to combine [...] |
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