Recent content by AgentPete

Yes, great post. I know exactly what you mean.

Woke up to find a Chinese company who I’ve dealt with previously has successfully billed my credit card four times for goods not ordered. It’s a lot of money. Credit card company says – “wait for the good to arrive, then see if you can return them for a refund”. This is so wrong! All my morning...

That’s exactly it, Brian. If you want to refine this a bit, you might indicate how the market may have grown/developed/changed since the comp you’re referring to was published, and how your project meets that need. But I’d stop well short of criticizing the comp. For one thing, it’s quite...

So this is where the concept (mine, I do believe) of "appropriateness of medium" comes into play. It's an idea that is often not always understood or taken into account when planning a new venture, even books sometimes. Different media, even sub-media, have varying AoM profiles relative to...

We had an experimental internet radio station going for a while, “Radio Litopia”, and I absolutely loved it. I could set one up for you… :) :)

Yup, the “buying votes” thing is utterly extraordinary, surely jail time…? The (current) administration surely won’t lift a finger on this "ethical violation" issue, I feel sure. What puzzles me is the way the record labels have meekly fallen into line. It’s their funeral. There’s very little...

I’ve only just caught up with this (others here will already have done so, I’m sure) but it does repay careful reading, just to see what the @&%$ happened to the music industry… and could it happen to publishing? I’m inclined to think, not exactly.. but…...

The UK’s The Online Safety Act has now come into force and has some implications for Litopia. In summary, the OSA requires services which handle user-generated content to: Have baseline content moderation practices Use those moderation practices to take down reported content that violates UK...

Big things happening soon here, folks :) And PJ... Remember who coined that expression, "Constellations"... :) p.

I haven't watched any of the videos, it's v difficult to do so if I'm out and about (waiting for a lunch date at the moment). It would be v helpful to have a precis of the points being made in future, pls. As @anaximander says, if that's really what the video is saying, these guys are simply...

As they say, it’s complicated. Do men buy books? Yes – of course – but probably not as many nor as frequently as females. However, that’s such a gaping generalization as to be mostly worthless. And frankly, I don’t even trust much of the research in this area. Publishing and market research...

Just corrected. I’m afraid that embedded material in the public blog post often doesn’t transfer to the Colony, that’s simply how the RSS feed works. In future please do ask me to embed it here as well. :) p.

Yup. Musk’s lawyers are still phoning advertisers threatening to sue them if they fail to advertise. Which as a former ad man, enrages me… whatever happened to Musk’s much-vaunted “free speech”, then? Egads! But if you spend any time scrolling around “X” (I don’t recommend it) you’ll get a quite...

Over the years, Litopia has amassed 38,000 followers on Twitter, so turning our back on them is hard. However – how many of those people are still there, in fact – and actually active? I don’t know. What I do know is that place is the embodiment of that unpleasant term for an even more...