'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
None, they should more concerned that book publishing is doomed. The internet is putting them out of business, quickly.....memo to self find some publishers to short tomorrow.
There's more to publishing than books. And you can publish on multiple platforms.
Any UK company that does a lot of business in the single market will be seeking to ensure they stay in the Single Market. It would be negligent to do otherwise.
As an aside I thought it was telling by Watson on Pienaar that quite obviously he and Jezza hadn't discussed Jezza's no single market no A50 Mirror article.
What a state Lab is in. Plus who has the authority? Media is reporting Lab won't obstruct A50 evidently taking Watson's as the authoritative version.
One of the most fascinating outcomes of the EU referendum is the way it has almost broken the time-honoured political division of left & right.
Indeed, if things do go very badly wrong economically for Brexit, then it is almost credible that the Lib Dems, as apparently the only Remain/Rejoin flag-bearers still standing, could pick up massive numbers of votes if the electorate really do change their minds under economic hardship.
I know....I never thought someone with my political leanings could be one of the few here championing liberal capitalism.
I fundamentally agree with the single market and free movement of labour...both are vital to our future prosperity......
I really do not give a monkeys about the EU Parliament, or who makes the laws. I couldn't care less. It seems to be very important to people here though...
Your definition of liberal capitalism seems to be a form of blackmail where in order to trade you must accept that anyone from anywhere can move into your neighbourhood.
That's basically what liberal capitalism entails: freedom of capital, labour and trade.
As an aside I thought it was telling by Watson on Pienaar that quite obviously he and Jezza hadn't discussed Jezza's no single market no A50 Mirror article.
What a state Lab is in. Plus who has the authority? Media is reporting Lab won't obstruct A50 evidently taking Watson's as the authoritative version.
I heard that Corbyn had backpedalled on the single market caveat earlier today, but it could also be the product of wider discussions with the PLP. The vast bulk of Labour MPs outside of London represent Leave-majority seats. Presumably wish to limit the potential for an electoral cataclysm.
Whatever "chaos" is said to exist in the Conservative Govt, is a fraction of the chaos in the Labour party.
At the moment. I would not bet on that remaining a stable situation in the medium- or long term.
Which is why a GE is needed soon. i.e. within 6 months.
As an aside I thought it was telling by Watson on Pienaar that quite obviously he and Jezza hadn't discussed Jezza's no single market no A50 Mirror article.
What a state Lab is in. Plus who has the authority? Media is reporting Lab won't obstruct A50 evidently taking Watson's as the authoritative version.
One of the most fascinating outcomes of the EU referendum is the way it has almost broken the time-honoured political division of left & right.
Indeed, if things do go very badly wrong economically for Brexit, then it is almost credible that the Lib Dems, as apparently the only Remain/Rejoin flag-bearers still standing, could pick up massive numbers of votes if the electorate really do change their minds under economic hardship.
*If* it all goes belly-up (and I hope it does not), then the Lib Dems can claim to have been right on two of the biggest issues facing the UK since they were formed: the Iraq War and Brexit.
If.
I think the problem with that if, is that it would be very hard to prove any catastrophe was actually down to Brexit. They have already damaged their credibility on that score. Immediate recession Year long recession Etc etc.
And the longer you get from June 23rd the harder it will be to link catastrophe with Brexit, especialy as there will be a hundred other things going on that can be blamed.
No way. For years if not decades, every government will blame Brexit for anything that goes wrong in any policy sphere.
Far from making UK politicians accountable to themselves, Brexit is, rather, the ultimate get out of jail card.
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
None, they should more concerned that book publishing is doomed. The internet is putting them out of business, quickly.....memo to self find some publishers to short tomorrow.'
Exactly, my son's company has gone digital & actual printing of books has virtually ended in the EU.With major publishers switching to Hong Kong & China several years ago.
I'm sure that anyone in any business that Tyson meets is going to exit the UK because of Brexit ,at least that's what he thinks they should say.
12% of the population live in California and clinton has a 22% lead - thus 2.5% of the entire electorate is being wasted from Hillary's point of view.
6% of the population live in New York and Clinton has a 20% lead - thus 1.2% of the entire electorate is being wasted from Hillary's point of view.
Hence the reason why democrats bus voters between states the night before the election, so they can show they were domiciled in the more marginal state.This is not illegal.
Fortunately for Trump - Florida is surrounded by red states, so it stands or falls on its own merits.
Obama won California by 23% in 2012, New York by 28% so Trump is making a little progress there. He is making even more progress in Pennsylvania, which Obama won by 5%, Michigan, which Obama won by 10%, Minnestota, which Obama won by 8% and Wisconsin which Obama won by 7%. However for all his progress in these big blue states Trump is unlikely to obtain even one additional electoral vote. He is also likely to expand Romney's lead in the rustbelt and deep South, again without gaining any more electoral votes than Romney did
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
None, they should more concerned that book publishing is doomed. The internet is putting them out of business, quickly.....memo to self find some publishers to short tomorrow.
In the 1970s, people were saying that cinema was doomed, over-ridden by TV. Then Spielberg and Lucas came along.
Books and publishing will continue; perhaps not in paper form (except as specialist fripperies, in the same way vinyl has). But it will continue.
I hope PBers have advised their butler to instruct the footman to polish the silver cutlery ahead my little ARSE4US announcement at 9:00am tomorrow morning ....
..
Hillary herself has instructed her maid to print it out so she can peruse it in the comfort of her bed.
"Print it out ..." !!!!!!!!!!
I have a vellum scroll sent by private jet provided by the Clinton Foundation and sponsored by the Saudi royal family ..
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son ( both with major publishers) do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
Online......journals...academic journals.......medical journals.......University attached publishers....for instance Oxford University Press is the largest income generator for the University......
People were even questioning about the use of the English language at European conferences post Brexit.
Really very depressing...but I'm very pleased to hear your son and wife will be OK...
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
None, they should more concerned that book publishing is doomed. The internet is putting them out of business, quickly.....memo to self find some publishers to short tomorrow.
There's more to publishing than books. And you can publish on multiple platforms.
Any UK company that does a lot of business in the single market will be seeking to ensure they stay in the Single Market. It would be negligent to do otherwise.
I was too narrow in using the term book.
Certainly you can publish on many different platforms but it is one of those industries where it really doesn!t matter where you are based. You can have one man and a dog in an office where you want your registered business and your authors, contributers any where in the world.
And if you need an ofice because you are publishing on paper....younare facing a quick business death.
I hope PBers have advised their butler to instruct the footman to polish the silver cutlery ahead my little ARSE4US announcement at 9:00am tomorrow morning ....
..
Is it going to be map illustrated?
I shall be on tenterhooks along with the rest of the political world!
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
None, they should more concerned that book publishing is doomed. The internet is putting them out of business, quickly.....memo to self find some publishers to short tomorrow.
In the 1970s, people were saying that cinema was doomed, over-ridden by TV. Then Spielberg and Lucas came along.
Books and publishing will continue; perhaps not in paper form (except as specialist fripperies, in the same way vinyl has). But it will continue.
You are correct, but it will be Accrington Stanley.
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
None, they should more concerned that book publishing is doomed. The internet is putting them out of business, quickly.....memo to self find some publishers to short tomorrow.
In the 1970s, people were saying that cinema was doomed, over-ridden by TV. Then Spielberg and Lucas came along.
Books and publishing will continue; perhaps not in paper form (except as specialist fripperies, in the same way vinyl has). But it will continue.
Trains were supposed to be made redundant by cars in the 60s and 70s.
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
None, they should more concerned that book publishing is doomed. The internet is putting them out of business, quickly.....memo to self find some publishers to short tomorrow.
In the 1970s, people were saying that cinema was doomed, over-ridden by TV. Then Spielberg and Lucas came along.
Books and publishing will continue; perhaps not in paper form (except as specialist fripperies, in the same way vinyl has). But it will continue.
You are correct, but it will be Accrington Stanley.
Nah.
Books have one advantage: the reader's imagination. Whenever you watch a TV program or a film of a book, you have interpreters between yourself and the author. With a book, you have just yourself.
In addition, TV and films rarely have enough money to do books justice.
That is why books: whether printed, e-Ink, Audible or whatever - will continue.
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
None, they should more concerned that book publishing is doomed. The internet is putting them out of business, quickly.....memo to self find some publishers to short tomorrow.
In the 1970s, people were saying that cinema was doomed, over-ridden by TV. Then Spielberg and Lucas came along.
Books and publishing will continue; perhaps not in paper form (except as specialist fripperies, in the same way vinyl has). But it will continue.
Any book I get in electronic form I always print out and comb bind on a tough old German-made comb binder. I've never read a book other than on paper.
My guess for what its worth is that Clinton will win the popular vote by a modest margin(maybe 3%) but win the EC by a landslide picking up FL, NC, AZ, Col, NV, NM, Penn and probably Ohio as well, all by tiny margins. I personally think 350 is still achievable for her but in reality it will have been a much nearer run thing than that will indicate.
Books have one advantage: the reader's imagination. Whenever you watch a TV program or a film of a book, you have interpreters between yourself and the author. With a book, you have just yourself.
Which is why The Martian, the book, is better than The Martian, the movie
And why no Jack Reacher film starring Tom Cruise will ever be any good
Trains were supposed to be made redundant by cars in the 60s and 70s.
Sunil in "INSANE TRAIN GEEK" mode (according to @SeanT !)
Sunil's Great British Railway Journeys - 2016 Edition. Rail routes that Sunil has done for the first time - Other routes were done for the first time in previous calendar years.
January: Kidsgrove to Manchester Piccadilly, Overton to Salisbury, Ashford to Eastbourne, Manningtree to Harwich
February: Nottingham to Hucknall (NET tram), Alderley Edge to Cheadle Hulme, Manchester Piccadilly to Ashton (Metrolink), Chester to Liverpool via Birkenhead, Newhaven Harbour to Seaford
March: Ford to Bognor Regis, Polegate to Eastbourne, Crowhurst to St Leonards, Petersfield to Portsmouth, Portsmouth to Eastleigh, Derby to Matlock, Matlock to Rowsley South (Peak Rail)
April: Faversham to Dover, Ely to Kings Lynn, Liverpool to Southport, Thorpe-le-Soken to Walton-on-Naze
May: Ely to Norwich, Cambridge to Stowmarket, Stockport to Buxton, Barnham to Havant, Bedhampton to Cosham, Fareham to St Denys (Southampton), Island Line (Ryde to Shanklin, Isle of Wight), Bull Street to New Street (Midland Metro)
June: Ipswich to Lowestoft, Nottingham to Chesterfield, Nottingham to Clifton South (NET), Nottingham to Toton Lane (NET), David Lane to Phoenix Park (NET), Peterborough to Lincoln, Ramsgate to Dover
July: Gloucester to Newport (Wales), Liverpool to Wigan North Western, Southampton to Weymouth, Nottingham to Lincoln, Grantham to Skegness, Gobowen to Chester, Norwich to Great Yarmouth (via Acle), Great Yarmouth to Norwich (via Berney Arms), Sileby to Melton Mowbray, Ipswich to Felixstowe
August: Nottingham to Worksop, Salisbury to Westbury, Winsford to Manchester Airport, Manchester Airport to Piccadilly, Eastleigh to Salisbury, Norwich to Sheringham, Manchester Piccadilly to Leeds (via Huddersfield), Guide Bridge to Hadfield (via Glossop), Hadfield to Dinting (direct)
September: Piccadilly to Bury (Manchester Metrolink), Salisbury to Exeter St. Davids (via Yeovil), Sheffield Station to Halfway (Supertram), Gleadless Townend to Herdings Park (Supertram), Brockenhurst to Lymington Pier, Birkenhead Hamilton Square to West Kirby, Birkenhead North to New Brighton, Reedham (Norfolk) to Lowestoft, Ely to Kennett, Wigan North Western to Preston
October: Pewsey to Newton Abbot (avoiding Westbury and Frome), Stockport to Chester (via Altrincham), Redbridge (Hants.) to Romsey, Sheffield to Doncaster (avoiding Rotherham), Chippenham to Trowbridge, Manchester Piccadilly to Liverpool (via Warrington Central), Huyton to Manchester Deansgate (via Newton-le-Willows), Castle Cary to Yeovil Junction (via Pen Mill), Bruton to Frome, Hooton to Ellesmere Port, Ellesmere Port to Helsby, Bristol to Taunton (avoiding Weston-super-Mare), Langley Green to Smethwick Rolfe Street (engineering diversion!)
Books have one advantage: the reader's imagination. Whenever you watch a TV program or a film of a book, you have interpreters between yourself and the author. With a book, you have just yourself.
Which is why The Martian, the book, is better than The Martian, the movie
And why no Jack Reacher film starring Tom Cruise will ever be any good
Well he is about half the size he should be for a start.
Sunil in "INSANE TRAIN GEEK" mode (according to @SeanT !)
(Snip)
January: Kidsgrove to Manchester Piccadilly, Overton to Salisbury, Ashford to Eastbourne, Manningtree to Harwich
February: Nottingham to Hucknall (NET tram), Alderley Edge to Cheadle Hulme, Manchester Piccadilly to Ashton (Metrolink), Chester to Liverpool via Birkenhead, Newhaven Harbour to Seaford
March: Ford to Bognor Regis, Polegate to Eastbourne, Crowhurst to St Leonards, Petersfield to Portsmouth, Portsmouth to Eastleigh, Derby to Matlock, Matlock to Rowsley South (Peak Rail)
April: Faversham to Dover, Ely to Kings Lynn, Liverpool to Southport, Thorpe-le-Soken to Walton-on-Naze
May: Ely to Norwich, Cambridge to Stowmarket, Stockport to Buxton, Barnham to Havant, Bedhampton to Cosham, Fareham to St Denys (Southampton), Island Line (Ryde to Shanklin, Isle of Wight), Bull Street to New Street (Midland Metro)
June: Ipswich to Lowestoft, Nottingham to Chesterfield, Nottingham to Clifton South (NET), Nottingham to Toton Lane (NET), David Lane to Phoenix Park (NET), Peterborough to Lincoln, Ramsgate to Dover
July: Gloucester to Newport (Wales), Liverpool to Wigan North Western, Southampton to Weymouth, Nottingham to Lincoln, Grantham to Skegness, Gobowen to Chester, Norwich to Great Yarmouth (via Acle), Great Yarmouth to Norwich (via Berney Arms), Sileby to Melton Mowbray, Ipswich to Felixstowe
August: Nottingham to Worksop, Salisbury to Westbury, Winsford to Manchester Airport, Manchester Airport to Piccadilly, Eastleigh to Salisbury, Norwich to Sheringham, Manchester Piccadilly to Leeds (via Huddersfield), Guide Bridge to Hadfield (via Glossop), Hadfield to Dinting (direct)
September: Piccadilly to Bury (Manchester Metrolink), Salisbury to Exeter St. Davids (via Yeovil), Sheffield Station to Halfway (Supertram), Gleadless Townend to Herdings Park (Supertram), Brockenhurst to Lymington Pier, Birkenhead Hamilton Square to West Kirby, Birkenhead North to New Brighton, Reedham (Norfolk) to Lowestoft, Ely to Kennett, Wigan North Western to Preston
October: Pewsey to Newton Abbot (avoiding Westbury and Frome), Stockport to Chester (via Altrincham), Redbridge (Hants.) to Romsey, Sheffield to Doncaster (avoiding Rotherham), Chippenham to Trowbridge, Manchester Piccadilly to Liverpool (via Warrington Central), Huyton to Manchester Deansgate (via Newton-le-Willows), Castle Cary to Yeovil Junction (via Pen Mill), Bruton to Frome, Hooton to Ellesmere Port, Ellesmere Port to Helsby, Bristol to Taunton (avoiding Weston-super-Mare), Langley Green to Smethwick Rolfe Street (engineering diversion!)
November: Stockport to Sheffield
Time to get yourself a girlfriend.
Seriously though: that's impressive.
Oh, and if the ride was rough on Matlock to Darley South: I might have helped lay the track.
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son ( both with major publishers) do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
Online......journals...academic journals.......medical journals.......University attached publishers....for instance Oxford University Press is the largest income generator for the University......
People were even questioning about the use of the English language at European conferences post Brexit.
Really very depressing...but I'm very pleased to hear your son and wife will be OK...
I understand that each member country nominates a language for the official EU business, and since only the UK nominates English, the EU will be obliged to manage without that language once we are no longer a member.
As an aside I thought it was telling by Watson on Pienaar that quite obviously he and Jezza hadn't discussed Jezza's no single market no A50 Mirror article.
What a state Lab is in. Plus who has the authority? Media is reporting Lab won't obstruct A50 evidently taking Watson's as the authoritative version.
One of the most fascinating outcomes of the EU referendum is the way it has almost broken the time-honoured political division of left & right.
Indeed, if things do go very badly wrong economically for Brexit, then it is almost credible that the Lib Dems, as apparently the only Remain/Rejoin flag-bearers still standing, could pick up massive numbers of votes if the electorate really do change their minds under economic hardship.
*If* it all goes belly-up (and I hope it does not), then the Lib Dems can claim to have been right on two of the biggest issues facing the UK since they were formed: the Iraq War and Brexit.
If.
They were right on the Iraq war. That's netted them 8 seats. If Brexit goes belly up they could double that eventually.
Books have one advantage: the reader's imagination. Whenever you watch a TV program or a film of a book, you have interpreters between yourself and the author. With a book, you have just yourself.
Which is why The Martian, the book, is better than The Martian, the movie
And why no Jack Reacher film starring Tom Cruise will ever be any good
Can anyone name any film or TV adaptations which are better than the book they come from? There must be some?
Books have one advantage: the reader's imagination. Whenever you watch a TV program or a film of a book, you have interpreters between yourself and the author. With a book, you have just yourself.
Which is why The Martian, the book, is better than The Martian, the movie
And why no Jack Reacher film starring Tom Cruise will ever be any good
Can anyone name any film or TV adaptations which are better than the book they come from? There must be some?
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son ( both with major publishers) do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
Online......journals...academic journals.......medical journals.......University attached publishers....for instance Oxford University Press is the largest income generator for the University......
People were even questioning about the use of the English language at European conferences post Brexit.
Really very depressing...but I'm very pleased to hear your son and wife will be OK...
I understand that each member country nominates a language for the official EU business, and since only the UK nominates English, the EU will be obliged to manage without that language once we are no longer a member.
I'm sure they will manage fine - why not?
What language does Ireland nominate? And Malta? Sweden?
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
None, they should more concerned that book publishing is doomed. The internet is putting them out of business, quickly.....memo to self find some publishers to short tomorrow.
There's more to publishing than books. And you can publish on multiple platforms.
Any UK company that does a lot of business in the single market will be seeking to ensure they stay in the Single Market. It would be negligent to do otherwise.
I was too narrow in using the term book.
Certainly you can publish on many different platforms but it is one of those industries where it really doesn!t matter where you are based. You can have one man and a dog in an office where you want your registered business and your authors, contributers any where in the world.
And if you need an ofice because you are publishing on paper....younare facing a quick business death.
Well, we do B2B and we are growing at double figure rate year on year. We produce magazines, directories, management reports, Yearbooks, news and analysis blogs and email alerts, webinars, conferences and more besides. Most other B2Bs do the same. We will almost certainly be opening an office in the single market when the UK leaves it. Investments we would have made in our London office will be made in the new office instead.
Books have one advantage: the reader's imagination. Whenever you watch a TV program or a film of a book, you have interpreters between yourself and the author. With a book, you have just yourself.
Which is why The Martian, the book, is better than The Martian, the movie
And why no Jack Reacher film starring Tom Cruise will ever be any good
Can anyone name any film or TV adaptations which are better than the book they come from? There must be some?
No country for old men?
Not read the book, so I'll have to take your word for it.
One I've thought of: the Barchester Chronicles. The TV series with Donald Pleasance, Nigel Hawthorne and a very young Alan Rickman was far superior to Trollope's book series IMO. And some say that was Trollope's best series ...
Books have one advantage: the reader's imagination. Whenever you watch a TV program or a film of a book, you have interpreters between yourself and the author. With a book, you have just yourself.
Which is why The Martian, the book, is better than The Martian, the movie
And why no Jack Reacher film starring Tom Cruise will ever be any good
Can anyone name any film or TV adaptations which are better than the book they come from? There must be some?
Can anyone name any film or TV adaptations which are better than the book they come from? There must be some?
Jason Bourne maybe?
The godfather. Book is good but the film....
They are loads of films people don't realise come from a book...because the book wasn't very good. I think a better question is there a film version of a well known book that is superior to the book.
Well, we do B2B and we are growing at double figure rate year on year. We produce magazines, directories, management reports, Yearbooks, news and analysis blogs and email alerts, webinars, conferences and more besides. Most other B2Bs do the same. We will almost certainly be opening an office in the single market when the UK leaves it. Investments we would have made in our London office will be made in the new office instead.
I passed a truck the other day that advertised 'doordrop media' as a service
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
None, they should more concerned that book publishing is doomed. The internet is putting them out of business, quickly.....memo to self find some publishers to short tomorrow.
UK physical book sales 2015 £2.75bn. Digital sales £554m. There's life in the old dog yet.
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son ( both with major publishers) do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
Online......journals...academic journals.......medical journals.......University attached publishers....for instance Oxford University Press is the largest income generator for the University......
People were even questioning about the use of the English language at European conferences post Brexit.
Really very depressing...but I'm very pleased to hear your son and wife will be OK...
I understand that each member country nominates a language for the official EU business, and since only the UK nominates English, the EU will be obliged to manage without that language once we are no longer a member.
I'm sure they will manage fine - why not?
They would I'm sure, but ironically it might even help the use of English as minus the UK it becomes nearly neutral ( Ireland and to a lesser extent Malta, I guess, excluded but they are tiddlers in EU terms ). English has survived and thrived in post 1947 India partly because, once the British left, it was a neutral alternative to the dominance of Hindi.
Europe needs a real lingua Franca to work well, to get a shared media and culture (look how the U.S. election is so easily and detailedly followed on here because we have "open access" via the language).
Books have one advantage: the reader's imagination. Whenever you watch a TV program or a film of a book, you have interpreters between yourself and the author. With a book, you have just yourself.
Which is why The Martian, the book, is better than The Martian, the movie
And why no Jack Reacher film starring Tom Cruise will ever be any good
Can anyone name any film or TV adaptations which are better than the book they come from? There must be some?
No country for old men?
Not read the book, so I'll have to take your word for it.
One I've thought of: the Barchester Chronicles. The TV series with Donald Pleasance, Nigel Hawthorne and a very young Alan Rickman was far superior to Trollope's book series IMO. And some say that was Trollope's best series ...
Book series? The TV series only covered the first and second books of a six book series.
Europe needs a real lingua Franca to work well, to get a shared media and culture (look how the U.S. election is so easily and detailedly followed on here because we have "open access" via the language).
Although I wonder how long that will last. If the Latino block vote is now a thing, perhaps we should be watching Telemundo.
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
None, they should more concerned that book publishing is doomed. The internet is putting them out of business, quickly.....memo to self find some publishers to short tomorrow.
UK physical book sales 2015 £2.75bn. Digital sales £554m. There's life in the old dog yet.
eBook sales have stalled in growth over the past 2 years. There is no real sign yet that they are going to kill off print books on the way digital music has done to CDs.
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son ( both with major publishers) do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
Online......journals...academic journals.......medical journals.......University attached publishers....for instance Oxford University Press is the largest income generator for the University......
People were even questioning about the use of the English language at European conferences post Brexit.
Really very depressing...but I'm very pleased to hear your son and wife will be OK...
I understand that each member country nominates a language for the official EU business, and since only the UK nominates English, the EU will be obliged to manage without that language once we are no longer a member.
I'm sure they will manage fine - why not?
What language does Ireland nominate? And Malta? Sweden?
Books have one advantage: the reader's imagination. Whenever you watch a TV program or a film of a book, you have interpreters between yourself and the author. With a book, you have just yourself.
Which is why The Martian, the book, is better than The Martian, the movie
And why no Jack Reacher film starring Tom Cruise will ever be any good
Can anyone name any film or TV adaptations which are better than the book they come from? There must be some?
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son ( both with major publishers) do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
Online......journals...academic journals.......medical journals.......University attached publishers....for instance Oxford University Press is the largest income generator for the University......
People were even questioning about the use of the English language at European conferences post Brexit.
Really very depressing...but I'm very pleased to hear your son and wife will be OK...
I understand that each member country nominates a language for the official EU business, and since only the UK nominates English, the EU will be obliged to manage without that language once we are no longer a member.
I'm sure they will manage fine - why not?
What language does Ireland nominate? And Malta? Sweden?
I don't know - my information comes from a discussion on here some months ago. It was said that, since obviously the UK nominates English for an official language, that allows several other countries to nominate their own less-spoken languages & still do business in English.
Books have one advantage: the reader's imagination. Whenever you watch a TV program or a film of a book, you have interpreters between yourself and the author. With a book, you have just yourself.
Which is why The Martian, the book, is better than The Martian, the movie
And why no Jack Reacher film starring Tom Cruise will ever be any good
Can anyone name any film or TV adaptations which are better than the book they come from? There must be some?
No country for old men?
Not read the book, so I'll have to take your word for it.
One I've thought of: the Barchester Chronicles. The TV series with Donald Pleasance, Nigel Hawthorne and a very young Alan Rickman was far superior to Trollope's book series IMO. And some say that was Trollope's best series ...
Book series? The TV series only covered the first and second books of a six book series.
Well yes: of the ones they filmed. There was something about the tone of Trollope's writing that irritates me (admittedly I haven't read any recently), and the TV series was so utterly charming.
eBook sales have stalled in growth over the past 2 years. There is no real sign yet that they are going to kill off print books on the way digital music has done to CDs.
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son ( both with major publishers) do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
Online......journals...academic journals.......medical journals.......University attached publishers....for instance Oxford University Press is the largest income generator for the University......
People were even questioning about the use of the English language at European conferences post Brexit.
Really very depressing...but I'm very pleased to hear your son and wife will be OK...
I understand that each member country nominates a language for the official EU business, and since only the UK nominates English, the EU will be obliged to manage without that language once we are no longer a membe I'm sure they will manage fine - why not?
It is just another step Anne for the UK being parochial.... And why academic and medics and the top brains will choose to go for placements in Europe...
Something that struck me (us) though lunch....is that we (the UK) are sitting in Europe, we have a say on what goes on, we have a veto..it is a huge trading block, the political ramifications affect us in every single way...from security, to everything.... And as the UK we have extra gravitas, our language, our role in the UN etc..... And we have a central role in what is decided...from global warming, to security, to anything....And we've just chucked all of it away...for nothing....
Who in their right minds would choose to move out of that to what? To throw all that influence away with our neighbours for what?
It's not just the publishers that deal with universities....that talent...the brain drain.....Brexit is so utterly depressing on every conceivable level..
But Brexit is Brexit...and the sooner we move to a hard Brexit, and understand how little we are in the grand scheme of things the better for me. Then and only then will people start to understand what we have given up.....
Books have one advantage: the reader's imagination. Whenever you watch a TV program or a film of a book, you have interpreters between yourself and the author. With a book, you have just yourself.
Which is why The Martian, the book, is better than The Martian, the movie
And why no Jack Reacher film starring Tom Cruise will ever be any good
Can anyone name any film or TV adaptations which are better than the book they come from? There must be some?
The Shining
Not sure about that one. Book is genuinely scary. Not one to read on your own. The scene in the bathroom and the hosepipe that may be coming alive...shiver. Brilliant at getting your imagination running riot.
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
None, they should more concerned that book publishing is doomed. The internet is putting them out of business, quickly.....memo to self find some publishers to short tomorrow.
UK physical book sales 2015 £2.75bn. Digital sales £554m. There's life in the old dog yet.
eBook sales have stalled in growth over the past 2 years. There is no real sign yet that they are going to kill off print books on the way digital music has done to CDs.
Books have one advantage: the reader's imagination. Whenever you watch a TV program or a film of a book, you have interpreters between yourself and the author. With a book, you have just yourself.
Which is why The Martian, the book, is better than The Martian, the movie
And why no Jack Reacher film starring Tom Cruise will ever be any good
Can anyone name any film or TV adaptations which are better than the book they come from? There must be some?
No country for old men?
Not read the book, so I'll have to take your word for it.
One I've thought of: the Barchester Chronicles. The TV series with Donald Pleasance, Nigel Hawthorne and a very young Alan Rickman was far superior to Trollope's book series IMO. And some say that was Trollope's best series ...
Book series? The TV series only covered the first and second books of a six book series.
Mr Men books.... Arthur Lowe was brilliant doing the voices
eBook sales have stalled in growth over the past 2 years. There is no real sign yet that they are going to kill off print books on the way digital music has done to CDs.
eBook sales have stalled in growth over the past 2 years. There is no real sign yet that they are going to kill off print books on the way digital music has done to CDs.
I just bought 2 hardback books
Publishers who deal in print are now competing against publishers who source their materials at 30/40% cheaper.....
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
None, they should more concerned that book publishing is doomed. The internet is putting them out of business, quickly.....memo to self find some publishers to short tomorrow.
UK physical book sales 2015 £2.75bn. Digital sales £554m. There's life in the old dog yet.
eBook sales have stalled in growth over the past 2 years. There is no real sign yet that they are going to kill off print books on the way digital music has done to CDs.
I happily buy novels for my Kindle, and easy read non-fiction. But if it is something that I intend to take notes from, or which I think will require considerable flipping backwards and forwards between pages or chapters, or something where I think I shall be writing my own notes in the margins, then nothing beats paper. Kindle is particularly clunky in jumping from page to page, or for searching for something you read 2 chapters earlier.
In fact, anything which I work from, I print up, whether its a web page, an email or an attached document.
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
None, they should more concerned that book publishing is doomed. The internet is putting them out of business, quickly.....memo to self find some publishers to short tomorrow.
UK physical book sales 2015 £2.75bn. Digital sales £554m. There's life in the old dog yet.
eBook sales have stalled in growth over the past 2 years. There is no real sign yet that they are going to kill off print books on the way digital music has done to CDs.
I happily buy novels for my Kindle, and easy read non-fiction. But if it is something that I intend to take notes from, or which I think will require considerable flipping backwards and forwards between pages or chapters, or something where I think I shall be writing my own notes in the margins, then nothing beats paper. Kindle is particularly clunky in jumping from page to page, or for searching for something you read 2 chapters earlier.
In fact, anything which I work from, I print up, whether its a web page, an email or an attached document.
That (as a non Kindle reader) really surprises me. My son uses his IPAD at school and has done for the last 3 years. Being able to note, highlight and link comments to the text seems obviously useful and where paper should be behind.
Books have one advantage: the reader's imagination. Whenever you watch a TV program or a film of a book, you have interpreters between yourself and the author. With a book, you have just yourself.
Which is why The Martian, the book, is better than The Martian, the movie
And why no Jack Reacher film starring Tom Cruise will ever be any good
Can anyone name any film or TV adaptations which are better than the book they come from? There must be some?
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son ( both with major publishers) do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
Online......journals...academic journals.......medical journals.......University attached publishers....for instance Oxford University Press is the largest income generator for the University......
People were even questioning about the use of the English language at European conferences post Brexit.
Really very depressing...but I'm very pleased to hear your son and wife will be OK...
I understand that each member country nominates a language for the official EU business, and since only the UK nominates English, the EU will be obliged to manage without that language once we are no longer a membe I'm sure they will manage fine - why not?
It is just another step Anne for the UK being parochial.... And why academic and medics and the top brains will choose to go for placements in Europe...
Something that struck me (us) though lunch....is that we (the UK) are sitting in Europe, we have a say on what goes on, we have a veto..it is a huge trading block, the political ramifications affect us in every single way...from security, to everything.... And as the UK we have extra gravitas, our language, our role in the UN etc..... And we have a central role in what is decided...from global warming, to security, to anything....And we've just chucked all of it away...for nothing....
Who in their right minds would choose to move out of that to what? To throw all that influence away with our neighbours for what?
It's not just the publishers that deal with universities....that talent...the brain drain.....Brexit is so utterly depressing on every conceivable level..
But Brexit is Brexit...and the sooner we move to a hard Brexit, and understand how little we are in the grand scheme of things the better for me. Then and only then will people start to understand what we have given up.....
You massively overstate the hit to higher education, particularly research institutes. English is the language of scientific publication. That gives those working in English (which is far easier to do from a country where English is the mother tongue) have a huge advantage over those working elsewhere. This shows up not just in publications, but more importantly to scientists, in citations.
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son ( both with major publishers) do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
Online......journals...academic journals.......medical journals.......University attached publishers....for instance Oxford University Press is the largest income generator for the University......
People were even questioning about the use of the English language at European conferences post Brexit.
Really very depressing...but I'm very pleased to hear your son and wife will be OK...
I understand that each member country nominates a language for the official EU business, and since only the UK nominates English, the EU will be obliged to manage without that language once we are no longer a member.
I'm sure they will manage fine - why not?
They would I'm sure, but ironically it might even help the use of English as minus the UK it becomes nearly neutral ( Ireland and to a lesser extent Malta, I guess, excluded but they are tiddlers in EU terms ). English has survived and thrived in post 1947 India partly because, once the British left, it was a neutral alternative to the dominance of Hindi.
Europe needs a real lingua Franca to work well, to get a shared media and culture (look how the U.S. election is so easily and detailedly followed on here because we have "open access" via the language).
Thank you so much - that is the first really positive identifiable benefit to the EU of the UK leaving that I've come across!
Books have one advantage: the reader's imagination. Whenever you watch a TV program or a film of a book, you have interpreters between yourself and the author. With a book, you have just yourself.
Which is why The Martian, the book, is better than The Martian, the movie
And why no Jack Reacher film starring Tom Cruise will ever be any good
Can anyone name any film or TV adaptations which are better than the book they come from? There must be some?
The Shining
The Shining is too ArtHouse....Too Kubrick stylised....Kubrick's much too much into photography and camerawork that it detracts from the narrative. His work became more obsessive later on, culminating in the ludicrous Eyes Wide Shut.
Here's an obscure one: I've tried to read CS Lewis's 'The Space Trilogy' before, but not got very far.
Is it worth persevering?
If you found Rolt's Landscape Trilogy turgid, probably not. Similar sort of style and approach especially when it comes to embedded philosophy.
Clinton to take Utah and carry out the first ever public lynching of an ex-FBI director? She's vindictive and she certainly will be plotting her revenge as we speak.
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son ( both with major publishers) do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
Online......journals...academic journals.......medical journals.......University attached publishers....for instance Oxford University Press is the largest income generator for the University......
People were even questioning about the use of the English language at European conferences post Brexit.
Really very depressing...but I'm very pleased to hear your son and wife will be OK...
I understand that each member country nominates a language for the official EU business, and since only the UK nominates English, the EU will be obliged to manage without that language once we are no longer a membe I'm sure they will manage fine - why not?
It is just another step Anne for the UK being parochial.... And why academic and medics and the top brains will choose to go for placements in Europe...
Something that struck me (us) though lunch....is that we (the UK) are sitting in Europe, we have a say on what goes on, we have a veto..it is a huge trading block, the political ramifications affect us in every single way...from security, to everything.... And as the UK we have extra gravitas, our language, our role in the UN etc..... And we have a central role in what is decided...from global warming, to security, to anything....And we've just chucked all of it away...for nothing....
Who in their right minds would choose to move out of that to what? To throw all that influence away with our neighbours for what?
It's not just the publishers that deal with universities....that talent...the brain drain.....Brexit is so utterly depressing on every conceivable level..
But Brexit is Brexit...and the sooner we move to a hard Brexit, and understand how little we are in the grand scheme of things the better for me. Then and only then will people start to understand what we have given up.....
The UK's seat on the UN and Security Council has nothing to do with membership of the EU
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Any UK company that does a lot of business in the single market will be seeking to ensure they stay in the Single Market. It would be negligent to do otherwise.
Clinton 76 .. Trump 14
http://www.latinodecisions.com/files/1514/7839/2130/Wk8_Full_Tracker.pdf
or .... Clinton 45.8 .. Trump 42.4 if you prefer the LA Times tracker ....
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
None, they should more concerned that book publishing is doomed. The internet is putting them out of business, quickly.....memo to self find some publishers to short tomorrow.'
Exactly, my son's company has gone digital & actual printing of books has virtually ended in the EU.With major publishers switching to Hong Kong & China several years ago.
I'm sure that anyone in any business that Tyson meets is going to exit the UK because of Brexit ,at least that's what he thinks they should say.
Books and publishing will continue; perhaps not in paper form (except as specialist fripperies, in the same way vinyl has). But it will continue.
I have a vellum scroll sent by private jet provided by the Clinton Foundation and sponsored by the Saudi royal family ..
People were even questioning about the use of the English language at European conferences post Brexit.
Really very depressing...but I'm very pleased to hear your son and wife will be OK...
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/07/us/politics/donald-trump-presidential-race.html?smid=tw-nytpolitics&smtyp=cur&_r=0&referer=https://t.co/PMELwhyrQz
Certainly you can publish on many different platforms but it is one of those industries where it really doesn!t matter where you are based. You can have one man and a dog in an office where you want your registered business and your authors, contributers any where in the world.
And if you need an ofice because you are publishing on paper....younare facing a quick business death.
https://twitter.com/steveschale/status/795351410254737418
Noticias Telemundo poll of Latino voters
76% for Hillary Clinton
14% for Donald Trump,
a 62 point margin
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3910746/Chelsea-Clinton-used-Foundation-money-fund-wedding-according-new-Wikileaks-emails.html
Well they do say charity starts at home...
Books have one advantage: the reader's imagination. Whenever you watch a TV program or a film of a book, you have interpreters between yourself and the author. With a book, you have just yourself.
In addition, TV and films rarely have enough money to do books justice.
That is why books: whether printed, e-Ink, Audible or whatever - will continue.
The reason the GOP inclined RCP average is at only Clinton +1.8 is they don't include some national polls with larger Clinton leads.
Latino Decisions – @LatinoDecisions
If you need a really good laugh in these final days - the infamous USC/LAT tracking poll has Latino vote at +3 Clinton. Final LD has it +63
And why no Jack Reacher film starring Tom Cruise will ever be any good
Sunil's Great British Railway Journeys - 2016 Edition. Rail routes that Sunil has done for the first time - Other routes were done for the first time in previous calendar years.
January: Kidsgrove to Manchester Piccadilly, Overton to Salisbury, Ashford to Eastbourne, Manningtree to Harwich
February: Nottingham to Hucknall (NET tram), Alderley Edge to Cheadle Hulme, Manchester Piccadilly to Ashton (Metrolink), Chester to Liverpool via Birkenhead, Newhaven Harbour to Seaford
March: Ford to Bognor Regis, Polegate to Eastbourne, Crowhurst to St Leonards, Petersfield to Portsmouth, Portsmouth to Eastleigh, Derby to Matlock, Matlock to Rowsley South (Peak Rail)
April: Faversham to Dover, Ely to Kings Lynn, Liverpool to Southport, Thorpe-le-Soken to Walton-on-Naze
May: Ely to Norwich, Cambridge to Stowmarket, Stockport to Buxton, Barnham to Havant, Bedhampton to Cosham, Fareham to St Denys (Southampton), Island Line (Ryde to Shanklin, Isle of Wight), Bull Street to New Street (Midland Metro)
June: Ipswich to Lowestoft, Nottingham to Chesterfield, Nottingham to Clifton South (NET), Nottingham to Toton Lane (NET), David Lane to Phoenix Park (NET), Peterborough to Lincoln, Ramsgate to Dover
July: Gloucester to Newport (Wales), Liverpool to Wigan North Western, Southampton to Weymouth, Nottingham to Lincoln, Grantham to Skegness, Gobowen to Chester, Norwich to Great Yarmouth (via Acle), Great Yarmouth to Norwich (via Berney Arms), Sileby to Melton Mowbray, Ipswich to Felixstowe
August: Nottingham to Worksop, Salisbury to Westbury, Winsford to Manchester Airport, Manchester Airport to Piccadilly, Eastleigh to Salisbury, Norwich to Sheringham, Manchester Piccadilly to Leeds (via Huddersfield), Guide Bridge to Hadfield (via Glossop), Hadfield to Dinting (direct)
September: Piccadilly to Bury (Manchester Metrolink), Salisbury to Exeter St. Davids (via Yeovil), Sheffield Station to Halfway (Supertram), Gleadless Townend to Herdings Park (Supertram), Brockenhurst to Lymington Pier, Birkenhead Hamilton Square to West Kirby, Birkenhead North to New Brighton, Reedham (Norfolk) to Lowestoft, Ely to Kennett, Wigan North Western to Preston
October: Pewsey to Newton Abbot (avoiding Westbury and Frome), Stockport to Chester (via Altrincham), Redbridge (Hants.) to Romsey, Sheffield to Doncaster (avoiding Rotherham), Chippenham to Trowbridge, Manchester Piccadilly to Liverpool (via Warrington Central), Huyton to Manchester Deansgate (via Newton-le-Willows), Castle Cary to Yeovil Junction (via Pen Mill), Bruton to Frome, Hooton to Ellesmere Port, Ellesmere Port to Helsby, Bristol to Taunton (avoiding Weston-super-Mare), Langley Green to Smethwick Rolfe Street (engineering diversion!)
November: Stockport to Sheffield
Seriously though: that's impressive.
Oh, and if the ride was rough on Matlock to Darley South: I might have helped lay the track.
I'm sure they will manage fine - why not?
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/latino-vote-surge-donald-trump-campaign-230804
He isnt doing better with republican Hispanics either.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton_vs_johnson_vs_stein-5952.html
"No criminality in Clinton emails - FBI"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2016-37892138
Seems I was wrong in their ability to do this quickly ...
FBI nothing found.
One I've thought of: the Barchester Chronicles. The TV series with Donald Pleasance, Nigel Hawthorne and a very young Alan Rickman was far superior to Trollope's book series IMO. And some say that was Trollope's best series ...
Better known as Junk Mail
Europe needs a real lingua Franca to work well, to get a shared media and culture (look how the U.S. election is so easily and detailedly followed on here because we have "open access" via the language).
Something that struck me (us) though lunch....is that we (the UK) are sitting in Europe, we have a say on what goes on, we have a veto..it is a huge trading block, the political ramifications affect us in every single way...from security, to everything.... And as the UK we have extra gravitas, our language, our role in the UN etc..... And we have a central role in what is decided...from global warming, to security, to anything....And we've just chucked all of it away...for nothing....
Who in their right minds would choose to move out of that to what? To throw all that influence away with our neighbours for what?
It's not just the publishers that deal with universities....that talent...the brain drain.....Brexit is so utterly depressing on every conceivable level..
But Brexit is Brexit...and the sooner we move to a hard Brexit, and understand how little we are in the grand scheme of things the better for me. Then and only then will people start to understand what we have given up.....
Now 6 - what he was before the e-mail re-opening.
IMHO this is over.
High-brow.... That's me.
Europeans refusing to use it? Little Europeans.
Publishers who deal in print are now competing against publishers who source their materials at 30/40% cheaper.....
Trump 6
Clinton was 1.27 only 15 mins ago.
Is it worth persevering?
In fact, anything which I work from, I print up, whether its a web page, an email or an attached document.
https://twitter.com/mitchellvii/status/795362292770684928
NEW THREAD
The Shining is too ArtHouse....Too Kubrick stylised....Kubrick's much too much into photography and camerawork that it detracts from the narrative. His work became more obsessive later on, culminating in the ludicrous Eyes Wide Shut.
Clinton to take Utah and carry out the first ever public lynching of an ex-FBI director? She's vindictive and she certainly will be plotting her revenge as we speak.