Screenwerk (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
Grayboxx sold its assets after less than a year in the market. Arguably Judy's Book and InsiderPages were sold before their time. Backfence and Edgeio shut down after running out of funds. But MojoPages has so far defied the odds in local. According to a press release put out today, San Diego-based MojoPages is on track [...]
Confessions of an Infomaniac (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
Yelp Find, review and talk about local businesses such as restaurants, doctors, beauty salons, local services and hotels. tags: reviews, shopping, restaurants, travel Tagline: "Real People. Real Reviews." What's the difference between this and Judy's Book? - post by wroush Yelp - Restaurant Reviews, Doctors, Bars, Salons, Dentists and More - post by melmel Docstoc.com – free legal forms [...]
Ecademy: user blogs (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
Nicholas Clee on the Guardian Books Blog reports that Richard and Judy's book club will move to UK TV when their TV show ends its run on Channel 4. This could be significant, he claims, as In 2007, three of the four best selling novels in the UK were Book Club selections. They were The House at Riverton by Kate Morton (574,000 copies sold), The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards (702,000 copies),...
A Sack of Seattle (Free subscription) | 03/26/2008
Well, not exactly. But it's interesting to see how the base idea of judy’s book is now showing up as Facebook apps. My friend Todd Zawicki pointed this out to me -- He's got a good blog too.
A Sack of Seattle (Free subscription) | 03/19/2008
It's been about 4 months since I started the process of winding down Judy's Book. During that time, we've sold the assets, had to settle up with creditors, and are now embarking on the process of dissolving the corporation. My...
John Cook's Venture Blog (Free subscription) | 02/16/2008
Askablogr is a new online service that does just what the name suggests, allows blog readers to ask questions of blog authors.
Anorak News (Free subscription) | 02/06/2008
SOME days you can just type out the entire contents of the Daily Express and pass it off a brilliant parody. We offer you this: “The English A-level is to get a dramatic revamp thanks to the huge success of Richard and Judy's Book Club… “It became such a nationwide hit that it has spawned its own [...]
The Local Onliner (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
Kudzu, the services-oriented ratings and review directory from Cox Search, has been under the radar for awhile, while similar services (i.e. Judy's Book, InsiderPages and BackFence) have run into some turbulence. But a recent visit with GM Tom Bates and head of business development Edward Rosenfeld at Kudzu's headquarters in suburban Atlanta [...]
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 12/27/2007
The Daily Telegraph has posted a list of the next ten books for Richard and Judy's Book Club, as featured on Channel 4's Richard and Judy. (The effect on writers's British sales is generally acknowledged to be proportionately akin to...
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 12/27/2007
Forget the Man Booker, the Orange and the Costa book awards. The prize that every author really aspires to win is inclusion on the shortlist for Richard and Judy's Book Club
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 12/27/2007
Ten authors are set for a happy New Year after being chosen for Richard and Judy's Book Club.
Screenwerk (Free subscription) | 12/14/2007
I spoke last week with Judy's Book CEO Andy Sack about the decision to shutter the site and his reflections on the entire experience. We had a free-ranging conversation that was very lively and illuminating. But since I was in my car during the call, I’m just going to reproduce the highest level bullets. After making [...]
Steve Outing (Free subscription) | 11/30/2007
It's been an odd week for me. After my business partner and I decided to shut down our small company, the Enthusiast Group, I decided to be open and transparent about what happened. Following the lead of Judy's Book founder Andy Sacks, I’ve blogged and written a column about what we learned about grassroots and [...]
A Sack of Seattle (Free subscription) | 11/28/2007
We had a really great farewell party last night with lots of past employees from the company attending. It's strange -- I had a little nervousness about having past employees attend the farewell party but in the end it was...
Screenwerk (Free subscription) | 11/28/2007
Andy Sack and I will “sit down” and discuss his reflections on Judy's Book in the next few days. But he’s got some interesting thoughts about the site and its closing on his personal blog. Here are a few abbreviated excerpts: My first and biggest lesson learned from the past 3.5 years can be summed up [...]
