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Summer Books: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (sjhoward.co.uk)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:00:11 GMT

A bit of a change of pace for this week’s Summer Books selection - Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell, once featured as part of Richard and Judy’s Book Club. Confounding expectations for a book associated with a daytime chat show, Cloud Atlas soars to levels far above many of the books to be featured in this [...]

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Winners of literary lottery that is Richard & Judy's book club (The Independent)

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:00:01 GMT

... are now being rushed into paperback. Following in the footsteps of the success of Oprah Winfrey's book club in the US, Richard & Judy now wield unrivalled clout in the publishing world, with its annual Book Club and Summer Read delivering a sales boost of more than 300 per cent. Featuring on the list does not come cheap, however. Publishers have to be prepared to discount their...

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MojoPages Defies the Odds (Screenwerk)

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:20:16 GMT

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 [...]

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Confessions Links 04/29/2008 (Confessions of an Infomaniac)

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:30:16 GMT

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...

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Richard and Judy Book club moves to UK TV - book market doomed? [Andy Coote] (Ecademy: user blogs)

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:56:43 GMT

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...

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Judy's Book as a facebook app? (A Sack of Seattle)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:53:51 GMT

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.

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Winding down a company takes time (A Sack of Seattle)

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:17:40 GMT

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...

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Judy's Book co-founder creates Askablogr (John Cook's Venture Blog)

johncook@seattlepi.com (John Cook) — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:08:00 GMT

#98991 at 2/15/08 5:18 p.m.Sounds exactly like www.qwizzy.com#98993 at 2/15/08 5:31 p.m.who cares what bloggers think#99075 at 2/15/08 10:20 p.m."No real business model".... kinda like Judy's Book. What an entrepreneur! Now they'll try to take other entrepreneurs' money by incubating other people's ideas that have no business models. Brilliant! Talk about the blind leading the blind.#99077...

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Beyond Parody: Richard And Judy's Book Club A Levels (Anorak News)

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:07:14 GMT

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 [...]

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Cox’s Kudzu: National Footprint, Beefed Up Local, AutoTrader Tie (The Local Onliner)

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:06:54 GMT

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 [...]

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Richard & Judy Unveil UK's 2008 Reading List (MediaBistro.com)

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:30:37 GMT

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...

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Revealed: The Richard and Judy way to book a best-seller (Daily Mail)

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 01:06:29 GMT

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

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Richard and Judy unveil books list (Daily Star)

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:17:02 GMT

Ten authors are set for a happy New Year after being chosen for Richard and Judy's Book Club.

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Andy Sack’s Local Recommendations (Screenwerk)

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:51:22 GMT

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 [...]

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Sharing lessons learned, and dealing with scrutiny of failure (Steve Outing)

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:19:54 GMT

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 [...]

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Judy's Book farewell party (A Sack of Seattle)

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:49:06 GMT

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...

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Judy's Book Lessons Learned (Screenwerk)

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:50:33 GMT

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 [...]

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The Insider: Satirical site bashes predatory lenders (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:02:00 GMT

Enterpreneur launches satirical site for Predatory Lending Association ... Starbucks' first national TV is kinda cute ... Metropolitan Market launches reusable shopping bag ... Judy's Book dies, Grayboxx rises ... Avvo hires a top lawyer ...

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My feelings surrounding Judy's Book public wind down (A Sack of Seattle)

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:17:39 GMT

My wife asked me how I was feeling about the fact that the wind down of Judy's Book got so much press in Seattle (Seattle PI, TechCrunch, etc). At first, I admit there was some shame. I felt like a...

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The job market is too hot (A Sack of Seattle)

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:47:56 GMT

I was chatting with one of our lead developers at Judy's Book and he told me that he's received about 20 offers of employment in the last week! Many from recruiters and people he didn't know -- but he was...

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