My ID cards book Card declined is now available in four more bookshops: Politicos, the online political bookshop, and (appropriately for Independent Booksellers Week) three more independent bookshops in the Cotswolds – The Borzoi Bookshop in Stow, Evenlode Books in Charlbury and Madhatter Bookshop in Burford. Although still available from Amazon in print and Kindle, if you are anywhere near any of the physical bookshops – also including Jaffe & Neale in Chipping Norton and the National Museum of Computing in Bletchley – please buy from them, or Politicos. The NHS isn’t funded by taxes paid in Luxembourg… Continue reading “The secret of getting a self-published book into independent bookshops”
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Card declined on sale in Jaffe & Neale bookshop in Chipping Norton
I am very happy to say that my ID cards book Card declined is going on sale at Jaffe & Neale, Chipping Norton’s leading bookshop, tea room, ticket seller and general place to be seen. (It tweets too, as previously noted.)
To suit bookshops, I have produced a new ‘US trade’ format paperback priced at £5.99 rather than the near-A4 version previously on sale. This also includes two articles I have written since first publication in March, on the civil service and ID cards for Guardian Public Leaders and ‘The decline of the great British government IT scandal’ post which appeared on Campaign4Change. Continue reading “Card declined on sale in Jaffe & Neale bookshop in Chipping Norton”
Can ewe recognise Chipping Norton in the news?
Chippy has recently been profiled by two of the world’s most prestigious newspapers. One even got most of its facts right. The Times, rating Chipping Norton as the fifth-best town in Britain, was not that paper. [Log-in required to read full Times articles.] ‘This town is sometimes described as Britain’s answer to Beverley Hills because of its high-profile residents,’ it started, comparing us to an area in the middle of a city of many millions of people. Changing tack, it added that ‘the town is peaceful and picturesque,’ A44 HGVs presumably notwithstanding. It went on to claim the population is a mix of locals, weekending Londoners and wealthy international buyers, blessed with ‘London-standard pubs and restaurants’. The paper also put Kingham at number 20 in its separate list of best villages, with the inevitable picture of Alex James and mention of the ‘Chipping Norton set’. Continue reading “Can ewe recognise Chipping Norton in the news?”
How small businesses from BrewDog to Jaffe & Neale use Twitter
My first article for TechRadar Pro, on how small businesses can make smart use of Twitter, has just been published. Thanks to Patrick Neale at Jaffe & Neale bookshop and cafe, and Sarah Warman at craft brewer and bar manager BrewDog, for their time talking about this. Continue reading “How small businesses from BrewDog to Jaffe & Neale use Twitter”
Local NHS news comes from local journalists, so let’s not go paperless
Last week, Sam Shead of ZDNet got in touch with EHI Intelligence to ask if we expect to see a paperless NHS by 2018, as Jeremy Hunt pledged in a speech (analysed sharply by my EHI colleague Lyn Whitfield – she quotes one of Hunt’s aides on whether there will be funding to go paperless as saying: “Oh God. Do you mean central money? No, not a thing”). Mr Shead quoted me as follows:
“The English NHS will not be paperless by 2018,” senior analyst at EHI Intelligence, SA Mathieson, told ZDNet. “It is made up of several hundred organisations with greatly differing IT capabilities, as well as thousands of independent GPs.” Continue reading “Local NHS news comes from local journalists, so let’s not go paperless”