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Tweet Tweet: Who’s Twittering in the Christian Book Trade?

Posted on March 31, 2009 by | 25 Comments

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Last Updated December 1, 2010

Twitter. It seems you can’t turn on the TV or radio, pick up a paper or open a magazine without someone twittering on about twitter. Even April’s Christian Marketplace, p.39; but I’m to blame for that one.

So what’s it all about? What’s the point? Two words: twitter connects. Bookseller to bookseller: bookseller to customer: bookseller to publisher and supplier: bookseller to author; and vice-versa, as well as every other possible which way. It connects us professionally but, perhaps more importantly, as people. So let’s make it three words: twitter connects people; and people, surely, is what this trade of ours is ultimately about.

So who amongst us is twittering? Here’s a list of those I know of so far, with a few from beyond the Christian trade thrown in for good measure — because we wouldn’t want to be just talking to ourselves, would we? Since UKCBD is a UK focused project, I’m initially restricting this list to UK users or those with a clear UK crossover. Other users are very welcome to comment, of course!

Index: Bookshops and Booksellers | Authors | Publishers and Suppliers | Others


Bookshops and Booksellers (A-Z by Shop Name/Surname)


Authors (A-Z by Surname)
With links to authors’ blogs and UKCBD Reviews where available.


Publishers and Suppliers (A-Z by Company/Surname)


Others

Index: Bookshops and Booksellers | Authors | Publishers and Suppliers | Others

If you’re on twitter, have some sort of connection to the UK Christian book trade and would like to be added to this list, please leave a comment on this post and/or follow/tweet me @notbovvered and I’ll gladly add you.

For a list of who’s twittering in the wider book trade, check out @jennifertribe‘s  Directory of Book Trade People on Twitter; and be sure to visit the christianbookshopbods twibe and blog set up by @unicorntreebks.

If you’re not on twitter and can’t quite figure it out, check out these posts from a couple of guys who’ve been at it for longer than me:

If you’re not convinced after reading those, then I guess twitter really is not for you. No worries: the world will keep on turning.

Where Next?

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Making the News, Getting Interactive?

Posted on February 6, 2009 by | 2 Comments

UK Christian Bookshops DirectoryAre you? Or to be more precise, is your shop? Making the news and/or getting interactive, that is?

As I’ve been ploughing (almost literally, given the weather recently) my way through the UKCBD database updates, I’ve come across several shops which have made the news in one way or another or have added blogs and facebook profiles to their online presence.

I’m adding these to shops’ directory entries as an extra enhancement when I find them, but why leave it to chance? I know it’s Darwin’s 200th anniversary this year and all that, but whatever your beliefs about evolution/creation, one thing you can be sure of is that your online presence will evolve one way or another — either creatively as you take control of it or chaotically as you leave it to chance and the search engines…

So if you’ve made the news, locally or nationally, or if you’ve set up a blog or created a facebook, other social network or twitter profile for your shop, please let me know and I’ll add it to your UKCBD entry.

I’ve also tweaked the database so that each entry updated since January 31st 2009 now includes its modification date in the main directory as well as in the corresponding standalone entry: from now on you’ll know exactly how up to date (or out of date!) every entry is. No date on an entry means that it hasn’t been updated since Jan 31st… 

Now, get on out there and build yourself a snowman…

(and if you’re incurably curious, you’ll find me twittering here: twitter.com/notbovvered)

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