eBay “Connecting With The Customer Workshop”
You can never connect with your customer too much and eBay is offering a workshop in order to help you make the most from your customers.
The workshop will be held on July 26th 10am to 11am PST.
Do Blog Readers Not Read?
Here is an interesting article from The Guardian having quoted Andrew Keen as saying: “I don’t think bloggers read”. I’m not sure about you guys, but I certainly hope y’all read 
Interestingly enough he’s written a book on the subject called “The Cult of the Amateur”. While I don’t recommend buying the book, I do think it’s fascinating that one of the first people to go bust as part of the Internet Bubble Burst would turn to traditional media in order to make a buck.
BookTour.com Launches
Finally, a central place where authors and audiences can get together. If you need to stay on top of various book tours (to get signings for those first editions 
), or just want to stay on top of the industry, this is the site for you.
Here is the official launch press release:
BookTour.com, a free online service connecting authors and audiences, announced its public launch today. In private beta since June 1, BookTour.com has been showcased at Book Expo America 2007 and the first O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference, where company chairman Chris Anderson (Editor in Chief of Wired Magazine and author of The Long Tail) was a featured presenter.
“BookTour.com uses what’s best about the Internet—decentralization, low barrier to entry and universal access—to create a one-stop tool for book promotion,” said Anderson. “For authors, BookTour makes locating speaking venues totally painless. For the community at large, there’s now a single site for information on when a favorite author is coming to town.”
To take a look at the site, and start marking your calendar, click here.
