Thanet Earth have finally publicly owned to having a fourth greenhouse, see http://thanetpress.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/a-fourth-greenhouse-at-thanet.html it amazes me that such an important aspect of the local economy produced so little in the way of public information.
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Saturday 19 January 2013
Granville House in Ramsgate bought by billionaire recluse, some thoughts on the future of bookselling and publishing, even the local papers, a ramble on a cold Saturday afternoon.
Thanet Earth have finally publicly owned to having a fourth greenhouse, see http://thanetpress.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/a-fourth-greenhouse-at-thanet.html it amazes me that such an important aspect of the local economy produced so little in the way of public information.
7 comments:
Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.
Once again you have beaten the Gazette with your Granville House report [surprise, surprise!]
ReplyDeleteTheir front page 'story' about Sainsbury at Westwood Cross had no maps, no plans and warranted just 4 single-column inches.
As they recently hiked the price up to 70p, maybe they could afford to hire you as their investigative journalist when you are not selling books?
Col I think the Gazette has the same conundrum that we are facing in the bookselling world, which is basically with far more text than anyone could possibly read, being added to the internet and available for free, how does anyone get paid for writing anything?
DeleteI guess the key here would be working out some way that people would pay so they were only presented with writing that was reasonably good, accurate and useful.
I work on the basis that giving half an hour a day to writing the blog, reminds people that my bookshop is still in existence and possibly worth a visit, and therefore justifies the time and effort.
Good marketing strategy Michael and you don't have to pay advertising fees.
ReplyDeleteI understand that Granville House was bought for 156,000.
ReplyDeleteLiking the reference to Mr Englander as being a billionaire, not quite there yet multi millionaire yes
DeleteYou need to find that newspaper - todays editions that is, Thanet gazette hilton hotel story
ReplyDeleteMessage to Hilton. Granville is a more prestigious drier location ?
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