For a few hours today a Bloomsbury UK sales conference that was accidentally made “public” on YouTube was discovered and served as the book trade distraction of the day. Something similar happened earlier this spring when Penguin’s video take on “Empire State of Mind” was accidentally public online for a short period. By the afternoon, the Bloomsbury UK players’ take on the copyrighted Glee cast version of the song “Don’t Stop Believin” was gone again. On Twitter, reactions ran from gleeful to glum, since the music video also included a mock-serious narrated set-up from company executive Richard Charkin (who termed […]
