We do hope all is well with you and 2011 is already proving an exciting year for your travelling and reading!
We?ve got news about a superb competition ? with one of the most regarded walking seminar companies around ? new developments and new titles at city-picks.
Do please forward this newsletter on to friends, family and colleagues who might be interested.
Best
Malcolm and Heather, Oxygen Books
* Win an in-depth Context walking seminar for the intellectually curious traveller! city-pick has teamed up with Context, an acclaimed network of English-speaking scholars and professionals ? including art historians, writers, architects and gastronomes ? who lead world-wide walking seminars. Travel + Leisure has named Context one of the top tour companies for its innovative approach to travel and the depth of its programme.
Context and city-pick offer you the chance to win an exciting introduction to the city tour for two people in Florence, Rome, Venice, Naples, Berlin, Paris, London, New York, Istanbul, Philadelphia, Madrid, Athens or Boston between August 2011 and August 2012. www.contexttravel.com
Simply answer this question: how many city-pick titles are currently published? and email your answer and your preferred city tour together with your name and telephone number, to: info@oxygenbooks.co.uk The competition closes 30 June 2011.
** Stop press ? read us in Guardian Travel city guides www.guardian.co.uk/travel city-picks is choosing the best books set in over ten world cities. See if you agree or disagree with us! The next two cities are Barcelona and Amsterdam.
*** New York! New York! Yes, city-pick New York is our next title, published on 20 October 2011 and it?s our biggest book yet with over 100 amazing writers from Woody Allen, Tom Wolfe and Don DeLillo to Patti Smith, Junot Diaz and David Byrne. city-pick Istanbul and St Petersburg follow in 2012.
**** From Berlin and Venice ? to city-pick Hull. city-pick has curated a special afternoon of amazing writing about Hull for the Humbermouth Festival, launching the festival on 25 June 2011, 2.30 ? 4.00pm, Hull Central Library. We were astonished at the range of writing and we think you will be also. www.hullcc.gov.uk
***** So what do, you, our readers really think about us? We?ve been well received by the press? who have said: 'It's like having your own iPad loaded with different tomes' The Times 'Wonderful' The Guardian 'Impressive' Sunday Telegraph 'Essential - slip it into your bag alongside a Rough Guide' Waterstones Books Quarterly ?We love the city-pick books. They?re right up our readers? street!? Lonely Planet Magazine 'What a great idea! A sublime introduction' Sydney Morning Herald.? But two years down the line we wanted to know what our readers really thought about us and worked with consultant Pamela Pfrommer from Anglia Ruskin University?s Ashcroft International Business School to find out.
Were we seen as travel guides? Were we travel writing? (Both these questions have always worried us) Did people read us when they were going away or were they just interested in reading about a city? And were we too leftfield for our own good? All was revealed when the report landed on our desks last week and we discovered the real truth.
- We are read as ?a unique way of learning about a city before a visit? and for our ?good variety of stories ? gives a good look at a place?. But equally if not more people said we were ?not just a guide book. Gives a ?feel? for place? especially the literary pieces? and ?they really show you all the faces of a city with lovely writing?. ?Love the city-picks because of the literary aspects and because many different interesting views and comments are given. I can get all the guidebook info from the internet?
- We are quirky but ?it?s a great concept, a great ?way into? a city, ?a great idea? albeit with ?some strange choices of extracts included. Deliberately eclectic? ?The blend of literature and travel makes a visit of the city that feels almost magical?
- The titles also work we have discovered as reading lists: ?The series really appeals to me as I love to read novels/ biographies about a place before I visit. These books really help with that and have introduced me to many new writers?
- ?The series is filling a gap in the market? (passed to our sales team!)
- The most popular cities for future city-picks are (in order): Edinburgh, New York, Barcelona, Istanbul, Rome, San Francisco and Vienna.
- The demographic profile of a current buyer is female, aged between 40 ? 65 who attends art exhibitions and heritage venues and reads the Guardian and Observer, travels extensively outside and inside the UK, loves social networking, buys a lot of books on-line (and one doesn?t like our covers!)
We wanted to share with you the huge looks of relief on our faces at city-pick hq that we were on the right city track and our next two titles were always going to be New York and Istanbul!
Phew!?
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