Eoin Purcell’s Blog

Those of you who have read any of my posts to date will have noticed no doubt a certain duality. A belief that technology offers an interesting and exciting future for book publishing combined with fears that new and different gatekeepers will be ready to choke off the opportunities that present themselves.
The gate keepers I [...]

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Those of you who read my links post yesterday may have seen my link to Plagiarism Today which I praised highly. Author Jonathon got back with a comment that I think it only fair to post on the front page:
Jonathan Says:
May 31st, 2006 at 4:31 pm e
I just wanted to say thank you for [...]

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I seem to have gotten back into the swing of these links posts recently. I wonder how long they last!
An interesting link this one. The Publishing Spot is an excellent source of comment, interview and other posts relating to publishing.
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I think I may have linked to Open Access News before but I don’t mind. It’s [...]

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Publishing News has a report on an amusing hoo-ha between American and British publishers at the BEA last week. As they report it:
Carolyn Reidy, President and Publisher of Simon & Schuster, told the packed ‘Turf Wars’ session at the BEA last Friday. She said UK publishers were scare-mongering in their concerns over territoriality and that [...]

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There is an intriguing story on thePostChronicle today about comic books:
Comic Book Resources, an online magazine, found more than 30 percent had downloaded a comic book at least once, and 12 percent said they downloaded comic books regularly.
Not even comics are immune to the changes in the industry. The sooner publishers, of all types, [...]

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One man’s project to
document how to turn our blogs into books, or ‘blooks’
read it all.
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Scott Wallick is an editor with a very good blog. Read his “An Editor” tagged posts.
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A used and rare booksellers blog.Very readable.
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There is a fascinating post called Shaking Up tech Publishing on David Heinemeier Hansson’s blog Loud Thinking. It is from several months ago so you may have heard about it before. At first blush it might seem like just a rant against the publishing industry.
I’ve been talking to a lot of friends and acquaintances who [...]

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Following up on an issue digitisation just touches upon CopyCense is a good resource for getting into the discussion on copyright. Look for a nice links piece on orphan works.
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With all the discussion concerning the control of digital content and my own fear that authors will be caught between competing platforms I found an interesting [...]

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Via TeleRead an e-book blog more form Richard Charkin on Digitisation.

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Jeff Jarvis of Buzzmachine sure knows how to kick off a conversation online. His post The book is dead. Long live the book raised numerous commenters and responders. He followed that up with a round up of the response call More on books.
As a commenter said on this site in response to my own post [...]

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