Comments on: Authors will drive change . . . http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2006/07/26/authors-will-drive-change/ It's that simple -- and that hard. And that inescapable. Fri, 25 May 2012 15:29:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Author, Niche & Power Shifts: What Pottermore MIGHT Point To | Eoin Purcell's Blog http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2006/07/26/authors-will-drive-change/#comment-64010 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:31:14 +0000 https://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/2006/07/26/authors-will-drive-change/#comment-64010 [...] even earlier (2006) when I wrote about Authors Driving Change: E-books will push this change even more. There is no reason why authors’ royalties should be the [...]

]]> By: FutureText Part Two - Publishers, Authors and the changing book « Eoin Purcell’s Blog http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2006/07/26/authors-will-drive-change/#comment-50406 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:26:11 +0000 https://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/2006/07/26/authors-will-drive-change/#comment-50406 [...] the end of the Novel. I’m not so sure about that, as I said yesterday. But, as I wrote in the second part of the series I mentioned above, the move towards digital liberates writers and will definitely [...]

]]> By: Addy http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2006/07/26/authors-will-drive-change/#comment-1054 Sat, 26 Aug 2006 22:03:23 +0000 https://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/2006/07/26/authors-will-drive-change/#comment-1054 A very interesting piece, Eoin.
I attended an industry panel consisting of a children’s writer, agent, publisher and a well known writing magazine. When I raised the question of e-books and ficblogs and the future of publishing on the web, there was an audible reactionary groan as the panel dismissed the notion of anything beyond the printed page. There will always be books but there is so much more and if the undustry is not careful it might be overtaken.
Best Wishes
Addy Farmer

]]> By: eoinpurcell http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2006/07/26/authors-will-drive-change/#comment-1045 Fri, 25 Aug 2006 22:20:27 +0000 https://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/2006/07/26/authors-will-drive-change/#comment-1045 Thank you Salleha!
I appreciate the kind words!

]]> By: Saaleha http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2006/07/26/authors-will-drive-change/#comment-1040 Fri, 25 Aug 2006 12:36:37 +0000 https://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/2006/07/26/authors-will-drive-change/#comment-1040 a well presented piece. Certainly gives all writers lots of ‘words’ for thought

]]> By: eoinpurcell http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2006/07/26/authors-will-drive-change/#comment-708 Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:02:09 +0000 https://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/2006/07/26/authors-will-drive-change/#comment-708 Why thank you Skint it is very nice of you to say!
Paddy, as ever you wisely send me back to earth when my wayward sights soar sunward!
Eoin

]]> By: skint writer http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2006/07/26/authors-will-drive-change/#comment-704 Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:36:15 +0000 https://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/2006/07/26/authors-will-drive-change/#comment-704 Nice series of posts Eoin. It’s good to see some intelligent analysis and commentary.

]]> By: Paddy Purcell http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2006/07/26/authors-will-drive-change/#comment-699 Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:29:08 +0000 https://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/2006/07/26/authors-will-drive-change/#comment-699 Well Eoin I’m glad you got that off your chest, just not so long ago you would have been writing that to yourself with a pencil on a scrap of paper what’s that you said “Options abound” and “The more writers realise it they will take advantage of it”
I enjoyed your “book is a book is a book” because you coming from it from the publist angel but me just a simple Sean Citisan of the payingreaders of the world who has always said “A book…….” but still I’m can hardly wait for tommorrow
Oh by the way I’m just back from the gym.
Slan Tamaill

Paddy P

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