Posted in Agents, Authors, Blogging, Books, Bookselling, Business, Buzzmachine, Copyright, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Librarians, Libraries, LibraryThing, News, Non-Fiction, Publishing, Publishing Innovation, Publishing People, Self Publishing, The long Tail, Trend Vs Fad Watch, e-publishing, ebooks on October 26, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Eoin Purcell
Thoughts on digital
Watching a fascinating (if worrying) documentary the other night on Tsunamis [Yes it has been said to me that between my obsession with documentaries of all sorts, my extreme non-fiction bookshelf and my actual daily work I come close to being the real life nerd] and the potential for a devastating one [...]
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Posted in Site Information on October 26, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
WordPress Domain Mapping
I have been waiting for this feature for some time and now that it is here and works excellently. There are a few items that might need to be looked out for but the basics should work fine. Just so every knows what is happening I have the details below.
I have [...]
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Posted in Authors, Blogging, Blogroll, Books, Bookselling, Business, News, Non-Fiction, Print, Publishing, Site Information, The How To, Writer on October 24, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
I love Google Reader
I know I have been quiet the last few weeks but I have made one huge change and I love it. I have shifted all my blog reading to Google Reader.
It is actually the business and enables me to do something I have longed to do for some time. The real [...]
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Posted in Books, Bookselling, Business, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, General, Print, Publishing, Publishing Innovation, The long Tail on October 20, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
Snowbooks MD Emma Barnes makes some interesting points about the future of Publishing.
Here
Apparently you can now get Wikipedia on your ipod.
Here & Here Apparently this is a dangerous link! Do not visit!
Some interesting Long Tail stuff. Music sells when it can be bought it seems!
Here
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Posted in Authors, Blogging, Books, Bookselling, Business, Marketing, News, Print On Demand, Publishing, Publishing Innovation, Publishing People on October 18, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
Change is Afoot
When I read this news it gave me a little shock. Thomas Nelson, a publisher which began its life in Scotland in the 18th Century is to cease using its 18 imprint names and instead from 1st April 2006 switch to a single brand and identity Thomas Nelson Publishers. From the Publishers [...]
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Posted in Agents, Authors, Books, Bookselling, Business, Jeff Jarvis, Media & News, News, Print, Print On Demand, Publishing, Publishing Innovation, Reporting, e-publishing on October 11, 2006 | 4 Comments »
Oh what a wonderful world. I have been getting really annoyed at the links and links and more links that The Big Bad Book Blog have been serving up (I am conscious of the hypocrisy/irony here) and then today they served up a wonderful piece going in depth into the mysteries of buying/getting front table [...]
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Again the news is slowly dawning on publishers that having your work highlighted might well result in actual sales. See this story for more.
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Posted in Authors, Books, Submissions on October 6, 2006 | 7 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
CONTRACTS ARE A WONDROUS THING
I talked in my last post about how to deliver a final text in Word. I thought today that I might also post some thoughts on manuscripts and contracts and how they relate.
All too often authors are so concerned with getting their book contract agreed that they pay a [...]
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Eoin Purcell
One key stage for an author (and for their editor too) is the manuscript submission stage or delivery as we call it here. This is when the final document is given to the publisher.
The manuscript itself could be a simple text book, a more complicated book involving images and text or a highly illustrated [...]
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Eoin Purcell
Jessica Coen moves to Vanity Fair
Some really intriguing news I have been meaning to post about is the news from The Huffington Post and Micropersuasion that Jessica Coen one of the keys to Nick Denton’s Gawker blog will jump over to Vanity Fair. She will become their deputy online editor. Read her own parting [...]
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