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Monthly Archives: November 2006
MyPenguin: Design your own book cover
Eoin Purcell If you look at my linkblog, you will see that I have just shared this post by Penguin. Basically what they are offering is six classic titles with blank covers allowing you to draw, paste or even to … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookselling, Business, Future of Books, Future of Publishing
Tagged Business, cool
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The New Google Book Search – It is that good
Eoin Purcell Google have two posts this morning talking up their improvements to Google Book Search. From the Official Google Blog: My latest assignment has been to help develop a better way to browse our digitized books on a computer … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Business, Distribution, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Innovation
Tagged Business, Distribution, e-publishing, ebooks, Google Book Search, Publishing & Media News, Publishing Companies, Tech & Web stuff
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Strange rumbles: Blackwells & Ottakars
Eoin Purcell Wiley & More The Wiley acquisition of Blackwells (of which more here) seems to have generated a huge body of interest amongst searchers on the web. My page-views yesterday doubled and the bulk of those views were of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookselling, Business, Future of Books, Future of Publishing
Tagged Business
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More on distribution & Publicity (Part I)
Eoin Purcell So the question arises of what the options for distribution are for any given author and I thought it would really help to go over everything there is methodically both traditional, less traditional and new. Traditional ~A Full … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Bookselling, Business, Distribution, Future of Books, Future of Publishing
Tagged Business, Distribution, Marketing, Publishing Companies
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The Wiley/Blackwell deal
I missed much of the coverage on this deal in which Wiley acquired Blackwell but it strikes me as one more sign that there is a great deal of acquisition to come and industry consolidation too. With the Riverdeep acquistion … Continue reading
