Posted in Books, Bookselling, Business, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, cool on November 23, 2006 | 3 Comments »
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 build your own cover with beads. From the post:
The covers are art-quality paper, and from internal Penguin [...]
Posted in Books, Business, Distribution, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Google Book Search, Media & News, Publishing, Publishing Innovation, Tech & Web stuff, e-publishing, ebooks on November 22, 2006 | No Comments »
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 screen. I’ve always had an interest in cutting-edge web applications — existing Google products such as Gmail, [...]
Posted in Books, Bookselling, Business, Future of Books, Future of Publishing on November 21, 2006 | 1 Comment »
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 the tiny post I had noting the acquisition. Richard Charkin speculates a little and explains more in [...]
Posted in Authors, Bookselling, Business, Distribution, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Marketing, Publishing on November 20, 2006 | 2 Comments »
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 Service Publishing House: Okay so this is the old school, old flavour, way of getting published. You submit [...]
Posted in Books, Bookselling, Business, Publishing on November 19, 2006 | No Comments »
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 recently this marks one of a few large and interesting recent moves. Over on Personanondata you [...]
Posted in Publishing on November 10, 2006 | No Comments »
I spotted some nice praise for one of my favourite authors in Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2006:
No Present Like Time Steph Swainston (Eos)Swainston’s scintillating prose, well-developed characters and talent for brilliant absurdities mark this as one of the more innovative fantasies of recent years.
Just wanted to share it.Buy her first book too its [...]
Posted in Publishing, Uncategorized on November 10, 2006 | 11 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
While it sounds a little humorous and more like a game from my childhood in actual fact this is a very important issue and and that will become more so over the next few years.
Editors are an endangered species in one sense and a rare commodity in another. They are endangered [...]
Posted in Agents, Authors, Authors Etc., Blogging, Books, Bookselling, Business, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Non-Fiction, Print, Print On Demand, Publishing, Publishing Innovation, Self Publishing, Tech & Web stuff, e-publishing, ebooks on November 5, 2006 | 6 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
The Snowblog vision
A few days ago, Rob Jones over at Snowblog wrote an intriguing post on the future of publishers in a changing world.
One of the best parts is when he isolates the key function of the publisher:
Of course publishers do one more thing: they absorb risk. That’s to say, they take a chance [...]
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