Posted in Books, Bookselling, Business, Distribution, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Lulu.com, Print On Demand, Publishing, Publishing Innovation, blurb.com, e-publishing, ebooks on December 30, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
Via Bluberati blog:
There is a very interesting and valuable analysis of the costs and practicalities of having a photo album printed in full colour by some of the major internet printers here on Mike DelGaudio’s blog.
Approaching New Year calmly
Eoin
PS: Looks like I have been included in this test so enjoy the [...]
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Eoin Purcell
If Google are to be believed
GBS linked to this page of books including Dickens’ classic tale. You will see that the books are all limited preview and available to buy, yet Dickens is long dead and his books firmly in the public domain, surely they could have dreged up a version that was free [...]
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Posted in Mince pies on December 22, 2006 | 5 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
Christmas & the living is easy!
The office wind down is done and we had a meal last night in an absolutely wonderful restaurant called Tante Zoe’s, where we had their Christmas Dinner Menu. Definitely worth going if you have time and the inclination.
Making mince pies
I generally don’t post about things like this but I [...]
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Eoin Purcell
From Where I sit:
The blog of Thomas Nelson boss Michael Hyatt (one of my favourite blogging CEOs by the way. He has a knack for blogging interesting and important points both for his internal audience and for those outside) has a very interesting analysis of the top ten trade publishers in the USA. It [...]
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Eoin Purcell
Good Tidings
Joe Wikert points in the direction of some good news ont he Print On Demand front. Its an interesting CNN/Forbes article that runs with news about On Demand Books [I have linked to these guys before; you might recall they have a video of their product in action] Espresso book manufacturing unit. from [...]
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Eoin Purcell
Google Patent Search
Google Patent Search was confusingly launched from the Inside Google Book Search blog. The service is nice and clean and works very well from what I can see. The search function is useful if you know what it is you are searching for, but as with any such insanely large catalogue, browsing [...]
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Posted in Publishing on December 13, 2006 | 1 Comment »
This article from the New York Times is worth reading and definitely worth thinking about too.
Eoin
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Posted in Books, Bookselling, Business, Distribution, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Google Book Search, Lulu.com, Marketing, e-publishing on December 8, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
This was news to me but I find it very interesting. A nice development for Self Publishers through lulu.com. Basically Lulu.com will allow you to get your book on GBS via their service so that the first link leads directly to your Lulu storefront. Nice feature.
It’s cold this December
Eoin
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Posted in Books, Distribution, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Google Book Search, Microsoft Live Book Search, Publishing, Publishing Innovation, e-publishing, ebooks on December 7, 2006 | No Comments »
UPDATE: NICE COMMENT FROM BOOKSQUARE HERE
So in case you missed it Microsoft launched their rival book search product. There has been a great deal of comment on it. The product however does not have nearly the same buzz as Google’s product has.
Lifehacker has a pointer here.
See the wonder here.
Tired but happy
Eoin
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