Posted in Authors, Books, Bookselling, Future of Publishing, Lulu.com, Publishing, Self Publishing, The How To, Vanity Publishing, Writer, Writing, blurb.com on January 22, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
First decide what it is you want:
I have written before on the importance of knowing what you want from a book before deciding what route is the best option for you to take. I wanted to restate the case by pointing people in the direction of a service that I have stumbled across over [...]
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Eoin Purcell
I cannot wait.
I promised not to buy more books until I have completed my massive To Be Read pile (about 50 books right now) but after seeing this really great news today I think I’ll break that rule on April 17th 2007!
Looking forward to a great read
Eoin
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Eoin Purcell
“Over My Dead Body”
Is what Brandrepublic.com quote Marjorie Scardino as saying in response to rumours of a sale of Pearson. It makes for a great story and indeed there is a good deal of coverage.
It is a frightening thought that there is so much cash sloshing about (the rumoured price tag is 7 Billion [...]
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Posted in Amazon.com, Authors, Books, Business, Distribution, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Losers, Lulu.com, Print On Demand, Publishing, Publishing Careers, Publishing Innovation, Publishing People, Self Publishing, Winners, Writing, e-publishing on January 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Eoin Purcell
Loser
The far too late reading of blog posts brought to mind the adage that the world is a funny place. On one blog [Galleycat, who picked the news up here] I read of the end of ReganBooks at HarperCollins:
This afternoon, HarperCollins announced that effective immediately, the ReganBooks name and logo will no longer be [...]
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Eoin Purcell
[Via Charkin Blog and Mediabistro's Galleycat]
It will be interesting to see what this means for the trade. There is a long peice here for the details.
Realizing that January is not a ‘downtime’ month
Eoin
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Posted in Books, Bookselling, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Print, Print On Demand, Publishing, Publishing Innovation, Reading, Tech & Web stuff, Trend Vs Fad Watch, e-paper, e-publishing, ebooks on January 9, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
[via Ryan Sholin's blog (well worth reading by the way)]
Wow
Red Herring reports on a huge investment by Oak Investment Partners and Tudor Investment Corporation in an e-paper venture:
In one of the largest venture capital rounds in European history, Plastic Logic announced Wednesday that it had raised $100 million to build a factory in [...]
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Posted in Books, Bookselling, Business, Companies & Organisations, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Libraries, Publishing, Publishing Innovation, Trend Vs Fad Watch on January 8, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
Predictions
I am not big on predictions, certainly not in the sense of being able to predict what will happen in a given year. That is why I really enjoyed this post on PersonaNonData today. There is a lot to what he is saying but one of the key paragraphs is this:
In publishing, social networking, [...]
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Eoin Purcell
book/daddy (A new find for me) has a great but unsettling post about exactly how rare it is to find stimulating book chat in your daily life. I have taken a large chunk from the piece but it is much better in the whole:
Actually, books have rarely been a topic of conversation in offices [...]
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Posted in Books, Publishing, Reading on January 1, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
Terry Whalin has some interesting stuff on reading and what can be achieved in a year with small efforts!
Here
This in particular scares me:
* If you read five books on one subject, you are one of the world’s foremost leading authorities on that subject
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Posted in Books, Bookselling, Business, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Google Book Search, Lulu.com, Microsoft Live Book Search, Print, Print On Demand, Publishing, Publishing Innovation, e-publishing, ebooks on January 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Eoin Purcell
Bookstore Demo Video
Richard Charkin CEO of Macmillan linked today to a very sweet demo of the forthcoming Bookstore technology. Macmillan subsidiary MPS Technologies is behind the product which will be launched in 2007. The merits of the scheme aside (at first glance it offers a great degree of control of publishers of e-content while [...]
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