Monthly Archives: March 2007

Scribd looks cool

Eoin Purcell Multi-authored Text Experiments with wiki-text, networked books and multi-authored texts have been going well. Penguin have had the most high profile effort with their Million Penguins wikinovel. Last week I highlighted Ficlets which takes the idea of multi-authored … Continue reading

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20 Major’s book deal

Eoin Purcell Depressing & Excellent One of my favourite blogs Twenty Major (Tagline: Still Smoking in Dublin’s Bars) has, if Sinead Gleeson is to be belived, gotten a two book deal with Hodder Headline. One half of me is really … Continue reading

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Even digital aint safe

Eoin Purcell Future History Last week I mentioned this article that was conerned over the future of non-commercial items trapped in non-digital formats. This weekend the FT has an really excellent long feature on protecting our current digital heritage. From … Continue reading

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Irish Book Award 2007

Eoin Purcell Slow coming but worth the wait One of the successful developments in Irish Publishing recently has been the evolution of a truly national and truly useful book awards. The Irish Book Awards were held last night in Dublin … Continue reading

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Ficlets seems cool to me~ What do you think?

Eoin Purcell Thanks to James @ BookTwo for directing me here. And via Open Access this is cool too. Eoin

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