Posted in Amazon.co.uk, Scribd, cool, e-data, e-paper, e-publishing, ebooks, ficlets, multi-author, user generated content, wiki-text, wikinovel on March 25, 2007 | No Comments »
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 texts to a news slick level allowing prequels and sequels to already written shorts [Speaking of which [...]
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Posted in Acquisitions, Authors, Books, Bookselling, Future of Media, Future of Publishing, Publishing, Trend Vs Fad Watch, Writer, blog to book, blooks on March 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »
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 happy and the other sad becuase there is little chance of me competing with Headline for those books [...]
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Posted in Books, Business, Digital Records, Librarians, Libraries, Media & News, Publishing, e-data, e-paper, e-publishing, ebooks, user generated content on March 18, 2007 | No Comments »
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 the piece:
Like Leonardo da Vinci’s notebook, love-letters between Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, and John Lennon’s [...]
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Posted in Authors, Awards, Books, Bookselling, Business, Future of Publishing, Ireland, Oprah, Publishing, Ricahrd & Judy on March 16, 2007 | 6 Comments »
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 and the winners were:
Novel of the Year: ‘Winterwood’ by Patrick McCabe.
Popular Fiction Book of the Year: ‘Should [...]
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Posted in Publishing on March 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Eoin Purcell
Thanks to James @ BookTwo for directing me here.
And via Open Access this is cool too.
Eoin
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Eoin Purcell
And Google Serve some really good ones up today
In what has to be my all time favourite Inside Google Book Search post, relatively new Google employee Mathew Grey says:
We’ve all seen views of the Earth from space, where the numerous pinpoints of light on the ground combine to yield a speckled map of the [...]
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Eoin Purcell
From the BookSeller Bulletin
I was reading over the daily e-mail I get as part of my Bookseller subscription (Not extortionate and quite valuable) and this caught my eye:
Canongate has bought UK rights in The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama, a leading Democrat contender for the nomination to run for US President. In the [...]
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Posted in Future of Books, Future of Media, Future of Publishing, Google Book Search, History, Microsoft Live Book Search, Print, Publishing, Publishing Innovation, data, e-data, e-publishing, ebooks on March 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Eoin Purcell
Make it this one
Tyhe New Yok Times has an incredible piece on digitisation of historial records which will I think put into perspective everyone’s thoughts on the subject. The money quotes:
At the Library of Congress, for example, despite continuing and ambitious digitization efforts, perhaps only 10 percent of the 132 million objects held will [...]
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Posted in Future of Media, Future of Publishing, Media & News, Pearson, Penguin, Publishing Innovation, Tech & Web stuff, The Economist, Writing, e-publishing on March 9, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
Project Red Stripe
Maybe its the inter-company rivallry (what with a million penguins at penguin) in the Pearson stable (though they only own 50%), maybe its just a heady year or two in media but THIS is definitely a cool idea:
We’re a small team set up by The Economist Group, the parent company of the [...]
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Eoin Purcell
One hour and thirty-nine minutes
That was the time it took Tim Spalding, founder of LibraryThing to respond personally to my post on the news of data sales and commercial usage. I posted at 12.17pm GMT and he e-mailed me at 1.46pm GMT! What is more he invited me into a dialogue and offered a [...]
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