Posted in Acquisitions, Agents, Amazon.co.uk, Authors, Blogging, LibraryThing, Media & News, Non-Fiction, Personal, Print On Demand, Publishing Innovation, Submissions, blooks, if:book on April 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Eoin Purcell
Reading Fiction
Is a surprisingly large part of my job. Although Mercier only publishes a very few fiction titles and those are of a very good standard (For Example), many of the submissions we get are fiction so for the first time I am reading fiction with a critical eye (i.e. Is it good? Can [...]
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Eoin Purcell
Good News? For Who?
The Bookseller (login required) reported today that the program I mentioned previously is coming to the UK (& Ireland??):
The programme will begin in the UK on 21st May with Fourth Estate’s title A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah. The harrowing book has sold over 93,000 [...]
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Posted in Acquisitions, Agents, Authors, Books, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, POD to Mainstream, Print, Print On Demand, Publishing, Publishing Innovation, Self Publishing, Selling, cool on April 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Eoin Purcell
Preempting self published books
This kind of event is rare so i do not think Publishers Weekly will mind me block quoting the article:
Sourcebooks Preempts Self-Pubbed Kids Book
by Lynn Andriani
Sourcebooks has just acquired a children’s hardcover title that has sold 179,000 copies since the authors self-published it in 2001. I Love You More, a rhyming [...]
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Eoin Purcell
This is worth linking to despite the brevity. The situation with sophie
Sophie
is an open-source platform for creating and reading electronic books for the networked environment.
And is just about the ost exciting thing I have been waiitng on for some time. I think it will change utterly the ideas I discussed in my earlier [...]
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Posted in Authors, Copyright, Future of Books, Future of Media, Future of Publishing, Publishing, Publishing Innovation, Readers, Reading, Writing, blooks, data, data aggregation, e-data, e-paper, e-publishing, e-text, text, wiki-text, wikinovel on April 2, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
A million undirected penguins
What do Wikipedia and A Million Penguins have in common? At first glance little. But on thinking it through there is one feature that makes them almost identical. They are created by a distributed authorship model. One is one of the most useful sites on the internet (its scale is huge [...]
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