Monthly Archives: April 2007

Change: What’s been taking up my time

Posted on April 22, 2007 by Eoin Purcell

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 … Continue reading →

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Starbucks Selling books in Europe too!!

Posted on April 5, 2007 by Eoin Purcell

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 … Continue reading →

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Every self-published authors dream

Posted on April 4, 2007 by Eoin Purcell

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 … Continue reading →

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Sophie: A Timeline

Posted on April 2, 2007 by Eoin Purcell

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 … Continue reading →

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The future of online text

Posted on April 2, 2007 by Eoin Purcell

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 … Continue reading →

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