Eoin Purcell
I’d like to say I saw this coming
But that would not be true. In fact it is only in retrospect that the obviousness and the attractiveness of this type of deal is evident. The Bookseller has details:
Random House is to set up a book club with supermarket chain Tesco. Tesco will select one Random [...]
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Eoin Purcell
From Long Tail author Chris Anderson:
BookTour Where authors and audiences meet.
Intrigued
Eoin
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Eoin Purcell
I may be biased but:
The RTE Election 2007 site has really triumphed for me this election. Firstly I am listening to the radio coverage (far superior to the television coverage) and watching the studio on web cam. That in itself was great but by far the best feature has been the liberal use of [...]
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Eoin Purcell
The more they do the more I like
It is funny that I mentioned Random House Uk yesterday, because today they feature too. LibraryThing has launched a lovely new feature called LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
It’s a pretty Funky Dory idea. I kinda hope it expands. Tim says:
Members should understand what this is, and what it isn’t. [...]
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Posted in Amazon.co.uk, Books, Bookselling, Business, Companies & Organisations, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Publishing, Publishing Innovation, Random House on May 22, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
Call me crazy but . . .
I don’t pretend to be privy to anything that goes on at Random House UK but I was searching through their rather excellent new online bookstore: rbooks, can you find their imprints listed there? I can’t. Which is odd because for all the books listed on their front [...]
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Eoin Purcell
Then you will love this:
It is just something else.
Eoin
Via Kottke
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Check out the independents new look: Here
And the editors post abut it: Here
They actually want comments:
We’d also like to hear more from you - now you can post a comment on a selection of thought-provoking articles.
‘Today’s Paper’ enables you to browse through each day’s edition of the newspaper while additional content from our sister titles [...]
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Eoin Purcell
Even the greatest lover of books has doubts
Whenever I doubt the vibrancy of my industry I take a tour of bookshops. It is amazing to see the difference between stores. Some are old, dark and smell unmistakably of books, others are bright, warm and air conditioned smelling only of the expensive coffee baristas are [...]
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Posted in Acquisitions, Books, Business, Future of Books, Future of Media, Future of Publishing, Librarians, Libraries, Networked Books, Non-Fiction, Publishing, Publishing Innovation, e-publishing on May 14, 2007 | No Comments »
Eoin Purcell
The Thomson Sales
Thomson sells its Thomson Learning division for $7.75 billion or £3.9 billion depending on your currency. Not only is this a great deal more than was originally floated, it is also a huge boost for Thomson’s $17.6 billion mooted bid for Reuters. An interesting piece by Personanondata gives some detail:
It was approximately [...]
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Eoin Purcell
Being in books that is
Not least because you meet people who are also in books and you get to talk about them (the books). Now, if you are as nerdy about books as I am you will enjoy something like SlowFire, an initiative led by James Bridle from the wonderful Snowbooks. I have long [...]
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