Posted in Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, Authors, Books, Bookselling, Future of Media, Future of Publishing, Publishing, Read, Readers, Reading, Waterstones, Writer on June 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Eoin Purcell
When you get it really right
Waterstone’s have been pushing to make their online store a site worth visiting for a little while now. They only recently broke away from their amazon link up so I was pleasantly surprised when I came across this page.
Yes it is a promotional page and yes it is designed [...]
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Eoin Purcell
Over at Assignment Zero (A crowd sourcing News initiative which I encourage you to check out separately anyway) there is some good analysis of the debate about amateurs and professionals drawing together a few different schools of opinion and making what is the key point in my view:
But the debate seemed like a red [...]
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Eoin Purcell
Brief but interesting post from the editors corner @ The Book Depository:
Here
Loads more but I’m rushing today!
Eoin
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Eoin Purcell
I have yet to read the book (damned if I’m linking to it), but I will. If I find it is as bad as the author interviews suggest I will say more. If, as I think unlikely, I change my mind I will say so, loudly!
Andrew Keen
It would be very difficult for me to [...]
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Eoin Purcell
Its not quite my thing: Aerosmith
But they do put on a fantastic show. I saw them last night in Marlay Park in South Dublin. The weather held and the band seem to be moving into Rolling Stones territory in terms of ability to just keep on Rocking (as it were).
What struck me on [...]
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Posted in Acquisitions, Agents, Authors, Books, Bookselling, Fiction, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Niches, Non-Fiction, Publishing, Publishing Careers, Publishing Innovation, Writer, Writing on June 25, 2007 | No Comments »
Eoin Purcell
The doom first
Who wouldn’t be depress by reading this (Reg Required) article in The Bookseller (but actually a cull from The Herald which is free online and here):
The result? Publishers can no longer afford to take chances and authors who have enjoyed modest successes over many years are suddenly being dropped in favour of [...]
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Posted in Books, Bookselling, Chris Anderson, Distribution, Future of Books, Future of Media, Future of Publishing, Networked Books, O'Reilly, POD to Mainstream, Print, Print On Demand, Publishing, Publishing Innovation, Publishing People, Selling, The long Tail, blog to book, blooks, blurb.com, e-data, e-paper, e-publishing, e-text on June 20, 2007 | No Comments »
Eoin Purcell
If you weren’t enormously envious of everyone at TOC before now . . .
(And personally I was) then you will be now. It is not just that everyone who is anyone is going, its that the discussions sound so wonderful too.
For instance the POD discussion covered on the O’Reilly XML.com pages by Simon [...]
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Posted in Acquisitions, Agents, Authors, Books, Bookselling, Future of Publishing, HarperCollins, Hodder, Ireland, Irish Publishing, Penguin, Publishing, Publishing Careers, Random House on June 19, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
It’s a compliment really
That so many of the large publishers have Irish office here. Penguin run a neat little operation that has launched some great Fiction and Non-Fiction, as does Hodder. MacMillan has Gill&MacMillan an arrangement that gives Gill the best of both worlds, an independent publishing strategy with multi-national back up.
It is [...]
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Eoin Purcell
That’s what friends are for
One of my good friends is a person I have huge admiration for. I doubt he realises how much, as he spends a good deal of time looking outward and comparing himself to others, rather than taking stock of how much he has actually done in his life.
One of [...]
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Eoin Purcell
There are good reasons why some magazines should be completely Open Access — many scientific periodicals have moved to this model of distribution. They now have to pay their costs by levying a charge from the contributors or sponsors of the research reported. Also, Open Access makes complete sense for magazines which are essentially [...]
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