Posted in Blogging, Blogroll, Personal, Publishing on July 31, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
Litlove tagged me. As I tagged her recently it would be rude not to post so here goes:
1) To make sense of a confusing period of change in Publishing: By far the most important reason for me is to sort ideas in my mind, write them down have others discuss/argue them and basically make [...]
Posted in Blogging, Books, Future of Books, Future of Media, Future of Publishing, Publishing, Publishing Innovation, blog to book, blooks, e-books, e-data, e-magazines, e-paper, e-publishing, e-text on July 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
I was lead to this video & blog by the continuing debate I mentioned previously and which Mark Thwaite of the Book Depository (I love shopping there and intend to shop there more) continues on The Booksellers new blog section.
Now the system strikes me as like xFruits, a similar service that has launched to [...]
Posted in Acquisitions, Agents, Blogging, Books, Digital Records, Exact Editions, Future of Books, Future of Media, Future of Publishing, Future of Writimg, Publishing, Publishing Innovation, Writing, blooks, data, e-data, e-magazines, e-paper, e-publishing, e-text, if:book on July 25, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
You can generally trust O’Reilly to get their priority right
And so it was today. When all anyone else seemed to want to talk about was this, they were considering the merits of CommentPress 1.0 [a new tool from The Institute for the Future of the Book] as:
a potentially significant evolution in blogging architecture
*For [...]
Posted in Books, Bookselling, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Marketing, Publishing, Read, Readers, Retailing, Waterstones on July 23, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
The art of selling
Selling Harry Potter takes no work for a bookseller. Yeah they can open at 12-midnight and have a show with owls, yes they can sell it for the incredible price of €8.99 but at the end of the day most people who buy Harry Potter were going to buy it anyway, [...]
Posted in Books, Digital Records, Libraries, LibraryThing, Publishing, data aggregation, e-data, social networks on July 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Eoin Purcell
Call me stupid
But when I signed up for LibraryThing I never really considered the positive effects of the social aspect. Silly me. I guess because I am not a huge convert to social networks (Facebook being the only one to hold my attention for long but still never sucking up the hours social networking [...]
Posted in Books, Bookselling, Companies & Organisations, Easons, Ireland, Irish Publishing, Publishing on July 18, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
Why Easons is important
If you work in publishing in Ireland, you have to work with Easons. I say that, not to attack them or to slight them, it is simply fact. Easons stores are located in nearly every major urban centre from Athlone to Roscommon and nearly everywhere in between.
But it is not [...]
Posted in Authors, Books, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Ireland, Irish Publishing, Publishing, Publishing People on July 17, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The Irish publishing world appears to be stuck in a parochial rut and perhaps this is due, at least in part, to its being subvented so graciously by the Arts Council.
FRED JOHNSTON
The problems faced by Irish publishers are not chiefly, as Desmond Fennell argues, a lack of enterprise or imagination on the part of [...]
Posted in Acquisitions, Books, Business, Companies & Organisations, Digital Records, Educational Publishing, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Harcourt Trade, HoughtonMifflin, Reed Elsevier, Riverdeep, e-data, e-publishing on July 16, 2007 | No Comments »
Eoin Purcell
Talk about Doubling Down
This really is a remarkable move by Riverdeep & Houghton Mifflin (now one and the same since Riverdeep acquired Houghton Mifflin late last year): Publishers Weekly, Reuters/Yahoo News, Bloomberg and a bit of blog reaction from Martyn Daniels.
From the HoughtonMifflin’s own press release:
The combination of Houghton Mifflin’s and Harcourt’s elementary, secondary [...]
Posted in Amazon.co.uk, Books, Bookselling, Business, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Ireland, Irish Publishing, Marketing, Publishing on July 16, 2007 | No Comments »
Eoin Purcell
Staggered release windows are so last century. We want it all now, baby, we want it today. Why, as books are competing with so many other forms of media, would the publishing industry want to create a vacuum where one needs not exist?
Booksquare have it right
The quote above is only part of a much [...]
Posted in Amazon.co.uk, Authors, Blogging, Books, Digital Records, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Future of Writimg, Librarians, Libraries, O'Reilly, Publishing, Publishing Innovation, blog to book, blooks, e-data, e-publishing, if:book on July 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Eoin Purcell
The unstoppable power of Richard and Judy as seen and told by the The Friday Project people.
Here & Here
Frankly one of the finest and clear sighted (not to mention fantastically brief) discussion of the current state of writing:
With the rise of the web, writing has met its photography. By that I mean, writing has [...]
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