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Monthly Archives: August 2007
Bookstores slow descent
Eoin Purcell Bookshop doom For all the worry and chatter in the publishing and bookselling world, Scott Karp’s post today really strikes to the heart of the current dilemma bookshops face: I used to love bookstores — they were magical … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookselling, Future of Books, Future of Media, Future of Publishing
Tagged Publishing Companies
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Createspace & More Book Depository
Eoin Purcell Amazon as publisher Createspace has been launched by Amazon and there is M-U-C-H discussion of it. It combines the power of a Lulu.com or a Blurb.com with Amazon retail prowess. It could be a game changer except that … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Books, Bookselling, Business, Distribution, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Innovation
Tagged Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, Book Depository, Business, Distribution, e-publishing, Mark Thwaite, POD to Mainstream, Print, Print On Demand, Publishing Companies, The long Tail
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LibraryThing’s Tag Mirror
Eoin Purcell Simply described as: Tag Mirror: What LibraryThing thinks eoinpurcell is interested in this is a pretty impressive feature and one that is of enormous use to just about everyone from publishers to readers. Check out my Tag Mirror … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Future of Books
Tagged data, data aggregation, Digital Records, e-data, Libraries, LibraryThing
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The Book Depository & BibDib
Eoin Purcell The Book Depository Updated Its site today and it does look prettier and smoother to use. Which makes me happy as the Book Depository has become my bookshop of choice. One of the best things about the book … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookselling, Innovation, Reading
Tagged Book Depository, data, data aggregation, Digital Records, e-data, LibraryThing, Mark Thwaite, Publishing Companies, Reading
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Links of Interest (At Least to Me) 20/08/2007
Eoin Purcell Rowling Write Again (by all accounts) Here Graham Linehan has a blog (hat tip to commenters on PresentTense for the link) Here TheBookseller, the industry magazine of booksellers and publishers has a nice new blog section which I … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Books, Bookselling
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