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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 places where the whole world of information and stories was at your fingertips. But I realized today that [...]

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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 the cost per unit remains stubbornly high. As the Petrona blog spells out:
Amazon’s share of each sale is [...]

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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 here
There is much more in Tim’s blog post here:
Tag Mirror “holds a mirror” up to your books [...]

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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 depository is Mark Thwaite’s blog, Editor’s Corner. Mark writes great stuff and you should read it if [...]

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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 think deserves a plug. Check out todays two great pieces.
Here & Here
Premonition is just not worth the effort (though has [...]

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This, frankly is deeply impressive. Thanks The Long Now Foundation for leading me into something that I fear will obsess me for some time! We always think we are so new and original in our thinking and we forget how old the concepts and ideas we are working with actually are. This is a [...]

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Michael Hyatt buys an iphone (I want me one of those, I’d even buy out my phone contract for it too!)
Here
Harper Collins gets all cute with the iphone and their browse inside widget (Why always a marketing tool??)
Here
Snowcasing (Why are those Snowbooks people so very smart? Who knows but go them!)
Here & Here
The Postal [...]

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TheBookseller.com carries a great blog from Anna Rafferty the digital marketing director of Penguin. Line of the piece:
Months of workshops, designing, testing and re-designing later and we’re happy that we’ve shifted our site from being a company on broadcast to being genuinely reader-centric.
Go read it here.
Eoin

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You can almost seeing it in a book just to make a point.
From Melissa Worden’s blog Via Journerdiam
Just finished Andrew Keen’s The Cult of the Amateur. Nice review here.
Eoin

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How Strange
The Freakonomics blog moved yesterday from its own dedicated site to a new home at the New York Times. Stephen Dubner has a long post explaining the reasons here.
I guess we should not be too surprised. The value of a site and community like Freakonomics is very clear. The monetizing potential must be [...]

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