Posted in Authors, Books, Bookselling, Copyright, Ireland, Libraries, Public Lending Right, Publishing, Read, Readers, Reading on September 27, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
Sometimes the EU makes Ireland adopt stupid laws:
Like this one. Public Lending Right is one of those bad ideas that has just become too big to stop, no matter how valid the argument against it. Now I know it comes as surprise to most people to hear a publisher resist the extension of copyright [...]
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Eoin Purcell
ByeBye Charkinblog
Times they are a changing. Bloomsbury announced that Richard Charkin will join them as executive Director on 1st October:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc has today appointed Richard Charkin an Executive
Director of the Company with effect from 1 October 2007.
Richard joins the team with responsibility for operations worldwide and with
particular focus on spearheading growth through acquisitions, [...]
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Posted in Authors, Authors Etc., Blogging, Future of Writing, HarperCollins, Publishing, e-data, e-publishing, tagged Books, Writing, Publishing, Author Blogs, HarperCollins on September 25, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
AuthorAssistant
This just may be the smartest move by a mainstream publisher in some time. The Bookseller has an article on the new site here. The bones of the idea is helpfully given by HC’s corporate press release:
enables authors to create and post information, images and links quickly and easily. This new author network is [...]
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Eoin Purcell
Not so long ago David McWilliams gave the Irish book industry a real kicking an walked away with huge sales and great hype with: The Pope’s Children (Published by Gill & MacMillan)
Now he is kicking the whole economy (and it needs it) with The Generation Game> Some frankly terrifying lines from todays second episode [...]
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Posted in Books, Bookselling, Digital Records, Exact Editions, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Publishing, Publishing Innovation, e-books, e-data, e-publishing, e-text, tagged eaxact editions, online books, digital texts, online book search, book tools, on September 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Eoin purcell
And Google should be worried
Had time allowed this week, i was hoping to do a quick comparison of online book services. As it happens I am glad I didn’t have that time because Adam Hodgkin over at Exact Editions has announced something I have know about but not been able to talk about for [...]
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Posted in Amazon.co.uk, Book Depository, Books, Bookselling, Publishing, Random House, tagged Authors, Books, Bookselling, Discworld, Publishing, Random House, rBooks, Release Dates, Retail, Selling, Terry Pratchett, Trade, Writing on September 22, 2007 | No Comments »
Eoin Purcell
I don’t normally complain
But this really got me thinking today:
I opened an account at rBooks just to see what it was like. I have mentioned the service before. I inidcated that I was a huge Terry Pratchett fan and when my home-page opened I was offered a massive discount on Making Money his latest [...]
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Posted in Books, Bookselling, Borders on September 21, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
Big news
From The Bookseller:
Borders UK and Ireland has been sold to Channel 4 chairman Luke Johnson’s Risk Capital Partners for a £10m up front cash payment plus an additional deferred £10m cash consideration. Borders Group will retain an equity interest of around 17% in the business
In time for the Christmas rush!
Eoin
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Eoin Purcell
Robert Jordan RIP
This is remarkably clever
LibraryThing have responded to Google’s My Library effort with this:
Google Book Search Search is a bookmarklet that searches Google Book Search for the titles in your LibraryThing library. It works not unlike the famous SETI@Home project. You set it up and searches Google Book Search slowly in the background.* [...]
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I’m heading to Galway today to talk with the student of this course/ I’m looking forward to it, but I’m alway strangely nervous!
Then next week it is off to the UK for this course. Busy few days really.
Hoping I get some rest this weekend
Eoin
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Posted in Agents, Authors, Books, Clé, Future of Writing, Ireland, Irish Publishing, Librarians, Libraries, Publishing, Publishing People, Read, Readers, Reading on September 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
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Thurles library is amazing
It sits just over the bridge and has the most incredible look, feel and atmosphere. A fountain throws shoots of water into the air midstream, there is a riverside walkway and the concrete and steel build looks so european and yet seems to belong in a town that has changed little [...]
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