Posted in Acquisitions, Authors, Blogging, Publishing on October 30, 2007 | No Comments »
From the the horse’s mouth
Declan Burke has gotten a US deal for his excellent The Big O:
it has come to pass that the lovely people at Harcourt have in their infinite wisdom decided that THE BIG O is as good a tax deductible as any, and will be putting it between covers in the very [...]
Posted in Amazon.co.uk, Books, Bookselling, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Publishing, tagged Anne Enright, Booker Prize, Sales on October 24, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
UPDATE: ANOTHER 5,198 COPIES IN THE WEEK TO 27th OCTOBER!!!
Well Done Anne
Here is an interesting one. Despite the negative vibes that have been put out about the Booker not driving sales and how the Booker chooses bad books, Anne Enright sold 5,481 copies in Ireland in the week to October 20th according to Bookscan* [...]
Posted in Publishing on October 24, 2007 | No Comments »
RIGHT NOW HERE
For the Annual Amnesty Ireland Lecture.
Posted in Amazon.co.uk, Books, Bookselling, Easons, tagged Books, Bookselling, Christmas, Easons on October 24, 2007 | No Comments »
Eoin Purcell
credit where it is due
Easons have upgraded their website in time for Christmas. The search function is better (though still not great) and browsing is a lot better. They even offer a review feature which makes a very nice change to the static sites of the past (even if Amazon have had such features [...]
Posted in Authors, Books, Irish Publishing, Publishing, tagged Authors, Awards, Glen Dimplex, Irish-Language, New Writers, Prizes on October 24, 2007 | No Comments »
Eoin Purcell
I may have mentioned some time ago
That I was at the launch of Bibeanna: Memories from a Corner of Ireland pretty soon after I joined Mercier.
Well, now we have just heard some absolutely great news. Brenda Ní Shúilleabháin has been nominated for the Glen Dimplex New Writers Award in the Irish-language category. Yippee!
Congratulations [...]
Posted in Blogging, The Bookseller on October 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Posted this morning over at the Bookseller:
A New Business Model?
Please comment, it looks all lonely there.
Eoin
PS: Speaking of Business Models, check out Hags Head Press and their model. Oh and while you are at it, read the blog of their author Declan Burke which I called Crime Always Pays!
Posted in Books, Bookselling, History, Publishing, tagged Books, Bookselling, Christmas on October 18, 2007 | No Comments »
Eoin Purcell
Bookshops and booksales
I spent a lot of time over the weekend and the early part of the week in bookshops. They are crazy. It feels like christmas has started early. There is no evidence to support this really. Maybe it will show in the bookscan figures next week but overall Bookscan doesn’t seem [...]
Posted in Books, Bookselling, DailyLit, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Publishing, Publishing Innovation, Reading, e-books, e-letter, e-mail, e-paper, e-publishing, e-text on October 15, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
The Bookseller reports:
DailyLit, the service that delivers daily installments of books via email or RSS feeds, has launched its Pay-Per-Read program. Thanks to agreements with publishers including Perseus Books Group, the University of Michigan Press, The Globe Pequot Press, E-Reads and Baen Books, readers can get installments of new and bestselling titles in addition [...]
Posted in AuthorHouse, Authors, Books, Bookselling, Future of Publishing, Print On Demand, Publishing, Self Publishing, Writing, tagged AuthorHouse, Authorservices, POD, Self Publishing on October 10, 2007 | No Comments »
Eoin Purcell
Three month old deals re-emerge
PODdy Mouth - Daily Dirt on POD and Self-Publishing has an interesting piece advising AuthorServices who to buy next following their acquisition of iUniverse.
Of course, not missing a trick, Poddy also points out that this is genius re-selling of old PR! Reading the Bookseller you might not know that!
For my [...]
Posted in Acquisitions, Agents, Authors, Books, Bookselling, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, HarperCollins, e-publishing, e-submissions, tagged Reading, Authonomy.com, Submissions, Slush Pile, Editing on October 10, 2007 | 14 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
What is it?
The bookseller news item has the full breakdown (see below) but you can read some more here on MSN and a bit of analysis here:
Authonomy, at www.authonomy.com, will initially be rolled out by HCUK in early 2008, with the intention of it becoming a global programme in the future. The site will [...]
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