Eoin Purcell
Probably*
Just reading a rather nice review of 2007 from the lovely people at Fidra Books who I have been admiring from afar for some time (Blog is here and main publishing page here):
At no point did I say that I wanted us to buy a shop and open a bookshop or start developing a [...]
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Eoin Purcell
The assassination doesn’t stop commerce it seems:
BOOK publisher HarperCollins, which just received the manuscript for Benazir Bhutto’s upcoming book, is now moving quickly to get it on the shelves by February following yesterday’s assassination of the former Pakistani prime minister.
Source: The New York Post
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Long sentences alert!
In what is rapidly becoming a tradition Blathnaid and I bake a mountain of mince pies from scratch (including making our very own mince meat). This year we threw in some gingerbread men (and women, not to mention children), sugar cookies, macaroons, pecan fingers and in spite of my bad handling of the [...]
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Posted in Publishing, tagged Christma, Holiday on December 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Eoin Purcell
The best of the season to all.
I’ll kick back into gear in the new year.
Eoin
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Eoin Purcell
I wrote a little while ago about how well Anne Enright is selling here
And how bad here reception was in the UK (She gets dissed again here). I though, it being the season of good cheer, that I’d update again and the result is stunning. Enright has sold some 34,000 books and generated over [...]
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Eoin Purcell
It seems Amazon have bough the JK Rowling book for a truly exceptional sum. They have posted images of the book online here
The story on Bloomberg here and The Bookseller here
Pretty stunning news
Eoin
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Posted in Authors, Books, News, tagged News, Terry Pratchett on December 12, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
Terry Pratchett diagnosed with rare form of Alzheimer’s
Just terrible news. But he seems to be taking it well:
We are taking it fairly philosophically down here and possibly with a mild optimism. For now work is continuing on the completion of Nation and the basic notes are already being laid down for Unseen Academicals. [...]
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Eoin Purcell
If you are the bah humbug type* this post will annoy you
With only 14 shopping days left till Christmas I thought it might be nice to supply a few of my recommended books (With legitimate exceptions) for all. Listed in order of enjoyment/recently enjoyed by my count and expected enjoyment for others (a complicated [...]
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Posted in Amazon.com, Authors, Books, Content, Distribution, Future of Books, Future of Media, Future of Publishing, Future of Writing, Links of Interest, Publishing Innovation, e-books, e-paper, e-publishing, tagged Books, Publishing, Future, Death of the Publisher on December 10, 2007 | No Comments »
Eoin Purcell
Jeff Jarvis has an interesting comment on the Reuters/IHT deal which was announced today. Cannot help but think that this is one of those Love it or Hate it Deals.
Here
A very nice review of one of my favourite authors, Philip Reeve (of The Mortal Engines Quartet)
Here
Scott Karp at Publishing 2.0 has a nice piece [...]
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Posted in Publishing on December 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Eoin Purcell
I’m in the US and A for a little holiday.
Specifically in EVANSTON, a lovely town in Illinois. Looking forward to Amaranth books, Barnes and Noble, Borders and all the rest. Back in December. Blogging will be very very light.
My first Irish column in The Bookseller is on the International Page of the 30/11/2007 [...]
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