Eoin Purcell
I’m quite pleased with how this came out in the end.
The Irish blook
29.01.08
Blogging has been brewing up a media storm in the Irish media. Two weeks ago, well known commentator, John Waters, attacked the entire blogosphere on Newstalk, one of Ireland’s talk radio stations.
Following the lead of Andrew Keen in his book The Cult [...]
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Eoin Purcell
Irish Blog Awards
Very surprised and very pleased to have been nominated and to have made the Leaked Long List for the Irish Blog Awards* in the Specialist Category!
Smile on my face today,
Eoin
*Speaking of which the process of authoritative leaks of many of the long lists has been a very clever ruse for building attention. [...]
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Posted in Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, Bookselling, Covers, Future of Books, Future of Media, Future of Publishing, Irish Publishing, e-books, e-publishing on January 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Eoin Purcell
James Bridle always has interesting stuff to say and today’s point is as well made as ever.
Here
When we are on the topic it would be a shame not to mention today’s excellent post about e-book pricing on The Digitalist.
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Oh and on the blogger and books Damien Mulley has an interview with controversial blogger Twenty [...]
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Eoin Purcell
So I spilled the cash for The Friday Project’s tasty looking special edition of The Equivoque Principle and boy does it look sweet. I cobbled together a few pictures into a little video:
Sorry about the naff music, I’m still learning with these slideshows and what not!
Next time I’ll get it right!
I’ll have to hold [...]
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Posted in Acquisitions, Amazon.co.uk, Authors, Books, Bookselling, Business, Commissioning, Community, Copyright, Publishing, e-books, e-publishing, tagged Books, Publishing, Sales, Innovation on January 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Eoin Purcell
Mike Shatzkin* is clever
If you doubt that, read some of this article [hat tip: Joe Wikert's Kindleville]. There are so many great ideas there that I almost don’t know where to start.
But I have to because it is so interesting
And two do stand out as being very interesting because one is a trend that [...]
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Walmart hits magazine publishers with a bit of a whammy.
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Nice post from Lessig on ideas and the future.
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Blurb seems to be rocking the self publishing boat pretty impressively.
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How cool are Flickr and the Library of Congress? I wish our own museums and libraries had such an approach.
Here
I’m testing out how well Google Docs works [...]
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Eoin Purcell
The video is relevant but more on that below:
I don’t know how I missed this but The Editor’s Corner at The Book Depository has a wonderful interview with one of my favourite History writer: Ian Mortimer. Pick of the words (though I’d like to write more later on some of the great lines to [...]
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Eoin Purcell
Some great words from a site the provides some of the best resources out there on the web for the current US Presidential scramble, Electoral-Vote.com:
The Republican side is tomorrow and too close to call. However, if Fred Thompson comes in 4th, it’s curtains for Fred. He’ll probably drop out immediately, saying some variant of [...]
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Posted in Articles & Series, Authors, Authors Etc., Book Depository, Books, Bookselling, Distribution, Future of Books, Future of Media, Future of Publishing, Future of Writing, Networked Books, Print to Digital, Print to Web, Publishing, Publishing Innovation, Writing, e-books, e-data, e-paper, e-publishing on January 15, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
*UPDATED TO REPAIR LINKS: NOTE TO SELF: VOODOO PAD HAS SOME LIMITS*
From Consciousness to publishers survival
Yesterday I wrote about consciousness and how the “new” consciousness we see rising is an illusion in my view. It was all kicked off by this article and so it makes sense to go back to the elements in [...]
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Eoin Purcell
Homework
Emma over at Snowblog set some homework. She asked people to read this piece by Mark Booth over at The Independent online and to discuss it. I’ve much to say on it but for today I’d like to hit on CONSCIOUSNESS. To give you a good idea of what it’s about here’s a quote:
The [...]
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