Posted in Books, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Future of Writing, Networked Books, Penguin, Publishing, Publishing Innovation, e-books, e-paper, e-publishing, e-submissions, e-text, multi-author on February 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Interesting
Not happy with the biggest and bravest attempt at storytelling experiments, A Million Penguins (Discussed on this blog here & here), Penguin are going to take another crack at it with a new site and a new project. I signed up for the project here:Pengrin
Not sure what it means, but Jeremy Ettinghausen, Penguin’s Digital Publisher [...]
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Posted in film, french on February 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Cork French Film Festival
I should have mentioned this before now and several people beat me too it but it looks like a good festival this year. They have a blog here and the program is here.
My favourite upcoming Documentary is this one but sadly I’ll not be able to attend! Sugar.
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Posted in Publishing on February 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Eoin Purcell
I posted recently about The Dubliner’s post about blogs and the media: here
I commented on the blog and thought little about it after until I got an e-mail from the Editor to say they had printed some of the responses as letter and had chosen mine as the letter of the bunch. Apparently that [...]
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Eoin Purcell
Sometimes its the simple things that cause the most trouble
The Caucus Blog is one of the best innovations I have come across in the US Election* (And by picking it I don’t mean to diss any of the dozens of other Main Stream/Net Native and Personal Election blogs out there). The New York Times [...]
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Posted in Authors, Books, Bookselling, Booksquare, Free, Future of Books, Future of Media, Future of Publishing, Future of Writing, SFWA on February 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Eoin Purcell
As per usual Kassia gets it right where other just try (I include myself in the others category)
Here
Why this is news to anyone I really, really do not know: Discounting Can Be Detrimental!
Here
John Scalzi (New Favourite Author - I’ve read the Old Man’s War trilogy in less than a week taking out the delivery [...]
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Posted in Publishing, tagged Books, environment, green on February 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Won’t someone please think of the children
And stop using words like emissions?
For the record the story is here and the goal is noble!
Such as it is,
Eoin
[Hat Tip to a certain industry exec who showed the way!]
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Eoin Purcell
Update Two: All Gone Folks
Update: Two went within the first half hour but remarkably there is still one left! Tuesday 9.30 AM GMT
It pays to work for a publisher
in what can be described as a moderately innovative trial I have been given some books to disperse
3 Copies of The Wordmdigger’s Daughter by John Farrell
Molly [...]
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Posted in Authors, Bloomsbury, Books, Bookselling, Future of Publishing, Future of Writing, MacMillan, Publishing, Publishing People, Richard Charkin, blooks on February 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
They Can’t Eat You*
One thing I have learned since I started blogging is that asking can result in only two answers; Yes or No. The rest is variation on a theme.
I first learned this when I cheekily asked to meet Richard Charkin, then CEO at Macmillan, for a meeting at a point when I [...]
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Posted in Blogroll, Books, Future of Books, Future of Media, Future of Publishing, Future of Writing, Networked Books, O'Reilly, Print On Demand, Print to Digital, Publishing, Publishing Innovation, Tools of Change, blooks on February 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Eoin Purcell
Update: The Digitalist has some good words on Content!
Without content there is no internet, there is no context, there is no point in contacting in the sense that I understand Rushkoff to be using it. Pretty much everything in media is changing true, but the one thing that is not changing is the [...]
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Posted in Blogging, Journals, e-journals on February 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
What’s the line: Brevity is Clarity?
Whatever it is, The Girl Who’s Afraid of Foxes has a wonderfully brief and pointed post about scholarly journals. It prompted me to have a look around and see what people were thinking in this field which I think will move that direction very soon anyway purely because it [...]
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