Not content* with the audacious moves Kindle suggested, Amazon have made a big move in POD. James over at booktwo has some good words on it:
This is a pretty big deal. Amazon has around 15%-20% of the total book market (in the UK), but the vast majority of the online book market, which is growing [...]
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Posted in Authors, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Future of Writing, Penguin, Publishing, Publishing Innovation, e-books, e-publishing, e-text on March 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Eoin Purcell
I liked week one
But week two has enormous potential. Go here to get the low down.
Some of the characters are already following me (And Others) on Twitter and I’m following them, there is a Flickr account and SOME BLOGS!
Fun, fun and slick!
Lets see how this one plays out!
Eoin
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Getting sick of Public Domain Works not appearing in GBS? There is much more to the story sometimes than you would think!
Eoin Purcell
Cross Posted @ Uncovered History
Search Max Weber and see what happens
Here is the result when you search with no limits here is the result when you limit your search to full view [...]
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Week One: We Tell Stories, Charles Cummings: The 21 Steps
I have to think more about this before I write about about it’s implications but as an experiment it sure pays off much much more than did A Million Penguins.
The build up is great even if the pay off is a little disappointing (if only because [...]
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Posted in Books, Future of Books, Future of Media, Future of Publishing, Google Book Search, LibraryThing, e-books, e-data, e-publishing, e-text on March 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Eoin Purcell
On the one hand this is pretty sweet:
The official Google Blog and the Inside Book Search Blog just announced the new Google Book Search API, with LibraryThing as one of the first implementors. (The others are libraries; I’ll be posting about what they’ve done over on Thingology.)
In sum, LibraryThing now links to Google Books [...]
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Posted in Publishing, tagged Books, fun, Grandad on March 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »
So myself and Grandad has a wonderful chat on the phone the other evening. His Herself was chatting along in the background offering helpful hints and advice. I hope some of you are wondering how Grandad is doing with his book, what with Twenty’s book doing so well.
The answer is:
Damn Fine Stuff
But unlike me, ya’ll [...]
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Snowbooks had more of the story and then this in Publishing News:
HARPERCOLLINS AND RANDOM House were this week vying to acquire selected author and book assets of publishing house The Friday Project which is expected to go into liquidation at a creditors meeting on 31 March.
Panos Eliades, of insolvency firm Panos Eliades [...]
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Posted in Publishing on March 11, 2008 | No Comments »
WE TELL STORIES
It must be hard being so cool over at Penguin Digital & Six to Start!
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Posted in Publishing on March 11, 2008 | No Comments »
Eoin Purcell
In Weenatchee: which is here
The Irish B&B Cookbook is one of our upcoming titles and frankly it’s a fantastic cookbook based on Ann Mulligan’s recipes from her B&B An Bohreen
Here’s the scoop
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Eoin Purcell
Flickr Photo of the day: From Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University
An Adoption Agency for Orphaned Works [Hat Tip Adam]
Here
More on what they have planned for us at Tor
Here
Ficlets won a web award at SXWS [Hat Tip John Scalzi]
Here
Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing With Fire is due out on 1 April, David Maybury has [...]
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