Eoin Purcell’s Blog

Eoin Purcell
Seen in passing

But I really wanted to talk about two things
The first is this, the wonderful new editions of Alexander Dumas that harper Perennial have out. They are damn pretty and my pictures don’t do them justice so please go check them out*:

The Count of Monte Cristo
The Last Cavalier
The Three Musketeers
Two things strike me [...]

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Declan Burke’s rather enjoyable book The Big O was recently acquired by Harcourt for publication in the US.
Declan has posted that its due out there on 22nd September. And that he will be going a nice little book tour:
In other news, the Grand Viz (right) would have it known that he will be callously abandoning [...]

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I’m trying to figure out how I missed this for 3 weeks
I’ll blame it on my obsession with this. In any case this is a killer feature for me:
As long as I have an Internet connection, every change I make is saved to the cloud. When I lose my connection, I sacrifice some features, but [...]

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If you are into books, than read Personanondata
But if you don’t read it now, start with these two guest post from Mike “Beware the end of Trade Publishing” Shatskin*. Read them, Here and Here.
But why read stuff like this you ask?
Basically because our industry is more global than we often realize day to day. For [...]

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Eoin Purcell
You read it in the comments here first (Here)
And now a blog post on Authonomy’s Development blog confirms it, we are close to a private beta launch:
The blog’s new and impressively yellow rebrand heralds the imminent arrival of authonomy’s private beta launch. While we’ve still a little way to go on the full development [...]

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Eoin Purcell
Weidenfeld hits back
So Bodley Head and Random think there is life in serious non-fiction and judging from his comments, there is life in Lord Weidenfeld too. And he stands by serious non-fiction according to the bookseller:
Weidenfeld called the Observer story “a mischievous and misleading bit of journalism”. He said: “It is a complete [...]

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Prompted by a comment
It’s a long tome since it was announced and the development blog has been quiet since February.
Anyone know what is happening there?
If so, let me know!
Eoin

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Eoin Purcell
Bodley Head thinks not
I’m honest enough to acknowledge that if I was the average buyer of books, our industry would be in a fairly fantastic position. Firstly I buy too many (even with a mostly effective book buying bar I’m tallying about 5 or 6 a month) and I buy expensive (a weakness for [...]

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Eoin Purcell
As far as DRM goes
I knew it would be fun to have G&M’s Digital Development Manager blogging. For instance, here is part two of his series on DRM:
Here’s how it works:
1. I visit a website to order a book
2. The website requires me to register (not perfect in [...]

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I was tagged by Rowan over at Fortify Your Oasis. The rules:
1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged you.
1) Oddly is Strategy (Second Revised Edition) by BH Liddell Hart [9780452010710]
2) The sixth, seventh and eight sentences [...]

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