Comments for Eoin Purcell's Blog http://eoinpurcellsblog.com It's that simple -- and that hard. And that inescapable. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:44:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Digital Growth At Quercus, And Beyond by Tuesday Morning Staff Meeting – Book Publishing In The Modern World. Also, Happy Valentine’s Day. « the coffee philosopher http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2012/01/31/digital-growth-at-quercus-and-beyond/#comment-63513 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:44:24 +0000 http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/?p=3493#comment-63513 [...] Believe it or not, growth in the digital book market is slowing. [...]

]]> Comment on Go Read This | Ebook sales are being driven by downmarket genre fiction | Media | The Guardian by DC Gallin http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2012/02/06/go-read-this-ebook-sales-are-being-driven-by-downmarket-genre-fiction-media-the-guardian/#comment-63417 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:21:55 +0000 http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/?p=3510#comment-63417 The Guardian: yawn, sigh… Just check out the picture, it says it all!

]]> Comment on Go read This | For the First Time In History, Print Is Optional. Now What? | Publishing In the 21st Century by londonchoirgirl http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2012/02/06/go-read-this-for-the-first-time-in-history-print-is-optional-now-what-publishing-in-the-21st-century/#comment-63409 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:46:53 +0000 http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/?p=3512#comment-63409 Ebooks open up some exciting possibilities too. For my Lithuanian book for A Year of Reading the World, I stumbled across an anthology produced by a cultural organisation in Lithuania and designed to bring extracts of Lithuanian writers’ work to an English-language audience. The low publishing costs and ease of distribution meant they could reach more people than ever before…

]]> Comment on Go Read This | Ebook sales are being driven by downmarket genre fiction | Media | The Guardian by Nuala Ní Chonchúir http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2012/02/06/go-read-this-ebook-sales-are-being-driven-by-downmarket-genre-fiction-media-the-guardian/#comment-63407 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:29:09 +0000 http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/?p=3510#comment-63407 This doesn’t surprise me. The most aggressively sold e-books are genre books. You have to wade a bit to find the good stuff.

]]> Comment on Confusing Statistics And What They Might Mean by Eoin Purcell http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2012/01/31/confusing-statistics-and-what-they-might-mean/#comment-63368 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:53:49 +0000 http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/?p=3496#comment-63368 Ahh, but that’s 14% of book buyers. Going by the figures released earlier in the month the number might well be high, into the 20% range!

]]> Comment on Confusing Statistics And What They Might Mean by Philip Downer http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2012/01/31/confusing-statistics-and-what-they-might-mean/#comment-63367 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:09:49 +0000 http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/?p=3496#comment-63367 14% of ereader owners aren’t downloading content to their ereaders? Hmm. You’re more than a number in my little-read Nook…

]]> Comment on Confusing Statistics And What They Might Mean by Eoin Purcell http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2012/01/31/confusing-statistics-and-what-they-might-mean/#comment-63366 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:51:42 +0000 http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/?p=3496#comment-63366 It really is isn’t it! I do love that moment of deliver to my x device and then whoosh, there it is!

]]> Comment on Confusing Statistics And What They Might Mean by Nuala Ní Chonchúir http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2012/01/31/confusing-statistics-and-what-they-might-mean/#comment-63365 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:20:24 +0000 http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/?p=3496#comment-63365 It will be fun. I am new to Kindle, therefore giddy with it, but I am binging on e-books. I actually need to take control. It is so unbelievablly easy to get books (when the books you want are available, that is). On with the Kindle, onto Amazon and in seconds you have the book. It is magical :)

]]> Comment on Go Read This | Barnes & Noble, Taking On Amazon in the Fight of Its Life – NYTimes.com by Flashlight: Strobing the Book World #9 « Green Light http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2012/01/30/go-read-this-barnes-noble-taking-on-amazon-in-the-fight-of-its-life-nytimes-com/#comment-63361 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:39:19 +0000 http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/?p=3491#comment-63361 [...] players in the game. Elsewhere you can see Eoin Purcell’s take on Barnes and Noble’s corporate culture here (with the NYT article he references here). The American Editor blog volunteers an idea about [...]

]]> Comment on Apple: Some Skepticism And A Jaundiced Eye by Eoin Purcell http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2012/01/18/apple-some-skepticism-and-a-jaundiced-eye/#comment-63353 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:55:01 +0000 http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/?p=3468#comment-63353 Howard,
This was written before the announcement when it was far from clear exactly what was forthcoming, hence a somewhat hedging bet!

As it happens I suspect the iBooks Author launch has nothing to do with eTextbooks as such and EVERYTHING to do with that Apple sees a big market enhanced ebooks.

Some publishers agree with them, but I have my doubts. On the other hand if they are right and enhanced ebooks ARE a key segment in the industry they (Apple) will have built a clever platform for their creation and distribution just as AMAZON did with KDP for text ebooks.

Eoin

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