Posted in Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Google Book Search, Lulu.com, Bookselling, Distribution, Books, Business, e-publishing, Marketing on Dec 8th, 2006 2 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
This was news to me but I find it very interesting. A nice development for Self Publishers through lulu.com. Basically Lulu.com will allow you to get your book on GBS via their service so that the first link leads directly to your Lulu storefront. Nice feature.
It’s cold this December
Eoin
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Posted in Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Google Book Search, Microsoft Live Book Search, Publishing Innovation, Distribution, Publishing, ebooks, e-publishing, Books on Dec 7th, 2006 No Comments »
UPDATE: NICE COMMENT FROM BOOKSQUARE HERE
So in case you missed it Microsoft launched their rival book search product. There has been a great deal of comment on it. The product however does not have nearly the same buzz as Google’s product has.
Lifehacker has a pointer here.
See the wonder here.
Tired but happy
Eoin
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Posted in Tech & Web stuff, Publishing Innovation, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Google Book Search, Distribution, e-publishing, Business, Publishing, ebooks, Media & News, Books on Nov 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
Eoin Purcell
Google have two posts this morning talking up their improvements to Google Book Search.
From the Official Google Blog:
My latest assignment has been to help develop a better way to browse our digitized books on a computer screen. I’ve always had an interest in cutting-edge web applications — existing Google products such as Gmail, […]
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Again the news is slowly dawning on publishers that having your work highlighted might well result in actual sales. See this story for more.
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Richard Charkin’s goal is to begin discussion and his recent guest post from Susan Hill, author and part-time publisher, certainly did that.
Here
It seems sometimes that massive change is literally imminent. Amazon play with an e-reader. Distribution and not Content is apparently king/queen. But I think Seth Godin’s blog has a sobering view.
Here
I have been an […]
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Posted in Bookselling, Publishing Innovation, Print On Demand, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Shake Down, Google Book Search, e-publishing, Media & News, Authors, Business, Books, Publishing, Print, ebooks, Agents, Blogging on Sep 10th, 2006 No Comments »
The Links:
I thought (given my recent praise of Miss Snark) that listing a few of the agents I have stumbled onto on the web might be worthwhile. Jennifer Jackson has an interesting blog and a nice site and she works with the Donald Mass Agency.
Pub Rants is a very nice blog by Kristin Nelson.
Rachel Varter […]
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Wow how the hell did I miss this? And why was there not more chat about it? The long and the short of it is that one publisher DIANE Publishing has opened their entire list on Google Book Search to the public:
Good news for policymakers, researchers and others looking for key government documents. Recently, DIANE […]
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Posted in Publishing Innovation, Companies & Organisations, Bookselling, Future of Books, Google Book Search, Future of Publishing, e-publishing, Media & News, Business, Books, Publishing, ebooks, Copyright, News on Sep 6th, 2006 2 Comments »
Blink and you will miss it
Many of the book readers amongst us will have missed the Launch of Google Archive. That’s okay I wouldn’t feel too bad about it. Google hardly made a huge fuss over it and not many people have noticed beyond a cluster of techies and the like. But it is actually […]
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Posted in Future of Books, Bookselling, Future of Publishing, Google Book Search, Hitwise, Publishing Innovation, The long Tail, Publishing, Business, Print, ebooks, e-publishing, News on Sep 3rd, 2006 No Comments »
Reports seem to indicate that Google Book Search is driving traffic to Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and WH Smiths. At least that is what Hitwise are telling us.
This seems pretty logical if you think on it and it fits with what I have said about GBS from the beginning. I wonder how long before Google start to […]
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Posted in Publishing Innovation, Tech & Web stuff, Publishing People, The long Tail, e-publishing, Bookselling, Future of Books, Wired.com, Jay Rosen, Jeff Jarvis, Google Book Search, Self Publishing, Reporting, Journalism, Business, Books, Blogging, Writing, Authors, Writer, Copyright, ebooks, Agents, General on Aug 31st, 2006 3 Comments »
Sometimes there is just so much out there on the web it is hard to narrow down what to link to. Because of that I have decided today to do link clusters, a couple of links around each idea/concept. We will see how it works!
Promoting a book especially early in a career presents challenges in […]
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