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Bloomsbury Buys Tottel, Some Thoughts

eoinpurcell wrote 4 days ago: Eoin Purcell Bloomsbury’s canny acquisition streak continues Yet again, Bloomsbury have shown … more →

Tags: bloomsbury, Books, Content, Digital publishing, Future of Media, Future of Publishing, Publishing Companies

Guest Post: An Author's View of Electronic Publishing 3 comments

eoinpurcell wrote 5 days ago: Peadar Ó Guilín agreed to write a post for me on, well it does what it says on the tin. I was inspir … more →

Tags: Amazon, Authors, Blogging, Books, Bookselling, CBI, Content, Digital publishing, E-Books

Quartet Press: One to watch6 comments

eoinpurcell wrote 1 week ago: Eoin Purcell Start your engines If business models in publishing are to change and if people are to … more →

Tags: Books, booksquare, Commissioning, Content, Copyright, Digital publishing, E-Books, e-publishing, e-submissions

I am not convinced - Why "bookaholic", as a concept, stinks

eoinpurcell wrote 1 week ago: Eoin Purcell Books bought by the kilo, sold by the rupee. Probably about a mile of books along the s … more →

Tags: Book Marketing, Books, Bookselling, Future of Publishing, Marketing, Publishing Innovation, Retailing, The Bookseller

Links of Interest (At Least to Me) 19/06/2009

eoinpurcell wrote 2 weeks ago: Eoin Purcell Google Books have bumped up the features on the service, nothing too amazing but some n … more →

Tags: Books, Bookselling, Content, Future of Media, Future of Publishing, Future of Reading, Future of Writing, google book search, Links of Interest

Tor.com launches a "publisher agnostic" webstore3 comments

eoinpurcell wrote 2 weeks ago: Eoin Purcell The front page of the Tor.com store Singing Praises If you watched the Mike Shatzkin vi … more →

Tags: Books, Publishing Innovation, Bookselling, Future of Publishing, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Future of Media, Data aggregation, Macmillan, Future of Writing

For A Limited Time Only: Mike Shatzkin's Publishing Shift Video

eoinpurcell wrote 3 weeks ago: Eoin Purcell If you do nothing else before Monday, you should watch Mike Shatzkin’s video on t … more →

Tags: Commissioning, Community, Data aggregation, Digital publishing, E-Books, e-publishing, Future of Media, Future of Publishing, Future of Writing

Publishing, but not as we know it6 comments

eoinpurcell wrote 3 weeks ago: Eoin Purcell A screenshot of SCD Library Website Hopes & Dreams I went to Children’s Books … more →

Tags: agents, Amazon, Books, CBI, Children's Books, children's publishing, Community, Digital publishing, E-Books

Google's ebook program5 comments

eoinpurcell wrote 1 month ago: Eoin Purcell Google to launch an ebook service in late 2009 Or Motoko Rich writing in the so the NYT … more →

Tags: Amazon, Amazon.com, Books, Business, Content, Digital publishing, Distribution, E-Books, e-publishing

The future of reading is digital1 comment

Kate wrote 1 month ago: … Or so says Wired Magazine’s Clive Thomspon. And I have to say I agree. In a snappy lit … more →

Tags: Distractions, Digitisation, eBooks, Publishing

Links of Interest (At Least To Me) 21/05/2009

eoinpurcell wrote 1 month ago: Eoin Purcell Eucalyptus is a NICE looking forthcoming iphone book reading app. At least it was forth … more →

Tags: Books, Authors, Publishing Companies, Publishing Innovation, Future of Publishing, Distribution, Future of Media, Social Networks, Digital Records

Culling the Herd, Improving the Breed9 comments

Cliff Burns wrote 1 month ago: I’ve been accused of lacking a certain amount of, well, esprit de corps when it comes to the plight … more →

Tags: Books, e-novel, Editors, Essays and Non Fiction, Essays and Reviews, Genre, Literary, Literature, Opinions and Rants

Bloggers: Amazon will eat your lunch13 comments

eoinpurcell wrote 1 month ago: Eoin Purcell Quiet moves Lost amid the launch of Amazon Encore which I spoke of a little earlier in … more →

Tags: Amazon, Authors, Digital publishing, e-publishing, Future of Media, Future of Publishing, Future of Reading, Future of Writing, kindle amazon

All your base are belong to AMAZON12 comments

eoinpurcell wrote 1 month ago: Eoin Purcell Sometimes you get tired of being outmaneuvered In some senses, what Amazon launched yes … more →

Tags: Books, Publishing Companies, Publishing & Media News, Self Publishing, Print On Demand, Publishing Innovation, Bookselling, Future of Publishing, Print

The Publisher in the Value Chain 2009 Edition12 comments

eoinpurcell wrote 2 months ago: Eoin Purcell This is what I said before Back in 2006 I wrote a piece called The Publisher in the Val … more →

Tags: Books, Business, Authors, Self Publishing, Print On Demand, Publishing Innovation, Bookselling, Future of Publishing, google book search

Links of Interest (At Least to Me) 02/05/2009

eoinpurcell wrote 2 months ago: Eoin Purcell Some fascinating data about iPhone app downloads and how they flow. Story on Techcrunch … more →

Tags: Amazon.co.uk, Apple, Authors, Books, Digital publishing, E-Books, e-publishing, e-text, Educational Publishing

Booktacts – The future of books2 comments

R.W. Ridley wrote 2 months ago: Booktacts - The book you can wear! As an author and son of an ophthalmologist, I have been tinkerin … more →

Tags: Misc, Horror, Publisher's Weekly, Publishing, Random House, kindle, Satire, eBooks, twitter

Google Settlement & the author's responsibility

eoinpurcell wrote 2 months ago: Eoin Purcell Samantha Holman of the ICLA addresses the Mercier Author Meeting Head wrecking Mercier … more →

Tags: Books, Authors, e-publishing, Print On Demand, Publishing Innovation, google book search, agents, writing, Future of Media

Harper Studio - an internet native publisher2 comments

eoinpurcell wrote 2 months ago: Eoin Purcell Search keywords are funny indicators For a while now, (about nine months) I’ … more →

Tags: Books, Digital publishing, E-Books, e-publishing, Future of Media, Future of Publishing, Publishing Innovation


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