February 2012
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They killed him entirely
stancarey:
A young man died after injuries received in a row, and his friend says:– ‘It is dreadful about the poor boy: they made at him in the house and killed him there; then they dragged him out on the road and killed him entirely, so that he lived for only three days after.’
P. W. Joyce, English As We Speak It In Ireland (1910)
January 2012
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Much Goodness Here >> venomous porridge: Common... →
dwineman:
In a probably-futile attempt to stem the tide of redundant comments, I’ll address some of the more frequent reactions to my last post: If you don’t like it, don’t use it! Duh.
You’re missing the point. The issue is that this is a software EULA which for the first time attempts to restrict…
August 2011
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Andrew Wylie on ebooks
Well worth having a listen to this. He couched it in a lot of stuff but really all Wylie is looking for is 50% Net from publishers for his authors ebook sales!
Eoin
bgeblog:
Leading literary agent Andrew Wylie speaks to Martha Kearney on The World at One (mp3)
Andrew Wylie speaks to Martha Kearney on the BBC’s The World at One
July 2011
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ami with an i: Some Good Ways to Get Noticed at... →
amiwithani:
I spent the vast majority of my Saturday in terrible, terrible airports on an epic 10-hour trek (nowhere impressive, don’t ask) that began at 4:30 AM. To keep myself from succumbing to the siren song of Combos and an issue of Elle—a path that lands me in a brutal shame spiral which effectively…
Interesting stuff
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June 2011
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David Ogilvy's Best Business Advice (Could be life... →
May 2011
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“WELL DONE TO COLLINS PRESS!
Independent Cork publisher, Collins Press has had...”
– Royals Bag a Brace Of Irish Published Books
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Countess Markievicz School →
This is a pretty cool idea: ‘If women remain on the margins of society, we only have marginal opportunities for making marginal change’, Maria Torres, Adult Literacy teacher, Equador
Concerned about the declining numbers of women in public and political life and inspired by a flippant comment, the Countess Markievicz School was born. In honour of Ireland’s first female MP and Cabinet Minister,...
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April 2011
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LA Times Festival Of Books
There are going to be a load of Irish authors and poets hitting LA as part of the LA Times Festival of Books! It’s part of Imagine Ireland a programme which is the brainchild of Culture Ireland and involves both Publishing Ireland (hence my involvement) and Poetry Ireland.
The Irish readings and events I know of for sure, are the ones I’m helping out with:
Saturday11.00–11.30...
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Are you still in book publishing?
When you look at the niche sector you are publishing books into, does it really make sense to think about it as book publishing anymore?
More and more, I look at companies who think they are BOOK publishers and I begin to think that at best they are publishers and at worst service companies!
That’s not necessarily a bad thing, just that they haven’t acknowledged the change...
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The Easter Rising – A brief overview →
Great article by John Dorney giving a brief overview of the East Rising 1916
March 2011
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MindField - An International Festival of Ideas →
Rats, I am going to miss this!
On the other hand, I’m missing it because I’ll be in LA!
Swings/Roundabouts
Eoin
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Amanda Hocking is so clued in!
What happens if they screw you over in a contract, steal all your money, and keep your erights forever> Then they do. I like the books St. Martin’s bought. And I believe in them. But if I lose money on them, I lose money on them. That’s the risk I’m taking. And I do know this is a risk. But it’s a calculated risk, and if it works out, the payoff could be enormous. But...
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Nasty Review For Barry
A kind of nasty review for Kevin Barry’s City Of Bohane, unattributed too which seems odd:
There are other oddities, notably a first-person narrator who makes his presence felt every so often, but so glancingly that you wonder what he’s doing there, and by the end his function, if he has one, remains unclear.
Barry has a remarkable talent, as is evident from his short stories, but a...
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Historivision-HV Film →
Slick site this and great video on Afghanistan focused on Chrurchill’s experience there!
Churchill on the Afghan Frontier
When war swept the Afghan frontier over 100 years ago, a young Winston Churchill was there to write about it. His dispatches for a London newspaper still resonate.
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Book Review: Riotous Assemblies – Rebels, Riots... →
Great review of Riotous Assemblies by John Dorney!
John Cunningham gives much food for thought in his account of how the Irish-speaking community of Lettermullen in Connemara became involved in a stand-off with the police and the coastguard in 1873, over the salvage of shipwreck. The police started off by allowing the locals, under the 1854 Salvage Act, to keep some of the salvaged goods in return...
February 2011
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So I wrote a thing on me Wordpress blog
And it went like this:
Digital content WILL dominate the future*. You don’t have to like that, but you DO have to accept it. When you accept that you’ll begin to see that the systems behind publishing need to change rapidly or else you need to create a new organisation to work within the new rules (and economic realities).
It’s time for the industry to stop worrying about Apple, Amazon and...
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OR Books: Shop Talk →
orbooks:
HERE is why we at OR dread dealing with intermediary sellers—sure, by spurning a behemoth like Amazon, we can feel morally superior (strange to think that Barnes & Noble is today’s underdog)—but that’s not the primary reason. It’s that the big stores are such whiners, and unfortunately they’re…
John Oakes hits the nail on the head here!
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Apple wants a cut of Kindle sales on iDevices? Hoo... →
ingraham:
Giving Apple more benefit of doubt that they probably deserve on this issue, making purchasing work the same way in all apps would be a lovely thing for usability. In utopian ecommerce, you would buy anything for use with an app from within the app and it would always work almost the same way.
Now…what’s that worth? How large a piece of each purchase is your company willing to give...
January 2011
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December 2010
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Digital Vision
Nice post on what lies ahead! Don’t agree with the whole thing, but much to ponder!
bookmachine:
Dean Johnson (Creative Director at Brandwidth), with the help of his crystal ball, gives us six key digital publishing developments for 2011.
Read More
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HANASIANA: DIY E-books by the Numbers: A Case... →
jimhanas:
I had a great time yesterday at Book Camp NY, an unconference about book publishing that—as I mentioned to several people—was like my Twitter timeline come to life. It was like a weekend conference compressed into four hours, which was great, not to mention efficient.
If you’ve never been to an…
Fascinating stuff!
Eoin
November 2010
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NASA Sets News Conference on Astrobiology... →
hughmcguire:
via @fchimero
Em wow:
WASHINGTON — NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.
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“The Best Of Irish History Titles For Christmas 2010 The sheer volume of Irish...”
– Christmas Preview 2010 | Irish History
October 2010
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September 2010
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Floating away
ciaracreative:
This is a piece that i just finished using old unwanted books for the charity Reason to Give. It is an 8 x 10 canvas with paper from old library books & acrylic.
Nice!
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debbiestier: Books on Cloud Nine →
debbiestier:
I had the honor of interviewing keynote speaker Mark Nelson for the Publishing Business Virtual Conference today. Mark’s title is Strategic Partner Manager for Google…….and he used to work at Random House. (btw, Tom Turvey who also works for Google Books, used to work at HarperCollins. One…
All interesting news!
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July 2010
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CinoBoo comments on Google employees on Reddit:... →
mikecane:
Most of them [those who work on the Google search algorithm] - actually, all of them that I know - are really nice and freakishly brilliant. I’d highly recommend chatting with them or picking up a 20% project - there’s tons of awesome data and useful algorithms that are just sitting around. The publicly-exposed UI of Google is only the tip of the iceberg…there’s lots of interesting...