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March 2008

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The monopolists: You need to worry about Amazon too → feeds.feedburner.com


Not content* with the audacious moves Kindle suggested, Amazon have made a big move in POD. James over at booktwo has some good words on it:

This is a pretty big deal. Amazon has around…

Mar 28, 2008
Penguin’s We Tell Stories Week Two (Brave & Cool) → feeds.feedburner.com


Eoin Purcell

I liked week one
But week two has enormous potential. Go here to get the low down.

Some of the characters are already following me (And Others) on Twitter and I’m following…

Mar 25, 2008
Public Domain Works & GBS → feeds.feedburner.com


Getting sick of Public Domain Works not appearing in GBS? There is much more to the story sometimes than you would think! Eoin Purcell

Cross Posted @ Uncovered History

Search Max Weber and…

Mar 23, 2008
Penguin’s We Tell Stories is fun → feeds.feedburner.com


Week One: We Tell Stories, Charles Cummings: The 21 Steps
I have to think more about this before I write about about it’s implications but as an experiment it sure pays off much much more than…

Mar 19, 2008
LibraryThing using Google Book Search’s API → feeds.feedburner.com


Eoin Purcell

On the one hand this is pretty sweet:

The official Google Blog and the Inside Book Search Blog just announced the new Google Book Search API, with LibraryThing as one of the…

Mar 13, 2008
Grandad’s book is coming!!!* → feeds.feedburner.com


So myself and Grandad has a wonderful chat on the phone the other evening. His Herself was chatting along in the background offering helpful hints and advice. I hope some of you are wondering how…

Mar 13, 2008
Frankly, this is just sad news for the Friday Project → feeds.feedburner.com


Snowbooks had more of the story and then this in Publishing News:

HARPERCOLLINS AND RANDOM House were this week vying to acquire selected author and book assets of publishing house The Friday…

Mar 13, 2008
One More for the Links → feeds.feedburner.com


WE TELL STORIES

It must be hard being so cool over at Penguin Digital & Six to Start!

Mar 11, 2008
Links of Interest (At Least to Me) 11/03/2008 → feeds.feedburner.com


Eoin Purcell

Flickr Photo of the day: From Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University

An Adoption Agency for Orphaned Works [Hat Tip Adam]
Here

More on what they…

Mar 11, 2008
The Irish B&B Cookbook gets some advance press → feeds.feedburner.com


Eoin Purcell

In Weenatchee: which is here
The Irish B&B Cookbook is one of our upcoming titles and frankly it’s a fantastic cookbook based on Ann Mulligan’s recipes from her B&B An Bohreen

…

Mar 11, 2008
HarperCollins buys The Friday Project (Apparently) → feeds.feedburner.com


Eoin Purcell

Both Clare and Scott update with what little they can share.

The Telegraph has the full story and so too does The Bookseller:

HarperCollins, the book publishing…

Mar 9, 2008
Irish Publishing: Dead or Alive? → feeds.feedburner.com


Eoin Purcell

In case you thought Irish publishers were not at the races with the future
You should have gone along to the debate on that very topic at the Dublin Book Festival on Friday….

Mar 8, 2008
Samantha Power, The Book Festival and Distractions → feeds.feedburner.com


Eoin Purcell

Distracted
Frankly, it’s amazing I’ve done anything this week. I’ve been busy obsessing over this. But I have somehow, including this.

Lectures
I left work early and drove…

Mar 6, 2008
Links of Interest (At Least to Me) 04/03/2008 → feeds.feedburner.com


Eoin Purcell

Hachette in the US distributes Sony readers to its staff: forward I hear you say?
Here

Not directly book relevant but genius so I cannot resist: The Art of Manliness.
Here

…

Mar 4, 2008
Go local with Librarything & Well Done Ice Crean Ireland & Head Rambles → feeds.feedburner.com


Eoin Purcell

Monday, bloody Monday!
Mondays have been getting busier for some reason and today was no different. On the plus side Good Times & Bad was put @ No. 4 in the Irish Times…

Mar 3, 2008
I’m live blogging the Booksellers Association Conference → feeds.feedburner.com


You can read it here!

This game is harder than I thought!
Eoin

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