April 2008
16 posts
Oh look, a new Swift . . . →
Eoin Purcell
Seen in passing
But I really wanted to talk about two things
The first is this, the wonderful new editions of Alexander Dumas that harper Perennial have out. They are…
The Big O in the USA →
Declan Burke’s rather enjoyable book The Big O was recently acquired by Harcourt for publication in the US.
Declan has posted that its due out there on 22nd September. And that he will be…
Google Docs Offline (with gears) →
I’m trying to figure out how I missed this for 3 weeks
I’ll blame it on my obsession with this. In any case this is a killer feature for me:
As long as I have an Internet connection,…
You could do worse →
If you are into books, than read Personanondata
But if you don’t read it now, start with these two guest post from Mike “Beware the end of Trade Publishing” Shatskin*. Read them, Here and
Authonomy not far away →
EoiN Purcell
You read it in the comments here first (Here)
And now a blog post on Authonomy’s Development blog confirms it, we ar close to a private beta launch:
The blog’s new and…
Serious non-fiction: Weidenfeld hits back →
Eoin Purcell
Weidenfeld hits back
So Bodley Head and Random think there is life in serious non-fiction and judging from his comments, there is life in Lord Weidenfeld too. And he stands by…
Where is Authonomy? →
Prompted by a comment
It’s a long tome since it was announced and the development blog has been quite since February.
Anyone know what is happening there?
If so, let me know! Eoin
Serious Non-Fiction: Doomed? →
Eoin Purcell
Bodley Head thinks not
I’m honest enough to acknowledge that if I was the average buyer of books, our industry would be in a fairly fantastic position. Firstly I buy too many…
A pretty neat DRM solution →
Eoin Purcell
As far as DRM goes
I knew it would be fun to have G&M’s Digital Development Manager blogging. For instance, here is part two of his series on DRM:
Here’s how it works:
1….
Book Meme Tagging →
I was tagged by Rowan over at Fortify Your Oasis. The rules:
1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five…
110 best books: The perfect library →
The Telegraph offers a fine list with it’s suggested top 110 books. My particular happiness being awoken by the inclusion of Waugh’s classic trilogy:
Sword of Honour trilogy
Evelyn Waugh
A…
The Right To Fail - The Friday Project →
Eoin Purcell
The Noise
The Friday Project’s collapse and the subsequent acquisition of some of its assets by HarperCollins has generated a lot of heat, much noise and precious little decent…
Links of Interest (At Least to Me) 6/04/2008 →
Eoin Purcell
More from the guardian on the Weidenfeld & Nicolson story I wrote about before Here
The Irish Independent comments on the shortlists for childrens literature prizes (i disagree…
Sometimes our industry is a little crazy →
Especially when you read articles like this in The Bookseller. It’s not so much the headline: Weidenfeld returns author advances that’s bad enough, it’s the explanation that kills me:
One…
I like Fairytales →
And Week Three of We Tell Stories is one
With a twist!
Go Read-ish Eoin
Do you have a Digital Development Manager? →
We don’t. Not unless you count me!
But Gill & Macmillan do and he has just started a really interesting blog: Binary or Bust
The title kinda gives his games away and the tagline offers…
