September 2008
12 posts
Links of Interest (At Least to Me) 29/09/2008 →
Eoin Purcell James puts his money where his mouth is to smart and lovely results Here & Here Personanondata has a round up on Firebombs and the Jewel of Medina, sometimes I just do not…
Sep 29th
37signals teach us about content →
Eoin Purcell Making Money Twice Read this. The key quote: That’s roughly $765,000 over a few years off roughly the same content. Insight and ideas about how we run our business. Blog…
Sep 28th
Of digital publishing and goldfish →
A Guest Post by Sara lloyd Sara is the Digital Publisher at Pan Macmillan and you can read her thoughts and those of her team at The Digitalist. I never thought I’d hear myself saying this,…
Sep 26th
Charkin blog book →
Eoin Purcell On a whim I flew over to London yesterday afternoon for the launch of Richard Charkin’s book. Macmillan, where Richard was CEO prior to joining Bloomsbury, decided to publish the
Sep 25th
Bloomsbury buys Berg →
Eoin Purcell More here Following on from their recent announcement of Bloomsbury Academic, this is a pretty logical move. The database note is also fascinating. They are placing some hefty…
Sep 25th
A robust response to “the end” →
Eoin Purcell One day sales of: 45,000 in the UK, 1964 in Ireland I’m still a little in shock! That is one day sales! Chris Paolini’s Brisingr the third in his Inheritence Cycle was released…
Sep 24th
From The Archive: August 2006 The New Magazines →
From The Archives Eoin Purcell Inspired by a riffing im conversation with David Maybury it occurred to me that I might with some advantage, link back to some of my archive…
Sep 23rd
On Publishing’s End →
Eoin Purcell The End Following a fairly decent survey article in New York Magazine (written by Boris Kachka) there has been considerable navel gazing and echoes of, “It’s all over,…
Sep 22nd
Some amazing reviews for Billy O’Callaghan’s In... →
Eoin Purcell Front Cover Picture: In Exile Pleasant Notes I spent some time on Amazon today and stumbled across some wonderful notes on Billy O’Callaghan’s really excellent…
Sep 14th
Links of Interest (At Least to Me) 13/09/2008 →
Eoin Purcell Overnight success: thoughts from an agent, Kristin Nelson to be exact. Here The Sony eReader, a sellout by all account. I tried my best to get one of these for free, I may just…
Sep 13th
Harper Studio Blogs too! →
Eoin Purcell Publishers’ Lunch points us in the direction of the new blog, the 26thStory, from Harper Studio, Bob Miller’s new imprint: HarperStudio is committed to partnering with authors…
Sep 12th
Bloomsbury launching academic line →
Eoin Purcell Logos In what has to have been some kind of weird telepahtic meme I was reading an article from an early edition of the Logos Journal (well worth getting a subscription) by …
Sep 5th