October 2009
12 posts
YOU are a publisher →
That’s right YOU.
It bears repeating because at times I fear people have missed the reality that If you have a Blogger or a WordPress.com blog, if you Tweet, Tumbl or Flikr YOU are a publisher.
Links of Interest (At Least to Me) 27/10/2009 →
Interesting post about engagement strategy and an upcoming webinar from Digital Book World. Here
Smashbooks looks at how authors need for publishers is being diminished. Here
Mike Shatzkin…
Sara Lloyd’s Manifesto Revisted →
It is well worth dropping over to The Digitalist and reading Sara’s notes from her speech at TOCFrankfurt. I thought she was most refreshing for a large publishing as I mentioned in my previous…
Links of Interest (At Least to Me) 19/10/2009 →
The Frankfurt Cleared The Air Edition
Richard Eoin Nash’s post on the Frankfurt Book Fair blog is all kinds of excellent:
Not only, it turns out, are the readers of the world looking to buy…
Ancient Folk Tales of Ireland: →
Hawkhill Publishing is a new-ish company under the direction of former Hughes & Hughes buyer Colm Ennis. They had a hit last year with the rather attractively packaged GAA Book Of Days…
TOCFrankfurt, now with controversy →
Whither Trade Publishing
People often disagree
Personally, I thought TOCFrankfurt delivered as much as might be expected of a one day conference. But there are those who…
4 Reasons To Think That The Kindle International... →
This is just a short list but here are some reasons I suspect this is a rush release by Amazon:
1) It’s not shipping till 19th October! Did they need the news before Frankfurt…
Kindle goes worldwide →
Amazon announce the international kindle
IT WILL SHIP TO IRELAND (SEE BELOW FOR MORE)
So Amazon announced that they are now allowing pre-orders of the Kindle worldwide. They…
Publishing Success In Ireland, Part Four →
The Companies
You’d imagine that being an Irish chart, the figures on the Irish Consumer Market would reflect that and we would see a lot of Irish companies dominating the market. It’s not a…
Monday Irish Book Links 5th October 2009 →
Maybe, it’s because of the time of the year, the first week of October see the launch of an incredible number of title worldwide as large, small and medium companies try to launch a christmas…
Getting to Digital II →
Thinking leads to more thinking
A rather great comment from Litlove got me thinking today. She wrote:
I’ve been thinking a lot about what you said – that the slice of the market that makes…
