March 2009
10 posts
Amazon’s new terms →
Eoin Purcell All’s fair On the face of it, Amazon’s latest ploy is a fairly decent deal for publishers. For only 2% extra discount you can get paid after 15 days> That’s wonderful, it…
Mar 28th
Google Books & The Orphan Works Problem →
Eoin Purcell Some People Who Are Smarter Than Me Have been doing a great deal of thinking about the Orphan Works part of the Google Book Search Settlement. Mike Shatzkin has a few posts…
Mar 28th
An interesting option for a summer intern →
Eoin Purcell Hire Mulley: You know you want to Damien Mulley who seems to control the Irish Blogosphere is offering himself out as a summer intern: I’d like to do 4-5 internships, each 5-7…
Mar 25th
The Irishman who finished Paxman’s book →
Eoin Purcell Odd but honest I read a great story today in The Bookseller headlined: Paxman hit finished by Irish writer It goes into considerable detail and its fascinating: Paxman…
Mar 21st
Grandad @ the Blog Awards →
Eoin Purcell What’s not to like about this? Go on buy a book, you know you want to! Eoin PS, Listening to an interesting piece on Kenny about Welcome to The Dark Side
Mar 13th
Links of Interest (At Least to Me) 13/03/2009 →
Eoin Purcell Great Article on The Kindle and its impact on the publishing & writing industry. Here Hugh McGuire, a castigator of publisher weakness (legitimately most of the time), has two…
Mar 13th
Guardian innovates →
Eoin Purcell Open Platform In what seems like a smart play to me the Guardian has created an API and a data tool. The API puts articles and news features (and crucuially advertising from The…
Mar 10th
Who didn’t enjoy World Book Day? →
Eoin Purcell I did enjoy World Book Day! Mainly because I attended two great readings by upcoming Mercier authors, Susan Connolly, whose Damsel will be released this month and Kieran Mark…
Mar 6th
Links of Interest (At Least to Me) 05/03/2009 →
You have to wonder what goes on in the heads of publishing firms sometimes. A week after closing teh Collins division in the US, HarperCollins announces a new one (It Books) focused: on pop…
Mar 5th
Links of Interest (At Least To Me) 02/03/2008 →
Eoin Purcell Not everyone is losing money in the CEE*. Pearson (Penguin’s parent) is coming up smelling of roses. Good for them. Here Random makes what I think is a smart acquisition though,…
Mar 2nd