August 2009
20 posts
Take Unge’s Survey on Books →
Getting Data I got an e-mail from a UCC Student, Ugne Rauckyte, who needs ppeople to take an online survey on Books and bookselling in Ireland. The goal is below and I think it is pretty…
Aug 31st
Robin Writes A Book: Everything Old Is New Again →
There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary US author & satirist (1842 – 1914) This may just be the coolest…
Aug 30th
Publishing Success In Ireland, Part Three →
Eoin Purcell More on Category & Average Selling Price So the bones of the category analysis makes it look like Fiction is the way forward. Before we decide if that is a real picture…
Aug 29th
Barnes & Noble to distribute Smashwords content →
Eoin Purcell Now this is very cool news Smashwords have announced a rather great piece of news: Smashwords has signed an agreement with Barnes & Noble to distribute Smashwords ebooks. As…
Aug 29th
Publishers, Survival is not a right! →
Eoin Purcell Craning for a book (From Flickr user: gaspi) Noble thoughts, but misplaced I read an interesting blog post the other day about the demise of print publishing. It…
Aug 27th
Links of Interest (At Least to Me) 26/09/2009 →
Eoin Purcell It is nice to know that success in publishing is by no means ruled out for even for those who have passed on. Julia Child’s Mastering The Art of French Cooking is storming the…
Aug 26th
Authonomy turns on the smarts →
Eoin Purcell Moxyland, by Lauren Beukes I’ve dissed Authonomy a little in the past, but this really is a clever idea: We’re giving you the chance to have your short story…
Aug 20th
I’m looking for a writer with a huge interest in... →
Eoin Purcell Do you write about the Famine? I need a non-fiction writer who knows quite a bit about the Great Irish Famine who can write 7,500 -10,000 words by the end of September 2009.
Aug 19th
Publishing success in Ireland, Part Two →
Eoin Purcell This is Part Two in a series (currently of indeterminate length but I suspect five) of posts. Read the first, Here. The Categories I promised at the end of my last post to…
Aug 18th
Corvus: With Smashing Welsh Accent →
Eoin Purcell L. Lee Lowe is to be admired And not just because she has talent, but because Lee has embraced the web as an author and is innovating in an effort to reach readers. Lee has been a…
Aug 17th
Publishing success in Ireland, Part One →
Eoin Purcell The bestsellers at London City Airport - DSCN3939 From Flick User Larsz The votes are in and the numbers have been crunched You have to love Polldaddy for that. It…
Aug 15th
Crowdsourcing a cookbook: food52 →
Eoin Purcell Cooking Light (Explored) by Flickr user Steve Wampler This is a nice idea You now there must be something funky going on when Techcrunch reports on a new…
Aug 14th
Self-publishing Attracts Star Authors Too →
Eoin Purcell Self-Publishing Talk This morning I had a very engaging chat with a student writing a thesis on self-publishing in Ireland and comparing it to self-publishing internationally. The…
Aug 12th
How many books do you need to sell to be... →
Eoin Purcell Here’s A Question I’m trying to get to grips with what people in Ireland THINK about success is in terms of booksales (of any kind of book: Fiction, Non-Fiction, High, Middle or…
Aug 11th
Do you want to manage a bookshop? →
Eoin Purcell fidrabooks are looking for a manager for their new adult bookshop in Edinburgh. Were it not for the location, I’d already have applied and I think anyone who is footloose and…
Aug 10th
DO NOT USE Writing4all.ie →
Eoin Purcell On the face of it, Writing4all.ie seems a nice idea, a place for Irish writers to share, collaborate and build community: Welcome Guest! You’re viewing these pages as a guest….
Aug 9th
Bloomsbury’s digital strategy begin to take shape →
Eoin Purcell I hate to say, I told you so! It has been a hobby horse of mine for some time that Bloomsbury’s clever bolt on acquisitions have real potential for online and digital…
Aug 7th
Funding Literature in a Digital Age (initial... →
Eoin Purcell Time to think Maybe it’s because I have some time on my hands, or simply that with my head freed of some other obligations I have allowed some peripheral issues to sink in, I…
Aug 5th
On Fungibility →
Eoin Purcell Why the future will bite Today’s lesson in why the future is neither necessarily a nice place comes in the form of this nasty headline and story I spotted in The Bookseller:
Aug 4th
Links of Interest (At Least to Me) 04/08/2009 →
Eoin Purcell Interesting effort here by RTÉ who seem to be getting the hang of cross media productions following the success of their Judging Dev and Our War enterprises: Look Of The…
Aug 4th