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Fascinating move by Open Road Media!

openroadmedia:

A photograph of James Jones in 1951, around the publication of From Here to Eternity, a stirring American classic about army life in the calm before Pearl Harbor. The book was instrumental in changing unjust army practices, which created a public outcry when it was first published. 
Open Road Media is proud to have restored previously censored scenes and dialogue to the text in our ebook edition. The Restored Edition includes never-before-seen passages that were cut from the original manuscript, including those containing reference to homosexuality in the military, four-letter words, political material, and philosophical content about art and society.

“A blockbuster of a book … raw and brutal and angry.”
—The New York Times
Fascinating move by Open Road Media!

openroadmedia:

A photograph of James Jones in 1951, around the publication of From Here to Eternity, a stirring American classic about army life in the calm before Pearl Harbor. The book was instrumental in changing unjust army practices, which created a public outcry when it was first published.

Open Road Media is proud to have restored previously censored scenes and dialogue to the text in our ebook edition. The Restored Edition includes never-before-seen passages that were cut from the original manuscript, including those containing reference to homosexuality in the military, four-letter words, political material, and philosophical content about art and society.

“A blockbuster of a book … raw and brutal and angry.”

—The New York Times

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LA Times Festival Of Books

There are going to be a load of Irish authors and poets hitting LA as part of the LA Times Festival of Books! It’s part of Imagine Ireland a programme which is the brainchild of Culture Ireland and involves both Publishing Ireland (hence my involvement) and Poetry Ireland. The Irish readings and events I know of for sure, are the ones I’m helping out with:
Saturday
11.00–11.30 (Discover the World Stage)
Sara Berkeley & Peter Sirr (Poets)
12.00-12.45 (etc. stage)
Brian Dillon, Molly McCloskey & Eoin Purcell
[i’m just the gopher here, introducing the writers] (Non-Fiction)
2.45- 3.15 (Discover the World Stage)
Mary O’Donoghue & Kevin Power (Fiction)

Sunday

11.00– 11.30 (Discover the World Stage)
Thomas McCarthy & Joseph Woods (Poets)
2.45- 3.15 (Discover the World Stage)
Nuala Ní Chonchúir & Kevin Power (Fiction &Poetry)

See you there? Eoin

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Are you still in book publishing?

When you look at the niche sector you are publishing books into, does it really make sense to think about it as book publishing anymore?

More and more, I look at companies who think they are BOOK publishers and I begin to think that at best they are publishers and at worst service companies!

That’s not necessarily a bad thing, just that they haven’t acknowledged the change themselves!

Eoin

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