Eoin Purcell's Blog

if:book has a very interesting article on print on demand, networked books and the reader as editor.
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The above link makes reference to an article in the NYT which as ever with the Times falls a little short of satisfaction.
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If you have heard the buzz around The Long Tail by Chris Anderson then these two posts and a guardian article (I know five links in a links post, shocking) will give some interesting detail and tangential thought.
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