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Continue reading →: New Post On EoinPurcell.com
Things Publishers Fear: No. 1 ~ Amazon No 1 ~ AMAZON Despite the seeming victory of Macmillan in its battle to force Amazon to accept the new “agency model” publishers have a sensible fear of Amazon. Like all businesses that sell their goods to consumers through intermediaries, publishers are forced…
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Continue reading →: The Sunday Times Column
I’ve a column in The Sunday Times today. it features many of the ideas from this piece about bookstores. Here is a flavour and you can read the full piece here: Whatever way you look at it, as a big book-buyer I should be a chain store’s best customer. Instead,…
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Continue reading →: Digital Book World
photo credit: brew ha ha I’ll be travelling for the next two weeks. I was invited to speak on a panel at Digital Book World, an amazing and exciting conference on digital change in the world of Trade Publishing, in New York City on Tuesday 26th. I’ve decided to hang…
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Continue reading →: Whither Publishing In The Twenty Teens?
I’ve posted a short essay on where we are and where we are going, publishing wise, over at EoinPurcell.com: The means of publication and distribution have been opened up to many, many millions. Digital printing has been slowly but surely reducing the barriers to print publishing and the impact of…
