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Continue reading →: A day for battles: Warsaw & Blenheim
Eoin Purcell Warsaw I’ve written before about the completely fascinating Polish-Soviet War of 1920 and Adam Zamoyski’s excellent book on the topic: Warsaw 1920: Lenin’s Failed Conquest of Europe. The key battle in that war The Battle of Warsaw began on this day 89 years ago. The initial stages of…
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Continue reading →: Self-publishing Attracts Star Authors Too
Eoin Purcell UPDATE: Covey has signed a deal with Rosetta & Amazon making Amazon the exclusive distributor of Covey’s ebooks backlist! Pretty big news: Here’s more in the New York Times: Amazon, maker of the popular Kindle e-reader and one of the biggest book retailers in the country, will have…
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Continue reading →: John Quincy Adams Lives … (Vicariously Through Twitter)
Eoin Purcell What a very cool project by the Massachusets Historical Society to reproduce a line a day from the diary of John Quincy Adams on Twitter: beginning with his journey to Russia on 5 August 1809. They also have a site dedicated to the journals. Today’s line: 8/12/1809: Calm…
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Continue reading →: How many books do you need to sell to be successful in Ireland?
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 Low Brow, hardback or paperback). It is something, as a publisher you always wonder. It is…
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Continue reading →: Do you want to manage a bookshop?
Eoin Purcell fidrabooks are looking for a manager for their new bookshop selling general books (whereas their current store focuses on Children) in Edinburgh. Were it not for the location, I’d already have applied and I think anyone who is footloose and fancy free with the requisite skills would be…
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