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Continue reading →: I am not convinced – Why “bookaholic”, as a concept, stinks
Eoin Purcell ** Bad ideas sometimes have a long half-life* Damian Horner has an opinion blog in the bookseller today and it is a pretty shameless self-defence piece: That is why we are moving forward with the Bookaholic concept. It gives a new twist to the mantra “You can’t put…
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Continue reading →: Links of Interest (At Least to Me) 19/06/2009
Eoin Purcell Google Books have bumped up the features on the service, nothing too amazing but some nice new additions! A bit of accidental digging and searching for something else led me to this book on a natural history of New York City, Mannahatta, very cool indeed! The Bookseller has…
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Continue reading →: Tor.com launches a “publisher agnostic” webstore
UPDATE: Tor.com becomes an imprint in itself! Singing Praises If you watched the Mike Shatzkin video (it has shuffled to new quarters now and offers a very fancy annotation system) I linked to last weekend about the digital shift, this news makes perfect sense. I wrote some time ago about…
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Continue reading →: For A Limited Time Only: Mike Shatzkin’s Publishing Shift Video
Eoin Purcell If you do nothing else before Monday, you should watch Mike Shatzkin’s video on the digital shift in publishing. It is only available for free until Monday and you can view it here. It is deeply impressive, crystallizing as it does, the reasons why this shift MUST happen…
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Continue reading →: Publishing, but not as we know it
Eoin Purcell Hopes & Dreams I went to Children’s Books Ireland’s talk on Thursday 11th June on the future: ‘Publishing but not as we know it | ebooks, digital publishing and children’. Aside from the very minor quibble, that the panel had no publisher (odd given the topic) it was…
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