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Links of Interest (At Least to Me) 02/05/2009

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May 2, 2009

Eoin Purcell Some fascinating data about iPhone app downloads and how they flow. Story on Techcrunch & Original Source The Digital Market is worth £80million in the UK according to this piece in the Bookseller. A pretty interesting build-your-own-textbook offering from Norton is the US. The story is here and…
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Authors, Books, Future of Books, Future of Media, Innovation, Writing

Google Settlement & the author’s responsibility

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May 1, 2009

Eoin Purcell Head wrecking Mercier has spent the last few weeks in an intense period of trying to figure out our response to the Google Books Settlement. I have to hand it our our MD, Clodagh Feehan who has gone at this with gusto and pushed for answers to questions…
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Africa, British, Classic Books, Economics, Empire, Europe, Free Books, Geography, Google Book Search, History, Robert Kaplan, Russia, Russian, Society, Strategy, United States of America, War

The Revenege of Geography

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April 27, 2009

Eoin Purcell Robert Kaplan Strikes Again Kaplan writes an elegant and persuasive article about how Geography affects the world! In many ways it is a plea for a realist view of the world: Realism means recognizing that international relations are ruled by a sadder, more limited reality than the one…
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Books, Future of Books, Future of Media, Future of Publishing, Innovation

Harper Studio – an internet native publisher

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April 24, 2009

Eoin Purcell Search keywords are funny indicators For a while now, (about nine months) I’ve been following HarperStudio. I’ve mentioned them once or twice before and oddly enough people typing in the keyword harperstudio have been driving traffic to the blog pretty much since they started up. They are a…
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Voyager Community Vs Tor Community

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April 22, 2009

Eoin Purcell A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it’s bad. ~ William Bernbach Advertising works you know And I clicked on the link for the Voyager Books site that I spotted on Tor.com hoping that I would be…
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Links of Interest (At Least to Me) 02/05/2009

Google Settlement & the author’s responsibility

The Revenege of Geography

Harper Studio – an internet native publisher

Voyager Community Vs Tor Community

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