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Authonomy kicks into overdrive

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August 20, 2008

Eoin Purcell Authonomy Ranks both Books and Backers! I have a lot more to come on this, and bizarrely my blog review will touch on it later today but the news is big enough to mention on its own. FroM The Blog. It will be interesting to see how I…
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Books, Bookselling, Business

Pretty much the whole Bookrabbit team join The Book Depository

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August 20, 2008

Eoin Purcell What a coup This is news by anyone’s standard: The Book Depository has hired former BookRabbit managing director Kieron Smith as its new m.d. and employed the six other BookRabbit employees made redundant from the retailer last month as it looks to expand. AND Will Jones, BookRabbit’s former…
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Authors, Blogging, Books, Bookselling, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Innovation

Random’s random blogging

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August 19, 2008

Eoin Purcell First the good news Random House surprised me a little. They have what look like decent title based blogsites: Blood River The Gods That Failed The Book of Surfing But the bad news follows on quickly But all three lack a little something. They don’t feel like really…
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Obama book links

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August 19, 2008

Independent Booksellers ‘Disheartened’ with Chelsea Green Publishers Weekly. Many independent booksellers are outraged with Chelsea Green’s decision to sell Robert Kuttner’s new book, Obama’s Challenge, by offering a discount coupon at the Democratic National Convention redeemable exclusively on Amazon.com via POD until the regular print run is available for national…
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Macmillan are going all bloggy

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August 18, 2008

Eoin Purcell Maybe it started with Charkin Though the spirit has remained since he moved onto a different position and stopped writing his blog. For one thing they started broadcasting their digital musings on the wonderful Digitalist blog: Imagine you are reading a book on a tethered device like an…
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