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Continue reading →: Here come the Europeans
Eoin Purcell You think I’m joking! But I’m not: In a ranking of global publishers, the deal will take the combined group to just outside the top five, competing for sixth position with Hachette Livre. Significantly, it will be the only group in the top 10 not to have either…
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Continue reading →: Whither the book trade
Eoin Purcell Andrew Crawford of my favourite online retailer Has a blog today over on The Bookseller. What I like about it is the way he happily turns book publishers worries on tehir heads and back again. For instance: What should worry retailers is that publishers are the market makers:…
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Continue reading →: Murphy’s Ice Cream Book of Sweet Things
Eoin Purcell What a week And a great ending too. Thursday evening saw me fly from Dublin to Kerry and then driving to Dingle for the launch of Murphy’s Ice Cream Book Of Sweet Things. Kieran has a great pair of posts on the two launches but I thought I’d…
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Continue reading →: Oh look, a new Swift . . .
Eoin Purcell Seen in passing But I really wanted to talk about two things The first is this, the wonderful new editions of Alexander Dumas that harper Perennial have out. They are damn pretty and my pictures don’t do them justice so please go check them out*: The Count of…
