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The Right To Fail – The Friday Project

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April 7, 2008

Eoin Purcell The Noise The Friday Project’s collapse and the subsequent acquisition of some of its assets by HarperCollins has generated a lot of heat, much noise and precious little decent analysis over the last few weeks. I’m not sure I have much to add one way or the other.…
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Authors, Books, Bookselling, Business, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Innovation, Links of Interest

Links of Interest (At Least to Me) 6/04/2008

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April 6, 2008

Eoin Purcell More from the guardian on the Weidenfeld & Nicolson story I wrote about before Here The Irish Independent comments on the shortlists for childrens literature prizes (i disagree in places, no doubt it will be clear where) Here The hype surrounding Robert Miller’s coming imprint and the reality…
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Authors, Books

Sometimes our industry is a little crazy

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April 3, 2008

Especially when you read articles like this in The Bookseller. It’s not so much the headline: Weidenfeld returns author advances that’s bad enough, it’s the explanation that kills me: One agent who has had clients affected said: “My conservative estimate is that they are writing off contracts in the multiples…
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Future of Books, Future of Publishing

I like Fairytales

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April 1, 2008

And Week Three of We Tell Stories is one With a twist! Go Read-ish Eoin
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Blogging, Business, Future of Publishing, Innovation, Irish Publishing

Do you have a Digital Development Manager?

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April 1, 2008

We don’t. Not unless you count me! But Gill & Macmillan do and he has just started a really interesting blog: Binary or Bust The title kinda gives his games away and the tagline offers even further proof: A collection of ramblings on how we can replace books with digital…
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