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Continue reading →: BBC Worldwide buys Lonely Planet
Eoin Purcell Seems like a good buy to me For details read here or here or here. I have been noticing that Lonely Planet has been extending its brand very subtly recently. For instance moving into non-specific travel books like this one or this one and launching a nice set…
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Continue reading →: Richard Charkin leaves MacMillan for Bloomsbury
Eoin Purcell ByeBye Charkinblog Times they are a changing. Bloomsbury announced that Richard Charkin will join them as executive Director on 1st October: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc has today appointed Richard Charkin an Executive Director of the Company with effect from 1 October 2007. Richard joins the team with responsibility for…
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Continue reading →: Words to freak you out by . .
Eoin Purcell Not so long ago David McWilliams gave the Irish book industry a real kicking an walked away with huge sales and great hype with: The Pope’s Children (Published by Gill & MacMillan) Now he is kicking the whole economy (and it needs it) with The Generation Game> Some…
