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Exact Editions for book publishers

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September 22, 2007

Eoin purcell And Google should be worried Had time allowed this week, i was hoping to do a quick comparison of online book services. As it happens I am glad I didn’t have that time because Adam Hodgkin over at Exact Editions has announced something I have know about but…
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Books, Bookselling

rBooks just doesn’t do the business

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September 22, 2007

Eoin Purcell I don’t normally complain But this really got me thinking today: I opened an account at rBooks just to see what it was like. I have mentioned the service before. I inidcated that I was a huge Terry Pratchett fan and when my home-page opened I was offered…
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Books, Bookselling

Borders UK & Ireland Sold

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September 21, 2007

Eoin Purcell Big news From The Bookseller: Borders UK and Ireland has been sold to Channel 4 chairman Luke Johnson’s Risk Capital Partners for a £10m up front cash payment plus an additional deferred £10m cash consideration. Borders Group will retain an equity interest of around 17% in the business…
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Clever LibraryThing

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September 18, 2007

Eoin Purcell Robert Jordan RIP This is remarkably clever LibraryThing have responded to Google’s My Library effort with this: Google Book Search Search is a bookmarklet that searches Google Book Search for the titles in your LibraryThing library. It works not unlike the famous SETI@Home project. You set it up…
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Future of Publishing, Irish Publishing

Galway & Oxford bound

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September 14, 2007

I’m heading to Galway today to talk with the student of this course/ I’m looking forward to it, but I’m alway strangely nervous! Then next week it is off to the UK for this course. Busy few days really. Hoping I get some rest this weekend Eoin
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