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Continue reading →: Eason & buyers . .
Eoin Purcell Why Easons is important If you work in publishing in Ireland, you have to work with Easons. I say that, not to attack them or to slight them, it is simply fact. Easons stores are located in nearly every major urban centre from Athlone to Roscommon and nearly…
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Continue reading →: Riverdeep buys Harcourt from Reed
Eoin Purcell Talk about Doubling Down This really is a remarkable move by Riverdeep & Houghton Mifflin (now one and the same since Riverdeep acquired Houghton Mifflin late last year): Publishers Weekly, Reuters/Yahoo News, Bloomberg and a bit of blog reaction from Martyn Daniels. From the HoughtonMifflin’s own press release:…
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Continue reading →: Staggered release
Eoin Purcell Staggered release windows are so last century. We want it all now, baby, we want it today. Why, as books are competing with so many other forms of media, would the publishing industry want to create a vacuum where one needs not exist? Booksquare have it right The…
