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Continue reading →: Onix, Integration and Anko
Eoin Purcell Today we had a demo And it was fun. Robin from Anko visited Mercier Press and gave (almost) the entire team a run down on their system. In short, it addressed all the points we had raised in our internal meetings designed to figure out what we wanted…
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Continue reading →: Links of Interest (At Least to Me)
Eoin Purcell Macmillan Launches Lovelybooks.com (great name) a site for book lovers which to me seems like simply a new Librarything.com but what do I know. I am beginning to fear a series of walled book gardens with valuable data locked behind walls of different services. Seems a shameful waste…
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Continue reading →: Waterstones, even more Fopp & independent bookstores
Eoin Purcell Interesting Perspective To be had today in Publishing News which carries an interview with Martin Lee on the idea of Waterstone’s as a boutique offering: I think the future is boutique. There is scope for a niche chain that has attitude, edge and point of view. I think…
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Continue reading →: Irish Publishing & Transworld
Eoin Purcell I mentioned before About the challenges of independent publishing in Ireland. Well the news has just broken about Transworld entering the Irish market: Transworld has revealed plans to set up a new subsidiary company in Ireland, headed by Eason’s head buyer Eoin McHugh. Transworld Ireland will launch with…
