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Chapter Chunks: O’Reilly selling chapters individually online

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June 18, 2007

Eoin Purcell One of the compelling lessons of the digital music revolution was that people wanted to acquire and share songs, not albums. The analogies to books are imperfect, because books tend to be more of an essential organic whole than albums, but even with books, especially reference or tutorial…
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Links of Interest (At least to me) 2007006017

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June 17, 2007

Eoin Purcell The Return It has come to my attention that although the link blog does get visited, links I really really like don’t get the usual traffic. So I am reinstating Links of Interest. Here goes. LibraryThing goes over 15,000,000 books (Now that is a lot of books). LibraryThing…
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Everybody’s talking about VIDEO

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June 17, 2007

Eoin Purcell And why not Isn’t it the hip, happening and trendy thing to do online theses days? They even have an award. Aren’t we still a little amazed that YouTube was bought by Google for such an incredible chest of money? And isn’t the book world a flurry with…
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Blurb to jump into Europe

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June 16, 2007

Eoin Purcell Where only Lulu.com has gone before Blurb.com is to expend some effort in building market share in Europe according to The Book Standard: Starting next month, the company will launch specific website improvements geared toward European users, including the option to view Blurb books in metric dimensions and…
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Best lines I have read so far today . . .

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June 16, 2007

Eoin Purcell And I thought there was no chance of surprises in this industry: Physicist, author and professor Stephen Hawking is writing a children’s book, to be published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers in the fall. Hawking’s bestselling A Brief History of Time has sold more than…
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Chapter Chunks: O’Reilly selling chapters individually online

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