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What do they know that we don’t?

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May 14, 2007

Eoin Purcell The Thomson Sales Thomson sells its Thomson Learning division for $7.75 billion or £3.9 billion depending on your currency. Not only is this a great deal more than was originally floated, it is also a huge boost for Thomson’s $17.6 billion mooted bid for Reuters. An interesting piece…
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It really can be exciting!

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May 5, 2007

Eoin Purcell Being in books that is Not least because you meet people who are also in books and you get to talk about them (the books). Now, if you are as nerdy about books as I am you will enjoy something like SlowFire, an initiative led by James Bridle…
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Change: What’s been taking up my time

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April 22, 2007

Eoin Purcell Reading Fiction Is a surprisingly large part of my job. Although Mercier only publishes a very few fiction titles and those are of a very good standard (For Example), many of the submissions we get are fiction so for the first time I am reading fiction with a…
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Starbucks Selling books in Europe too!!

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April 5, 2007

Eoin Purcell Good News? For Who? The Bookseller (login required) reported today that the program I mentioned previously is coming to the UK (& Ireland??): The programme will begin in the UK on 21st May with Fourth Estate’s title A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael…
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Every self-published authors dream

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April 4, 2007

Eoin Purcell Preempting self published books This kind of event is rare so i do not think Publishers Weekly will mind me block quoting the article: Sourcebooks Preempts Self-Pubbed Kids Book by Lynn Andriani Sourcebooks has just acquired a children’s hardcover title that has sold 179,000 copies since the authors…
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