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Sophie: A Timeline

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April 2, 2007

Eoin Purcell This is worth linking to despite the brevity. The situation with sophie Sophie is an open-source platform for creating and reading electronic books for the networked environment. And is just about the ost exciting thing I have been waiitng on for some time. I think it will change…
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Authors, Copyright, Future of Books, Future of Media, Future of Publishing, Innovation, Reading, Writing

The future of online text

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April 2, 2007

Eoin Purcell A million undirected penguins What do Wikipedia and A Million Penguins have in common? At first glance little. But on thinking it through there is one feature that makes them almost identical. They are created by a distributed authorship model. One is one of the most useful sites…
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Publishing

Scribd looks cool

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March 25, 2007

Eoin Purcell Multi-authored Text Experiments with wiki-text, networked books and multi-authored texts have been going well. Penguin have had the most high profile effort with their Million Penguins wikinovel. Last week I highlighted Ficlets which takes the idea of multi-authored texts to a news slick level allowing prequels and sequels…
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Authors, Books, Bookselling, Future of Media, Future of Publishing

20 Major’s book deal

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March 22, 2007

Eoin Purcell Depressing & Excellent One of my favourite blogs Twenty Major (Tagline: Still Smoking in Dublin’s Bars) has, if Sinead Gleeson is to be belived, gotten a two book deal with Hodder Headline. One half of me is really happy and the other sad becuase there is little chance…
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Books, Business

Even digital aint safe

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March 18, 2007

Eoin Purcell Future History Last week I mentioned this article that was conerned over the future of non-commercial items trapped in non-digital formats. This weekend the FT has an really excellent long feature on protecting our current digital heritage. From the piece: Like Leonardo da Vinci’s notebook, love-letters between Oscar…
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