-
Continue reading →: Go Read This | Russian state fund takes 25% stake in YotaPhone – FT.com
Interesting news this. I don’t know that it will revive ereaders as a segment and I think we would be better pushing smartphone readers to simply use their current screens to read rather than making life more complicated for them, but: YotaPhone’s makers managed to fit two devices inside one…
-
Continue reading →: Go Read This | Nate Silver Interview: The New FiveThirtyEight — Daily Intelligencer
Much of interest here. I was thinking too that, at the very least, one could replace the word journalism with the word publishing and even now still be correct: This is data journalism, capital-D. Within that, we take a foxlike approach to what data means. It’s not just numbers, but numbers are…
-
Continue reading →: Go read This | Past, present and future | The Bookseller
Interesting piece by Stephen Page of Faber in The Bookseller: Publishers and other media companies have always been as singular as those who invest directly with talent to license properties. This is changing. Netflix’s House of Cards demonstrates that players further down the value chain are trying to expand their…
-
Continue reading →: Why Traditional Publishers Should Surrender To Self Publishing
I had a fascinating conversation with Porter Anderson as part of The Booksellers #PorterMeets on Twitter on Monday. The topic was Hugh Howey’s AuthorEarnings project (after they released the original 7,000 report but before they released the 50,000 report) which has been raising hackles and causing ruckus in publishing the…
-
Continue reading →: Go Read This | the left room» Blog Archive » some quick thoughts on that report on author earnings
Much to think abut in the aftermath of Hugh Howey’s data dump! Thos is just one of the many god posts on it: The reality is that publishing anything is a unique path. If you have a book, and you’re trying to decide whether to self- or traditionally-publish, there is only…
Hello,
I’m Eoin,
Co-founder and publisher @fullsetbooks 📚. Expect books and 🍰.
Join the mailing list
Stay updated with my latest posts
Eoin Purcell's Blog 