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Continue reading →: Monza, The Frankfurt Book Fair & A Sunny Athlone
So here’s some cool news and it comes in two parts. The first is that I leave on Sunday for UNESCO’s World Forum on Culture and Cultural Industries, Focus 2011: The Book Tomorrow: the Future of the Written Word in Villa Reale di Monza, Lombardia, Italy. I’m very much looking forward to…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Andrew Wylie – WSJ.com
Fascinating stuff this, well worth reading! I think most of the best-sellers list is the literary equivalent of daytime television. This is a world in which Danielle Steel is mysteriously more valuable than Shakespeare. Now, she may be more valuable than Shakespeare for a period of days, months or even…
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Continue reading →: No New Normal – The Value Web
For some reason this has been a very hard post to write. It’s a rather strange situation for me as in essence what I’m writing about is really a very basic idea. Maybe it is because I’m afraid that people will misunderstand it or take the wrong message from it.…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Amazon Hires Publishing Veteran Kirshbaum for New Imprint – WSJ.com
They’re not messing around, are they? In a move that fortifies its ambitious publishing program, Amazon.com Inc. has hired Laurence Kirshbaum to head a new general-interest imprint. Mr. Kirshbaum, 67 years old, will start in early July.The popular publishing veteran stepped down as CEO of the old Time Warner Book…
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Continue reading →: Garret FitzGerald
Some years ago, when Ciaran Lawlor was auditor of the Literary & Historical Society, I was asked if I’d like to deliver a paper to the society. I, of course, said yes and used the opportunity to speak pretty forcefully (there are those who will say crazily) about the need…
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