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Continue reading →: A Quick Link | Dublin Opinion » Paddy Moran Commemoration Programme – 8 to 14 March 2011
Executed For Ireland: The Patrick Moran Story was one of the titles I commissioned while at Mercier, an excellent book and an fascinating topic, sounds like an interesting series of events: Monday 14th March 2011 (The anniversary of execution) 7.00p.m. Mass in the Dun Laoghaire Club premises, 3 Eblana Avenue,…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | The Digitized Book Corpus and the Cracking Dam « The Scholarly Kitchen
A must read, not just for the piece itself but the vigour of the comments below it! The simple fact is that the romance of the printed book outlives the demonstrable usefulness of printed books in any particular discipline, and it dies very, very hard. To be clear: I’m not saying that…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | The subtext of REDGroup’s collapse | Josh Dowse | Commentary | Business Spectator
Fascinating throughout but this passage is striking both because it highlights the remaining defence of publishing and because if it is believed by publishers, it heralds the demise of publishing as we know it. Getting ‘its internal dynamics’ right means gutting the publisher as it stands and forever changing the way the…
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Continue reading →: Monday ReformCard Meeting
Warning, NOT PUBLISHING RELATED So it’s election time in Ireland. One of my friends, Johnny Ryan, is one of the bods behind ReformCard.com an interesting experiment to rate and rank Irish political parties’ plans for political reform. They are having a meeting at lunchtime on Monday where the parties will get a chance top respond to their…
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