Publishing success in Ireland, Part Two
Eoin Purcell This is Part Two in a series (currently of indeterminate length but I suspect five) of posts. Read the first, Here. The Categories I promised at the end of my last post to offer up some...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble to distribute Smashwords content
Eoin Purcell Now this is very cool news Smashwords have announced a rather great piece of news: Smashwords has signed an agreement with Barnes & Noble to distribute Smashwords ebooks. As you might...
View ArticleLinks of Interest (At Least to Me) 15/09/2009
Just under a month to TOC Frankfurt & the Frankfurt Book Fair. If you twitter, search using the following hash tag and youy’ll see lots of people are talking about it #fbf09. There’ll be a TweetUp...
View ArticleSara Lloyd’s Manifesto Revisted
It is well worth dropping over to The Digitalist and reading Sara’s notes from her speech at TOCFrankfurt. I thought she was most refreshing for a large publishing as I mentioned in my previous blog...
View ArticleEbook first publishing might work
UPDATE: The Huffington Post carried an article by John Oakes (co-founder OR Books) last week which I missed. I’m quite surprised there isn’t more news about this deal. Publishers Lunch* (apologies for...
View ArticleLinks of Interest (At Least to Me) 11/12/2009
Editor & Publisher and Kirkus Reviews to close. Frankly I find this a little strange. Even spinning them off might have been better, though survival on their own would have been pretty unlikely...
View ArticleLinks of Interest (At Least to Me) 12/12/2009
Colm & The LaZarus Key I like the structure of that date, it has a good look to it. Here is a link to JA Konrath’s rather interesting list of ebook predicitions from the start of the month. I...
View Articlewww.IrishPublishingNews.com Launches
Irish Publishing News Last month I announced that I had rolled out an experimental service aggregating news links for Irish Publishing. Today, after much meddling and experimenting, I finally pushed...
View ArticleDigital Book World
photo credit: brew ha ha I’ll be travelling for the next two weeks. I was invited to speak on a panel at Digital Book World, an amazing and exciting conference on digital change in the world of Trade...
View ArticleAmazon Encore Signs JA Konrath
Amazon Encore the publishing imprint of the internet retailer has signed a deal with JA Konrath to publish his next ‘Jack’ Daniel title, Shaken. This is pretty big news, as Mike Shatzkin points out:...
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