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Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:14:28 America/Los_Angeles

The View from Below: A midlist author watches the ebook wars
This week, the battle over Amazon’s bid to corner the market on ebook sales — to establish itself as the iTunes of digital books — seemed to turn a corner. On one side, Amazon announced Steven Covey will abandon S&S to grant ebook rights to...
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eoinpurcell posted a blog entry

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:30:44 America/Los_Angeles

Guest Post: Louisa From Raven Books
I think it would be fair to say that Raven Books comes close to being my favourite bookstores in Ireland: It is our intention...
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Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:33:19 America/Los_Angeles

Irish Independent does a round up of sales in 2009
Sebastian Barry, king of the fiction world in 2009 with over 70,000 units sold of The Secret Scripture The Irish Independent...
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Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:48:22 America/Los_Angeles

Links of Interest (At Least to Me) 12/12/2009
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...
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Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:13:47 America/Los_Angeles

Links 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...
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Lloyd P posted a tweet

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:42:13 America/Los_Angeles

Readers Debate Twitter's Bookselling Usefulness - mediabistro.com ... http://bit.ly/65CfGQ
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Jay posted a tweet

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:31:05 America/Los_Angeles

RT @GalleyCat Readers Debate Twitter's Bookselling Usefulness - mediabistro.com: GalleyCat http://bit.ly/8F9urC
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Lloyd P posted a tweet

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:04:50 America/Los_Angeles

Readers Debate Twitter's Bookselling Usefulness http://bit.ly/8N7qlt
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eoinpurcell posted a blog entry

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:15:40 America/Los_Angeles

Christmas Books Special – 2009 – Part 2 of 4
Sci-fi & Fantasy today It is a difficult thing to hold my list to three books in this post (and so cheekily I’ve...
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eoinpurcell posted a blog entry

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:49:45 America/Los_Angeles

Publishing Success in Ireland, Part Five, Summing Up
This series has been an exciting and interesting one for me to write and research. The first four parts are the real meat. You...
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Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:08:29 America/Los_Angeles

Christmas Books Special – 2009 – Part 1 of 4 Food & Drink
I normally run a recommendation post for fiction and non-fiction books every Christmas. This year I’m having a tough time...
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Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:55:08 America/Los_Angeles

Links of Interest (At Least to Me) 03/12/2009
I’ve been a bit lazy with the linking here, because I’ve become so addicted to linking through Twitter. But I shall...
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Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:53:18 America/Los_Angeles

Ebook first publishing might work
I’m quite surprised there isn’t more news about this deal. Publishers Lunch* (apologies for the enormous robbery of...
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booktwo posted a blog entry

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:36:30 America/Los_Angeles

Frontline Futures and the rebirth of Vinyl
A couple of weeks ago I took part in a panel at the Frontline Club on the future of publishing. It was an interesting evening,...
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eoinpurcell posted a blog entry

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:16:58 America/Los_Angeles

Why not direct? WOT Ebooks From Tor
Notable news Tor.com have announced the launch of the ebook of the second book of the epic (though perhaps a new word should be...
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Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:14:01 America/Los_Angeles

Book Depository Free Ebooks
The wonderful people over at The Book Depository have rolled out a free ebook program. Kieron Smith, Managing Director of The...
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Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:44:08 America/Los_Angeles

Sara 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...
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Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:04:29 America/Los_Angeles

Ancient Folk Tales of Ireland:
Hawkhill Publishing is a new-ish company under the direction of former Hughes & Hughes buyer Colm Ennis. They had a hit...
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eoinpurcell posted a blog entry

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:07:25 America/Los_Angeles

TOCFrankfurt, now with controversy
People often disagree Personally, I thought TOCFrankfurt delivered as much as might be expected of a one day conference. But...
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Julie Anna S posted a blog entry

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:15:26 America/Los_Angeles

Valuable Book List to Help You Sell Books Online
Having a list of valuable books to sell online not only helps you know what is valuable (who knows what lurks on your...
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Ryder posted a blog entry

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:03:26 America/Los_Angeles

When It Rains It Pours
About a month ago I wrote a post lamenting how hard it has become to find inventory for my Amazon book sales. Well, about two...
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eoinpurcell posted a blog entry

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:15:09 America/Los_Angeles

4 Reasons To Think That The Kindle International Was Released Early
UPDATE: A bonus #5: No content on the Amazon Kindle Global Blog! This is just a short list but here are some reasons I suspect...
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Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:15:11 America/Los_Angeles

Kindle goes worldwide
IT WILL SHIP TO IRELAND (SEE BELOW FOR MORE) So Amazon announced that they are now allowing pre-orders of the Kindle worldwide....
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eoinpurcell posted a blog entry

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:09 America/Los_Angeles

Monday Irish Book Links 5th October 2009
Maybe, it’s because of the time of the year, the first week of October see the launch of an incredible number of title...
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eoinpurcell posted a blog entry

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:22:12 America/Los_Angeles

Getting to Digital II
Thinking leads to more thinking A rather great comment from Litlove got me thinking today. She wrote: I’ve been thinking a...
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