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Briefly Noted | Doorley new Hachette Ireland editorial director | The Bookseller « Eoin Purcell's
Hachette Ireland has promoted commissioning editor Ciara Doorley to the position of editorial director, effective immediately. via Doorley new Hachette Ireland editorial director | The Bookseller. Filed under: Irish Publishing<img alt="" border="0"
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Granta to publish 1949 novella | theBookseller.com
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European Commission Puts Challenges of Books Digitisation for Authors, Libraries and Consumers on
From the Announcement:The European Commission today adopted a Communication on Copyright in the Knowledge Economy aiming to tackle the important cultural and legal challenges of mass-scale digitisation dissemination of books, in particular of European library collections. The Communication was
Amazon’s top 10 | Inside Book Publishing
On its 10th anniversary, Amazon.co.uk has issued a list of its top-selling titles over this period. This is a different list to the evergreen titles highlighted earlier in this blog.Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince - J K Rowling (Bloomsbury)Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J K Rowling
Go Read This | More on the Death of Publishers | Mssv | Eoin Purcell's Blog
I’m not sure I agree that publishers have done nothing as this suggests, but even so, it is worth reading: But why would the average person not pirate eBooks? Like Cory Doctorow says, it’s not going to become any harder … <a
Frankfurt Day One 2010: TOC Frankfurt, Canada Livres International Rights Seminar | Eoin Purcell's
It has been an excellent if somewhat tiring first day here in Frankfurt. First up was O’Reilly’s Tools Of Change Frankfurt, which started with an interesting overview from Andrew Savikas followed by Pablo Arrieta and Douglas Rushkoff who gave the … <a
Go Read This | Rethinking the Publishing Company | Booksquare | Eoin Purcell's Blog
This sounds about right! Our thoroughly modern editor will sometimes go by the the name project developer. Rightly so. Even today, books are projects. Acquisition, editing, artwork, production, marketing…all of these are part of the final product that is known … <a
Things I Like | Liffey Ships and Shipbuilding – Pat Sweeney | The Irish Catholic | Eoin Purcell's
Nice review in The Irish Catholic for Pat Sweeney’s Liffey Ships & Ship Building, one of my commissions while at Mercier Press. The book is not only the result of very detailed archive research, it shows too the benefit of … <a
Things I Like | The cabbage plot rebels | Irish Examiner | Eoin Purcell's Blog
What a week for books I’ve commissioned it is turning out to be! Laurence Fenton’s The Young Ireland Rebellion and Limerick was featured in the Irish Examiner at the weekend. I’m delighted, it’s a fine book on a fascinating topic: LAURENCE … <a
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