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Links of Interest (At Least to Me) 19/01/2008
Eoin Purcell The video is relevant but more on that below: I don’t know how I missed this but The Editor’s Corner at The Book Depository has a wonderful interview with one of my favourite History...
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Whither the book trade
Eoin Purcell Andrew Crawford of my favourite online retailer Has a blog today over on The Bookseller. What I like about it is the way he happily turns book publishers worries on tehir heads and back...
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Links of Interest (At Least To Me) 04/07/2008
Eoin Purcell Kenny’s open a new book store in their new premises. COOL! Here A great review of The Making of the Irish Constitution, 1937, by Dermot Keogh and Andrew McCarthy in the DRB. I’m biased, I...
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Amazon buys Abebooks and a bit of Librarything
Eoin Purcell Smart Move By buying Abebooks which is cool but never really rocked my world, Amazon gets closer to the treasure trove that is LibraryThing. Techcrunch, Techvibes and What does it all...
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Book Depository & Google Preview – I like it
Eoin Purcell Happy Accident I stumbled across the fact that Book Depository is using google’s preview function (I assume as part of Google Book’s recent API release: read the blog post and visit the...
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Fidra asks: What ten books would you love to see in a bookshop?
Eoin Purcell Fidra Books posted a query on their blog today designed to help them figure out what books to order for their new store: We’re resigned to the fact that we will open with a stock that has...
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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 Book Depository, said [in their press release]: We wanted to give our...
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Go Read This | Hachette e-books removed from Waterstone’s, WHS, and Book...
Trouble, strife and fallout from the agency model is blowing about in the Uk, watch this space! Hachette e-books have been removed from the websites of Waterstone’s, W H Smith, Tesco and The Book...
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Go Read This | Book battle: Dymocks considers offshore option – ABC News...
Fascinating story this. I’ve heard and been part of a few conversations about this phenomenon for some time. It is interesting both from the perspective of the booksellers and the publishing, and the...
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Go Read This | Fly the Falcon: Book Depository vs Book Stores
Cracking post this about book buying and selling in Australia from a book buyers perspective: The Australian Booksellers Association has been pushing on behalf of retailers for the government to...
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