Alicia McAuley is a freelance editor and book designer. She has run her own business since 2006. You can find out more at www.aliciamcauley.com.
Those of us who provide services to book publishers – copy-editors, proofreaders, indexers, designers, illustrators and so on – depend on those companies for our livelihood. So can we expect that in [...]
O'Reilly Media Home About Job Board Directory Blog Community Archives Webcasts Resources Reading News The iPad in Europe the English speaking part at least Eoin Purcell April 29, 2010 Permalink Comments 0 Listen Editor's note : This is the first in a series of posts exploring the reception--and potential impact , of the iPad in locations other than the good ole USA . In today's entry , Eoin Purcell chimes in from Ireland . Kat Meyer It can be hard to envision the impact a device will have when you have only demo videos and second hand reports of it . When it comes to the iPad , Europe is operating in something of a vacuum . A smattering of tweets about sightings in the wild , a few twitpics from lucky or eager mac fans and the odd blog post from tech heads who couldn't wait a few months
Irish born writer Belinda McKeonz has signed a two book deal with Picador. Solace the first of two novels will be published in August 2011 with no date yet slated for the second, The Treasure. Picador acquired UK and Commonwealth (excluding Canada).
Mckeon now lives in Brooklyn, New York and she has attend Trinity college and [...]
At some point the reign of the unlikely king of book sales, Steig Larsson is sure to end, but right now, you’d have to wonder when that might be. Good to see a top ten placing for Poolbeg with Mary O’Sullivan’s book.
1: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest, Steig Larsson, 1,566
2: Hard Girls, Martina [...]
The Journal of Music, an international bi-monthly music magazine published in Ireland, has won the 2010 UTNE Independent Press Award for Arts Coverage. The Journal of Music has been supported by the Arts Council since it was founded.
Commenting on the award, Editor Toner Quinn said:
Our aim was to create a new type of music [...]
, , O'Reilly Media Home About Job Board Directory Blog Community Archives Webcasts Resources Reading News Patrons Are Consumers , and Consumers Are Patrons or , How Publishers Can Learn To Stop Worrying and Love Libraries Again Heather McCormack April 26, 2010 Permalink Comments 4 Listen Editor's Note : Among my hopes for TOC going forward is increased and productive discussion between all the various and sundry players in our readerly world . Chief among those players who we publishers sometimes woefully neglect librarians . My favorite librarian advocate , Heather McCormack has graciously offered up a few eloquent and entertaining thoughts on the sometimes strained relationship between publishers and librarians . Enjoy , and please share your own thoughts in the comments . Kat Meyer Like
Memoir by George W Bush to be published in November
I can’t see this being a huge seller in Ireland!
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First steps to literary glory
“I find men confusing,” Madeleine D’Arcy confessed when she was named New Irish Writer of 2009 at the 39th Hennessy X.O Literary Awards in Trinity College on [...]
O'Reilly Media Home About Job Board Directory Blog Community Archives Webcasts Resources Reading News Seven Paranoid Provocations on Ebooks and Digital Fiction Kate Pullinger April 25, 2010 Permalink Comments 3 Listen Editor's note : I love manifestos . I worry they are becoming too commonplace and will lose their cool factor , but this one , by Kate Pullinger an incredible novelist , and trail blazer in the transmedia or what ever u want to call it , mikecane arena , puts quite succinctly into words much of what has been missing from the future of publishing traveling . circus Kat Writers need to talk about money . Some of us reside inside the academy , some of us reside outside the academy some of us get grants for our work , some of us do not some of us are bestsellers , most of us are
Norther Irish writer, Stuart Neville has won a Los Angles Times Book Prize in the Mystery / Thriller category for his novel, Ghosts Of Belfast (Published as The Twelve in the UK & Ireland).
He beat off competition from Megan Abbott, David Ellis, Attica Locke (recently nominated for the Orange Book prize) and Val McDermid.
The full [...]
Jean Harrington is the Managing Director of Maverick House Publishers, a board member of Publishing Ireland, and the Irish delegate to the Federation of European Publishers. Maverick House is an independent, Irish, International publisher who commissions and publishes books for the world.
A recent poll on Irish Publishing News elicited a response from me, as it [...]
O'Reilly Media Home About Job Board Directory Blog Community Archives Webcasts Resources Reading News Scenes from a Very Quiet London Book Fair Andrew Savikas April 20, 2010 Permalink Comments 3 Listen Some photos snapped yesterday during the first day of the London Book Fair . Crowds have picked up on Day 2, but still an eerily quiet . show Categories : Publishing News home page 3 Comments kaveh : said April 21, 2010 6:39 PM These pictures are very unrepresentative , with not one person in site in several of them . It was quiet , but always people around . So your pictures are . unfair Andrew Savikas : said April 26, 2010 1:30 PM kaveh While there were definitely people around and things picked up on day two as I mentioned things were very quiet on Monday morning when I took these
O'Reilly Media Home About Job Board Directory Blog Community Archives Webcasts Resources Reading News Why iPad Adaptation is an Uphill Battle for Incumbent Publishers Andrew Savikas April 8, 2010 Permalink Comments 11 Listen I heard quite a bit of buzz the past few days about the Popular Science+ iPad app , a reimagining of the magazine for the iPad for the low-low price of 4.99 per issue so I took a look at it last . night And while it's slick , the problem is that it's a reimagining of the magazine . When someone is using your application game content website on their iPad and mobile device in general they expect it to behave like everything else they're using on the device For example , if you're going to put in a full-page ad what the heck does that mean on an iPad with a URL in it