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Go local with Librarything & Well Done Ice Cream Ireland & Head Rambles
Eoin Purcell Monday, bloody Monday! Mondays have been getting busier for some reason and today was no different. On the plus side Good Times & Bad was put @ No. 4 in the Irish Times paperback...
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LibraryThing using Google Book Search’s API
Eoin Purcell On the one hand this is pretty sweet: The official Google Blog and the Inside Book Search Blog just announced the new Google Book Search API, with LibraryThing as one of the first...
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Do you have a Digital Development Manager?
We don’t. Not unless you count me! But Gill & Macmillan do and he has just started a really interesting blog: Binary or Bust The title kinda gives his games away and the tagline offers even further...
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Guardian innovates
Eoin Purcell Open Platform In what seems like a smart play to me the Guardian has created an API and a data tool. The API puts articles and news features (and crucuially advertising from The Guardian)...
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Springer Images: A simple but important idea
Eoin Purcell A screen capture from the SpringerImages site I like SpringImages.com and not just because I am the kind of nerd who will use it. Even without paying a subscription you get pretty broad...
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Some Thoughts On: Why Publishing Cannot Be Saved (As It Is) An Editorial by...
Eoin Purcell Johan Gutenberg (Thanks to Flikr user Robert Scarth: http://www.flickr.com/photos/robert_scarth/) Things will get worse for publishers as they currently exist! The increasingly wonderful...
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Ebooks, heating up? People disagree!
Eoin Purcell Seriously mixed up day for me on the ebook front, reading wise that is! I still find it hard to deal with the fact that there can be such differing opinions on ebooks as you’ll read here....
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Start With XML update
Eoin Purcell Last week I had the distinct pleasure of attending the StartWithXML seminar that O’Reilly, Idea Logical & The Publishers Licensing Society ran in the British Library. The event itself...
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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 been better, though survival on their own would have been pretty unlikely...
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One Thing EVERY Publisher Should Do (and doesn’t cost a penny)
Lots of publishers have been rolling out new media and social media strategies and yet they are failing to do really basic things. There are some VERY simple things that can improve your site...
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