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Maverick House Seeking Volunteers For A Reader's Panel

March 24, 2010 – 1:48 pm

Maverick House are welcoming volunteers to join a reader’s panel to assess and discuss manuscripts. If you are interested in joining this panel, please email info [AT] maverickhouse.com with some details about yourself. Experience is not necessary, but an interest in nonfiction would be an advantage. Please put ‘Readers Panel’ in the subject bar of your email.

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Editor’s Note – Normal Service Will Resume Monday 8th February

February 2, 2010 – 3:38 pm

Apologies for the extended break in coverage. I have been on holiday. Coverage will resume on Monday including discussion of the iPad, the Macmillan V amazon spat and much more.

Eoin Purcell
Editor

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New Features and Book Of The Week

January 17, 2010 – 8:13 am

You may have noticed the changes to the site this week. As we noted in our sidebar warning, the site needed a refresh in order to display the range of content that has been growing steadily and will grow even more over the next few weeks. We trialled magazine style and newspaper style front pages but they didn’t quite suit, yet we needed ti showcase some of the older material.

So now you will see a bunch of new plugins to the right of the homepage that mostly do what they say on the tin:

    POPULAR POSTS: Is a list of the most popular posts for the last week
    CATEGORIES: Is a weighted cloud of the categories in which we place posts and articles, see the note on taxonomy below to understand how we use Categories and Tags
    RECENT COMMENTS: Features the last five or so comments site wide (feel free to pitch in)
    RECENT POSTS: Features the last few posts and articles chronologically.
    BOOK OF THE WEEK: We’ll skip for now
    SIGN UP: A sign up form for our mailing list (NB: not subscription to the news feed)
    TAGS: The second taxonomy we use for organising content.

We added the BOOK OF THE WEEK feature just to brighten things up on the site. This will be un-sponsored (so no influence can be brought to bear) and the choice will be eclectic and highly personal. We hope it appeals to readers. We will be creating a weekly archive of the selected titles as we move into 2010.

A Note On Taxonomy
Categories are and will remain the high level identifier for our content. They are deliberately broad and we try to keep them to a limited number.

There is a second much narrower level of organisation, Tagging. Tags are general names or people, organisations or even words that are more specific to a topic or item in question. O’Brien Press for instance need not be a category but people may well wish to investigate the recent stories filed under their tag or perhaps look at the recent ebook news that we have featured. Tags enable that in depth digging with a single click.

Right now, we don’t see a need to go deeper, especially as many articles have at least one category and two or more tags, but as always, we welcome feedback and taxonomy os no different.

We hope you like the look and feel of the newly renovated site and enjoy the new features and the new navigation aides.

Eoin Purcell
Editor

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Do You Have A Story?

January 11, 2010 – 8:54 am

Irish Publishing News is committed to being open and accessible to everyone who thinks, writes or is simply interested in the Publishing Industry in Ireland.

What that in mind we are opening these pages to news and comment from those within the industry and to those outside who have an interest.

There are of course some restrictions on what Irish Publishing News can and will publish. For instance reviews are not the purpose of this site and neither are author interviews, competitions or giveaways. However, publisher interviews that deal with the industry, feature stories that describe emerging trends and opinion pieces that deal with any aspect of the trade will be welcomed.

Do you have a feature idea, an opinion piece or even a news item that you would like to write or even see written? We’d welcome you feedback or input so feel free to contact the Editor (editor[at]irishpublishingnews.com) with your thoughts.

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Where Does The Site Fall Down?

January 4, 2010 – 5:33 pm

This is an interesting experiment to be honest. So far I have figured the NEED for the following:

    1) An RSS feed for the page (this will be resolved when I move to a stand alone platform)
    2) An archive
    3) Proper search capacities
    4) Some kind of submission tool for readers to send in links

Anyone know a better plugin that does those things?

Eoin

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What is Irish Publishing News?

January 4, 2010 – 5:29 pm

Irish Publishing News is a news aggregator of Irish publishers, authors, newspapers and other organisations in the book industry.

It was and remains far from perfect and needs more hand crafting than I’d like on a daily basis, but with some fine tuning over the next few weeks, I hope to create a really useful resource for anyone interested in Irish Publishing.

I’d welcome input from any quarter on how to develop it further. Some areas I think it can improve:

      1) More fresh news (send in your stories)

 

      2) Better features (send in your ideas or your copy)

 

      3) Better tools like databases and search features (I’m working on it)

 

    4) Paper versions (would you pay?)

Eoin
Green Lamp Media

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