Derek Landy’s book, Skulduggery Pleasant, has won the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book of the Decade competition. His book came top of an online poll of nearly 5,000 readers.
Landy beat off competition from authors such as Edna O’Brien, William Trevor, Cathy Kelly, Anne Enright, Cecelia Ahern, Colm Tobin, Bill Cullen, Roy Keane, Eamon Dunphy and [...]
David Maybury who visited the store this lunchtime and took the image, that the Hughes & Hughes store in Stephen’s Green is trading and has new stock.
It has been a busy month for Irish Publishing News. So busy we didn’t get a round up post out so here, as a monthly digest, it is! To celebrate the iPad launch in the UK and the forthcoming launch here in July we’ve added a rather nice image from Flickr User Jesus Belzunce.
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If you have read the news about Larsson’s Publisher Quercus this morning in The Bookseller, you will know that his series has changed the fortunes of that company quite dramatically:
Stieg Larsson’s UK publisher Quercus has reported strong results for the 2009 calendar year, with turnover up 75%, profits up 4,150% and a positive cash [...]
The new Hughes & Hughes owners, Sivota Ltd, will reopen the Hughes & Hughes St Stephen’s Green bookshop next Monday after reaching agreement with the landlord despite what Hughes & Hughes CEO Derek Hughes has called “strong competition from Eason”.
When it opens the St Stephen’s Green store will be the fifth of a hoped [...]
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O'Reilly Media Home About Directory Blog Community Archives Webcasts Resources Reading News Is DRM More Costly Than Piracy Thoughts on leveraging marketing strategy and DRM-free content Brett Sandusky May 6, 2010 Permalink Comments 9 Listen Recently , I've been thinking a lot about building better read : strategic eBooks . The more that I've tried to wrap my head around what would work and what wouldn't , I keep coming back to the idea of reversing self-imposed constraints and searching for opportunity in areas from which we've closed off opportunity . One such area is DRM . As a practice , wrapping content in DRM finds its justification in the fact that digital content is being pirated across the internet and distributed to people who we presume could be customers . These lost customers
O'Reilly Media Home About Directory Blog Community Archives Webcasts Resources Reading News Session Speaker Ideas for TOC Frankfurt 2010 Andrew Savikas May 5, 2010 Permalink Comments 0 Listen Last year's first-ever TOC Frankfurt turned out better than we'd even hoped , with a 400-strong sellout crowd representing a diverse range of international publishers . We've lined up a bigger venue which we hope will also help address some of the glitches faced around room size last year and are thrilled to be teaming up again with the Frankfurt Book Fair to put on TOC Frankfurt the day before the start of the Book . Fair Because it's still a relatively small event , we're not doing a full-scale Call for Proposals , but we've set up a simple web form for submitting session and speaker ideas as we
, O'Reilly Media Home About Directory Blog Community Archives Webcasts Resources Reading News Tilting at Bookish Windmills , Or How the iPad Saved Spanish Language Day Pablo Francisco Arrieta Gomez May 4, 2010 Permalink Comments 8 Listen I'm a reader . An avid reader on any surface And a . teacher It's been almost a month since the U.S . saw the arrival of the iPad . Long lines awaited the release , and as expected people had mixed emotions after having one in their hands . On that Saturday morning , as with many other international events , here in Latin America we were just spectators , reading reviews of the machine and apps , and dreaming about the moment when we could get our hands on one months away if you are going to wait for the local release of the device Via the web we saw power