• Google’s blanket Motorola denial

    Updated: 2012-02-27 16:57:20
    Lets put this in a time capsule and revisit it in 5 years: ..Rubin also said the simple mathematics of Motorola’s single-digit marketshare would keep Google from overly interfering. “Even if I was completely insane, it wouldn’t make any sense for me to think that we could get Motorola to be 90 plus percent marketshare,” [...]

  • Briefly Noted | The short story gets big – The Irish Times – Sat, Feb 25, 2012

    Updated: 2012-02-25 14:18:25
    Rather nice piece on short stories in the Irish Times this weekend. Well worth a read: So what’s the story? Is it all just a coincidence or is something new in the literary air? Our passion for electronic media provides part of the answer. Bloomsbury spells it out in an online introduction to its spring read more »

  • Irish Digital Only Fiction Publisher Laucnhes

    Updated: 2012-02-24 09:43:57
    A new digital publisher has launched in Kildare. Tirgearr Publishing is (by our estimate) Ireland’s first digital-only publisher focused on fiction. The company, founded by author Kemberlee Shortland, is primarily a publisher of adult genre fiction (from the look of the launch list primarily romance titles). According to the company its business model, ‘dispenses with read more »

  • Briefly Noted | ‘Proactive’ indies become regional winners | The Bookseller

    Updated: 2012-02-24 09:04:13
    Three shops—Mainstreet Trading from St Boswells in the Scottish Borders, Dublin’s The Gutter Bookshop and The Chorleywood Bookshop—have all won their regions for the second consecutive year. Mainstreet also previously won the Walker Books ­Children’s Independent Bookshop of the Year in 2009.    Rosamund de la Hey, who co-owns Mainstreet with husband Bill, said Mainstreet read more »

  • Irish Ebook Sales: Radio Interview Shifts Kindle Edition

    Updated: 2012-02-23 22:36:15
    In an interesting shift, an Irish radio interview has led to an ebook edition of a book spiking on Amazon’s bestseller lists. Constable author, Tim Newark, whose book, The Fighting Irish was the subject of a Pat Kenny interview Wednesday 22nd February. By the end of the day the book had climbed to the top read more »

  • The IT Tackles Ebook Pricing Why should the price of ebooks . . . be on the floor?

    Updated: 2012-02-21 09:17:04
    Actually a nice piece on ebook pricing in The Irish Times. Interestingly there’s a fairly broad set of views on pricing from the Irish industry including a somewhat reluctant sounding Stuart Neville: John Mooney is in broad agreement. “The traditional publishing model is long dead,” he says. “Maverick House does offer some ebooks at low read more »

  • Briefly Noted | Publishers make bid to close filesharing sites | Technology | guardian.co.uk

    Updated: 2012-02-20 00:55:49
    Ireland-based websites Library.nu and ifile.it were served with cease and desist court orders on Tuesday after two major publishing groups accused the sites of earning $10.6m £6.7m in revenue a year. The action against alleged filesharers came amid fresh opposition to controversial anti-piracy legislation in Europe. Internet advocacy groups have expressed concern about the Anti-Counterfeiting read more »

  • Briefly Noted | The bargain bookseller | Get London Reading

    Updated: 2012-02-13 15:15:50
    The numbers involved are colossal, driven by those low prices: last year The Book People sold 250,000 cook books by Jamie Oliver, 130,000 by baking model Lorraine Pascale, plus 120,000 books of poetry. In a world where a new novel rarely sells 1,000 copies, this gives them vast power. “They are the biggest customer for read more »

  • Briefly Noted | Eight years late and six times over budget, a book on the history of St Stephen’s Green is costing the taxpayer €900 per copy – National News – Independent.ie

    Updated: 2012-02-13 09:44:45
    Instead the OPW dramatically scaled back what they wanted, despite paying about €400,000. It was agreed the author would write a standalone title on St Stephens Green. The book ‘St Stephens Green 1660-1875’ has been acclaimed by critics, but has sold only 443 copies since it was published in October. The book retails at €35, read more »

  • Nominations sought for next Laureate na nÓg

    Updated: 2012-02-13 00:29:02
    CBI is currently inviting nominations for Laureate na nÓg 2012 -2014. This important initiative was instigated in 2010 with the inauguration of Siobhán Parkinson as Ireland’s first children’s literature laureate. Siobhán will complete her imaginative and successful term  in May 2012 so now is the time to nominate an Irish author or illustrator to be read more »

  • Four Irish Bookstores In Battle For Independent Bookseller Of The Year

    Updated: 2012-02-10 17:00:55
    The Gutter Bookshop in Temple Bar is one of four Irish bookstores nominated for the Independent Bookseller of the Year Award, 2012. They form one of seven regional sub-categories in the competition which offers a prize of £5,000 The final regional winners will be decided by The Bookseller, Gardners and the BA will pick seven regional winners read more »

  • What to do when no one is looking for your product and you own where they are looking

    Updated: 2012-02-02 22:54:31
    “Let’s siphon off some of this traffic for ourselves”

  • Working Hard with Working Person’s Store

    Updated: 2012-02-02 20:22:57
    Extending the reach of traditionally printed catalogs across multiple digital channels and connecting consumers to products in innovative, engaging ways has become an important marketing strategy. We are excited to be closely teaming with Working Person’s Store because they fully embrace this approach. It’s important to us that our digital catalogs deliver a user experience

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