• Irish Publishing Company Secures Chinese Contract

    Updated: 2012-03-30 18:06:54
    Irish company Management Briefs has successfully negotiated a new publishing partnership with two Chinese companies as part of the Taoiseach led Enterprise Ireland Trade & Investment Mission to China. An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny TD was present during the formal signing of the contract. Managing Director Frank Scott-Lennon signed the contract which marks a collaboration between read more »

  • New ebooks Feature Fiction And Poetry By 30 Of Ireland’s Young Writers

    Updated: 2012-03-30 15:26:08
    Wordlegs.com, an online journal for young Irish writers, has created two ebooks, wordlegs Presents: 30 Under 30 I and II. The ebooks were launched on the  site on Monday 12th March 2012. The team at wordlegs.com editor, Elizabeth Reapy, and artistic director, Cathal Sherlock, say the ebooks represent an extension of the website and feature a collection read more »

  • 1916 Centenary Publishing Heats Up

    Updated: 2012-03-30 10:25:25
    As noted by John Bowman in a welcoming address for the inaugural Edward Carson Lecture at Iveagh House, Dublin last night (Thursday 29th March 2012), the period between 1911-23 went as quickly for those living them as 2000-12 has gone for us. Yet that same period was packed with momentous events and movements the like read more »

  • IPN Shorts 30 March 2012

    Updated: 2012-03-30 08:20:08
    Issue 1 of THE SOUTH CIRCULAR (covered here last week), available to download from www.thesouthcircular.com for just €3.00, features four stories by emerging authors Eddie Stack, Eley Williams, Shane Hulgraine and Adrian Duncan. The cover jacket features the work of young Irish illustrator and designer, Fuchsia Macaree. THE SOUTH CIRCULAR is now taking submissions for issue read more »

  • How Do Not Track will obliterate online privacy

    Updated: 2012-03-29 22:00:39
    Why did Google consolidate all of their privacy policies? Perhaps it is in preparation for “Do Not Track.” A “Do Not Track” system only works when a user is anonymously browsing a website. Once a user logs in to any site, they are tracked. When we do not know a user’s basic demographic structure and [...]

  • Jobs | Rights Assistant | Liberties Press

    Updated: 2012-03-29 19:45:07
    Liberties Press is seeking a Rights Assistant to join its growing Dublin-based team. The successful candidate will maintain the company’s rights database, make appointments for the London and Frankfurt Book Fairs, send sales material and sample text to international publishers, and maintain contact with our network of rights agents. Relevant experience would be useful but read more »

  • Harry Potter Ebooks Released by Pottermore

    Updated: 2012-03-27 16:07:01
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  • Briefly Noted | Hachette snaps up Blyton estate | The Bookseller

    Updated: 2012-03-27 09:48:32
    Hachette UK has acquired worldwide rights in the Enid Blyton estate, excluding Noddy, from Chorion. Hachette Children’s Books m.d. Marlene Johnson said: “I am absolutely delighted that we have acquired world rights to publish Enid Blyton. Hodder was her original publisher, so it is fitting that her whole portfolio has come home and will now read more »

  • Briefly Noted | 2012 Bologna Book Fair Review: “Confidence and Opportunity” | Publishing Perspectives

    Updated: 2012-03-27 09:39:54
    One TOC, four days of actual book fair, roughly 70 miles walked, approximately 30 pounds of catalogs gathered, and hundreds of exchanged business cards later, my first Bologna Children’s Book Festival is finito. It was a memorable, exhausting, and exhilarating week. I left Bologna with sore and tired feet, a couple of pounds heavier from all read more »

  • Book Launch: Crossfire: The Battle of The Four Courts, 1916

    Updated: 2012-03-26 15:24:50
    New Island will launch Crossfire: The Battle of The Four Courts, 1916 on Wednesday 28th March at 6pm in the Distillery Building 145-151 Church Street. The book is the first of a new Series entitle 1916 In Focus and is written by Paul O’Brien. Blurb: The exciting military history of one of the toughest fights read more »

  • Collusion

    Updated: 2012-03-19 16:13:07
    defined as: “a secret understanding between two or more persons to gain something illegally, to defraud another of his or her rights, or to appear as adversaries though in agreement” If, a major search engine consistantly responded to large search advertisers complaints about organic search results of other web sites while ignoring complaints from non-advertisers [...]

  • Irish Short Story eJournal, The South Circular, To Focus On Smart Phone & Tablet Users

    Updated: 2012-03-16 09:37:29
    The first edition of new short story ejournal The South Circular will be published on 26 March 2012. The ejournal will be published online and in epub format for Android and iOS devices for just €3.00 and  features four stories by emerging authors Eddie Stack, Eley Williams, Shane Hulgraine and Adrian Duncan. The cover jacket features the read more »

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