Daily Archives: January 11, 2010

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Daily Links 11/01/2010

30 editions on, it’s as fresh as ever
A post from O’Brien about under the Hawthorn Tree! A classic from my childhood!
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Anne Enright: Ireland’s Recession
Anne Enright has an article in the London Review of Books and discusses the recession!
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O’Brien, H&H team up with Kelloggs
The Bookseller catches up with the news of O’Brien & Kellogg partnership.
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Here come the girls!
David reckons 2010 is the year of the girls!
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A Whole New World of Publishing (for me)
The challenging world of small publishing in Ireland as brought to you by Zoe
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Why bookplates speak volumes – The Irish Times – Mon, Jan 11, 2010
Interesting article on the Times today about bookplates!
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Book reviews and paper perusing
David carries some notes on his reading of Publishers Weekly
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Books & Authors Publishing

When Will Digital Impact In Ireland?

My Poor Kindle 2
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Despite the availability of Sony’s Reader and Amazon’s Kindle, digital publishing doesn’t seem to have made a huge impact in Ireland. I say seem because there is the possibility that sales have occurred through sites and companies unknown to us or who simply don’t split Irish sales of ebooks out of their larger operations. We could in fact be seeing significant sales just not knowing about them.

With the huge number of releases of ereaders and devices at the Consumer Electronics Show this week however, it is quite clear that the electronics industry is keen to push consumers towards ereading, if only as a way to sell devices.

In order to get some idea of where Irish people stand on ebooks, ereaders and digital reading, we’ve decided to release a survey into the wilds of the internets (you can fill it out below or take it on a separate page here). Please take some time to fill it out, we will report all the results towards the end of the month.


Announcement

Do You Have A Story?

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.

News

The Weekly Round Up – Irish Publishing News, Week One

The Big Freeze In Dublin (2010)
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The articles and features from the first week of Irish Publishing News’ existence.

We’ve chosen to exclude the Daily Links as we work through the hiccups we have had with them this week.

Thanks for the support and we look forward to week two,

Editor

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