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Daily Links 03/08/2010

One Thousand Casmurros from LiveAD on Vimeo.

This is, I think you will agree, pretty cool!


A review of Hypothermia by Arnaldur Indridason (Harvill Secker 2009; 2007 Icelandic)
Great review for Arnaldur Indridason’s Hypothermia
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Amazon sells out of both Kindles days after launch
Quite a feat!
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Odyssey not commercial, says Makinson
Yes with a but!
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Amazon claims to have 70-80% of e-book market
Which in many ways demonstrates that the market is changing rapidly. Last year it would surely have been 90-95%.
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Want to choose your own adventure? There’s a books app for that
This is a nice development
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E-books to account for 10% of RH US sales, says Dohle
That’s a huge figure!
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The Checklist Manifesto
Nice note this from Raven Books
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Sunday Tribune Paperbacks Tom Widger
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Review: A Mobile Fortune: The Life and Times of Denis O’Brien by Siobhan Creaton
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Review: Dancing Prest by Aidan O’Connor
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Review: The Passage by Justin Cronin
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Review: Broken by Karin Slaughter
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Review: Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex bu Eoin Colfer
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Ten years of publishing worth its Salt
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Summer Fun at Scariff Library
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Dún Laoghaire Festival of World Cultures
They’ve used the cover for one of the first books I published!
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Sixties Fishing Guides
These are excellent
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Book launch: Executed for Ireland
Executed for Ireland: The Patrick Moran Story by May Moran was recently launched in King House, Boyle, Co Roscommon and in Kilmainham Jail.
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DLR LIBRARY BLOG
Two reviews from DLR Libraries today!
MAGIC UNIVERSE BY NIGEL CALDER.
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THE SLAP BY CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS
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Author Events News

Dubray Blackrock To Host Little Island Children’s Event

One of Little Island’s crop of writers will take part in a reading in Dubray’s Blackrock store on Wednesday 4 August at 6pm.

Local Author Kevin Stevens will read from This Ain’t No Video Game, Kid!.

He will be joined by some young performers from Dublin theatre groups reading from New Town Soul by Dermot Bolger which is based in the suburb.

The event is free and the publishers want as many people to come as possible to attend so RSVP!

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Neil Jordan To Direct Film Version Of Skippy Dies

Variety reports that Neil Jordan will adapt and direct a film version of Paul Murray’s Booker nominated Skippy Dies.

Jordan will team up with Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen of Number 9 Films with whom he worked on The Crying Game.

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CJ Fallon & HMH Launch Irish Version Of Destination Maths

Irish Educational publisher CJ Fallon has worked with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) to launch a localised version of HMH’s internationally used Destination Maths.

The site is based on CJ Fallon’s Mathemagic series and can be access on the website DestinationMaths.ie.

HMH, formerly know as Riverdeep, is headed by Irishman Barry O’Callaghan. Earlier this year it underwent a radical refinancing that wiped put considerable shareholder value.

The division behind this development is HMH Innovation based in Dublin.

CJ Fallon is one of Ireland’s oldest and best known educational publishers.