Book Republic Acquires The Rights To Book Of Sheen Movie
Book Republic, the ’boutique’ imprint run by Maverick House, has acquired world rights to Stella Days 1957-1967: The Life and Times of a Rural Irish Cinema. The book was written by Michael Doorley and is the basis for a forthcoming…
Irish Top Ten Week Ending 09/04/2011
After a bumper week of sales for mother’s day, it was inevitable that the top ten would see some fall back, and it did. Sales fell by just under half for the top ten titles, dramatic but not as scary…
Emma Donoghue Makes The Orange Prize Shortlist
Emma Donoghue has made the Orange Prize shortlist with her novel, Room. The Orange Prize for Fiction is the UK’s only annual book award for fiction written by a woman and this year is celebrating its sixteenth anniversary. The winner…
Roderick Hunt Most Borrowed Author In Irish Libraries in 2010
Roderick Hunt, author of over 300 titles in the Oxford Reading Tree series, is Ireland’s most borrowed author for the second successive year with over 115,000 library loans. Daisy Meadows, creator of the Rainbow Magic series, was the second most-borrowed…
Briefly Noted | Former Random House CEO Alberto Vitale: Paper Books Will Evolve into More Precious Products – Knowledge@Wharton
Alberto Vitale was running Bantam Books, the world leader in paperbacks, when the Newhouse family recruited him to become the COO of Random House. In that role, and later as the CEO of one of the worlds top publishing firms,…
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