Monthly Archives: September 2011

Irish Top Ten News

Irish Top Ten Week Ending 24/09/2011

September 30, 2011 – 9:47 am

It’s quite the week for Ross O’Carroll Kelly with a whopping 2,743 sales his book tops the charts nicely. It’s no bad week for his publisher either, as his stablemate, Simon Carswell’s Anglo Republic scored a remarkable 1,179.

Irish authors hold up well (aided by a book written by a quartet or Irish women).

Christmas is hinted at by the presence of the Guinness World Records but the strength of the week rests primarily on ROCK and the phenomenal selling power of One Day by David Nicholls.

1: Nama Mia!, Ross O’Carroll-Kelly, 2,743
2: One Day, David Nicholls, 1,963
3: Kill Alex Cross, James Patterson, 1,269
4: Anglo Republic:Inside the Bank That Broke Ireland, Simon Carswell, 1,179
5: The Burning Soul, John Connolly, 797
6: The Decision, Penny Vincenzi, 781
7: The Help, Kathryn Stockett, 826
8: Click Click, Joyce Kavanagh, June Kavanagh, Paula Kavanagh, Marian Quinn, 663
9: Guinness World Records 2012, 630
10: Ma, I’ve Got Meself Locked Up in the Madhouse, Martha Long, 621

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Top Ten Dynamics
IPN is running a top ten dynamics section looking at the top ten with some data drawn out. Nothing too dramatic, but useful nonetheless.

Volume: 11,472 Units
Average Units Per Title: 1,147
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Fiction: 6 titles, 8,379 units or 73%
Non-Fiction: 4 titles, 3,093 units or 27%
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Authors: 12 (plus one corporate authors)
Irish Authors: 8, 66%
<strong>Irish Published Books: 0
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Average RRP: £13.29

Data Supplied by Nielsen BookScan taken from the Irish Consumer Market week ending 24th September 2011

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Apple iBookstore LIVE in Ireland

September 30, 2011 – 8:53 am

Irish consumers can now purchase ebooks through Apple’s iBooks reading application.

Irish readers can purchase Maeve Binchy (one of three features Bestselling Irish Authors) ebooks for as little as €1.99.

Apple’s Irish customers can buy in Euro and directly through iBooks/iTunes Ireland rather than being forced to use the US store unlike the Amazon Kindle offering.

Until this launch visitors to the Irish iBookstore were offered only public domain books or books that Apple had chosen to make available for free.

As well as launching their iBookstore business in Ireland, the tech company yesterday brought 25 other countries around Europe into the program including Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Replublic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portgal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.

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WH Smith To Open In Arnotts

September 30, 2011 – 8:35 am

WH Smith is to open a store in the Arnotts department store in Dublin city centre.

The opening will mark the first time the retailer has opened in a location outside of an airport in the republic, although the company does have a high street store in Belfast.

The company’s career site is currently advertising the position of  supervisor for the store.

The store will operate as part of WH SMith’s Travel rather than the high street operation and will open in October 2011.

The Arnotts location puts the store in competition with the Eason’s flagship O’Connell Street branch and the newly opened Hughes & Hughes in the Jervis Street centre.

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Tom Duddy On Seamus Heaney Centre Poetry Prize Shortlist

September 30, 2011 – 8:30 am

Irish author Tom Duddy is the only Irish poet to make the short list for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry with his debut poetry collection, The Hiding Place.

The Hiding Place, which is published by Arlen House, has also recently been shortlisted for the Aldeburgh First Collection Award in the UK.

The winner pf the prize will be announced on 25 November 2011 at a presentation with John Montague. The Chair of the judges is Professor Harry Clifton, Ireland Chair of Poetry.

The full shortlist for the prize is:
Tom Duddy, The Hiding Place (Arlen House)
Valerie Duff, To the New World (Salmon Poetry)
Anna Robinson, The Finders of London (Enitharmon Press)
Victor Tapner, Flatlands (Salt Publishing)
Katherine Towers, The Floating Man (Picador)

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Moth Magazine To Offer Poetry Pamphlets

September 30, 2011 – 8:05 am

Cavan based quarterly arts & literature magazine The Moth has launched a new series of miniature poetry books.

According to the magazine, ‘The moth editions are small (at a mere 10cm high and 32 pages long) but perfectly formed. The aim of the series is to present new work by up-and-coming writers and selected work by already established writers ‒ from Ireland and abroad.’

The first four titles in the series are Some Poems by Dermot Healy, Ciarán O’Rourke, Kate Dempsey and Ted McCarthy and all will be published on 7 October 2011.

The series is edited by the editor of The Moth magazine, Rebecca O’Connor, whose collection Poems was published by the Wordsworth Trust. Her poems have appeared in The Guardian, The Spectator, The Stinging Fly, Poetry Ireland Review and Poetry Review.

The magazine was launched at the Flat Lake Festival in June 2010.

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Lilliput Press Launches Ebook Range

September 30, 2011 – 7:53 am

Dublin based Independent publisher of fiction and non-fiction Lilliput Press has launched a first collection of ebooks.

The publisher partnered with UK-based Faber Factory (a division of publisher Faber & Faber) to digitize and distribute a large number of its titles.

The company’s collection will include literary classics, such as Dead as Doornails by Anthony Cronin and Cowslips and Chainies by Elaine Crowley, as well as their more recent titles, Hollywood Irish by Adrian Frazier, Watching the Door by Kevin Myers and Leaving Ardglass by William King.

The publisher is also re-­issuing some vintage out-­of-­print books like North of Naples, South of Rome by Paolo Tullio, the Skelligs trilogy by Michael Kirby, Conversations with James Joyce by Arthur Power and Black List Section H by Francis Stuart.

In addition, Lilliput has acquired the digital rights to J.P. Donleavy’s backlist, including The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B, Meet My Maker the Mad Molecule, The Saddest Summer of Samuel S, Ireland – A Singular Country and The History of the Ginger Man.

The company say that they ‘are giving generous royalty terms to our authors and hope to expand our list to attract other Irish writers to our ebook stable.’

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Briefly Noted | Trident Media Launches E-Book Program for its Clients

September 27, 2011 – 5:45 am

Trident Media Group will become the latest literary agency to directly distribute e-books from its authors, announcing plans to launch Trident E-Book Operations, a full service e-book publishing program that will distribute Trident author e-books directly to both domestic and international e-book retailers.

Trident chairman Robert Gottlieb will oversee the e-book operations and said the new e-book venture is an effort to give authors more “flexibility” in managing potential domestic and foreign digital revenue streams. “We will continue to manage all facets of our clients businesses by the extension of our services into the ever-changing e-book publishing business around the world. Trident Media Group will devise strategies to maximize value for its authors in the new and complex e-book publishing field,” Gottlieb said in a prepared statement.

via Trident Media Launches E-Book Program for its Clients.

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Briefly Noted | Publishers expect comedy memoirs to top bestsellers list this Christmas | Books | The Observer

September 26, 2011 – 6:00 am

This arbitrary day in autumn is so named because it offers the best chance for potential Christmas bestsellers to launch on the mass market. Strong contenders for 2011 include a clutch of autobiographies by leading comedians, confirming that the light entertainment life story is now the publishing industrys safest bet – despite the fact that many of the prominent titles launched this time last year failed to sell as well as expected.

From Thursday, books by James Corden, Johnny Vegas, Lee Evans and Jason Manford are set to lead the pack, but a second tranche by well-known comedians is due to come out two weeks later, on 13 October, with the hope of coming up on the inside track. These include Rob Brydons Small Man in a Book, which publishers Michael Joseph have billed as “a funny, heartfelt, honest, sometimes sad, but mainly funny, memoir of how a young man from Wales very, very slowly became an overnight success”.

via Publishers expect comedy memoirs to top bestsellers list this Christmas | Books | The Observer.

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Briefly Noted | Amazon founder heads digital advance on Guardian books power list | Books | guardian.co.uk

September 24, 2011 – 11:22 am

Seismic shifts in the publishing world, transforming the way we buy and read books, have propelled Amazon’s chief executive Jeff Bezos into the number one slot of the Guardian and Observer’s Books 100 Power List.

According to Lisa Allardice, the editor of Guardian Review, “Amazon has given readers a limitless choice of books in a way that no bookseller or publisher has ever done before. It has dealt the high-street bookshop a near-fatal battering, completely changing not only the way we buy books, but also the way we read them, as the huge success of the Kindle shows.”

via Amazon founder heads digital advance on Guardian books power list | Books | guardian.co.uk.

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Irish Top Ten News

Irish Top Ten Week Ending 17/09/2011

September 23, 2011 – 7:54 am

An interesting top ten this week. For one thing, Penguin Ireland will be pleased with a fiction AND a non-fiction title sitting happily in the top five. What’s more along with Stockett’s, The Help, Penguin published titles make up 30% of titles in the top ten.

The list of Irish authors is also pretty strong with four making the top ten.

1: One Day, David Nicholls, 2,470
2: Skulduggery Pleasant: Death Bringer, Derek Landy, 1,253
3: The Burning Soul, John Connolly, 1,047
4: Anglo Republic:Inside the Bank That Broke Ireland, Simon Carswell, 986
5: Nama Mia!, Ross O’Carroll-Kelly, 852
6: The Help, Kathryn Stockett, 833
7: On Canaan’s Side, Sebastian Barry, 756
8: Ma, I’ve Got Meself Locked Up in the Madhouse, Martha Long, 707
9: Walk on:My Life in Red, Ronnie Whelan & Tommy Conlon, 621
10: Headhunters, Jo Nesbo, 614

Top Ten Dynamics
IPN is running a top ten dynamics section looking at the top ten with some data drawn out. Nothing too dramatic, but useful nonetheless.

Volume: 10,139 Units
Average Units Per Title: 1,014

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Fiction: 7 titles, 7,852 units or 77.18%
Non-Fiction: 3 titles, 2,314 units or 22.82%

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Authors: 10
Irish Authors: 3, 30%
Irish Published Books: 0, 0%

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Average RRP: £12.19

Data Supplied by Nielsen BookScan taken from the Irish Consumer Market week ending 17th September 2011

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