Liberties Press is delighted to announce that Tony Hayes will be handling sales for Liberties Press on a temporary basis for the next six months. If you have any queries about any of our backlist or frontlist titles, please feel free to contact him at tonyhayes.butlersims@gmail.com.

Liberties Press
7 Rathfarnham Rd
Terenure
Dublin 6w
www.LibertiesPress.com

Liberties Press, Ireland’s leading independent publisher, is seeking to appoint a full-time sales representative to join its dynamic Dublin-based team. Reporting to the MD, the successful applicant will be responsible for securing orders for wholesale and retail accounts and helping formulate an overall sales strategy to drive growth. Relevant experience essential.

Please apply in writing with CV and covering letter by end November to Sales Representative Position, Liberties Press, GEC, Taylors Lane, Dublin 8.

Contact sean@libertiespress.com for more information.

Irish Publishing News has changed. From now on the focus of the site will be weekly rather than daily.

That means that while there may be news stories posted at other times, the majority of stories will go live on Fridays. This may, over time, impact on the type of stories the site covers and how it covers them, but for now the content will be the same.

It also means that accessing IPN daily may not always yield new content*.

For those who dislike this change, I hope time will convince you that it’s a worthwhile one, for those of you who enjoy the shift, great.

Eoin Purcell
Editor & Publisher
Irish Publishing News 

* Other than Briefly Noted posts which will continue to be posted as they arise.

Today marks the release of the first IPN Premium Annual Report On Irish Publishing.

The report, researched and authored by Irish Publishing News’ Editor and Bookseller contributor Eoin Purcell, features 30 pages of incisive commentary on the strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for both native and foreign-based companies operating in the book publishing industry in Ireland.

The IPN Premium Annual Report On Irish Publishing is an essential part of your preparation for 2011 and beyond. It is the only independent analysis of the Irish publishing industry and contains exclusive material that is available nowhere else.

From trends among readers to signs of change in business models and the difficult landscape of book retailing, the report will provide an in-depth and comprehensive exploration of where Irish publishing is now, where it is going and a detailed reflection on the past year.

It also investigates the impact and the likely benefits of digital publishing on the print-based book industry in Ireland.

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Don’t be alarmed if over the next week or so, articles from The Guardian begin to appear on site.

Irish Publishing News is testing The Guardian News Feed plugin for WordPress, which enabled the site to pull in items from The Guardian’s extensive content library.

In fact, the first fruits of this test are now live.

Eoin Purcell
Editor, Irish Publishing News

The July edition of Published This Month goes live on Wednesday 7th July. The deadline for inclusion for July 2010 is the 1pm Friday 2nd July. There is an excel sheet available to make submission easier on the contact page of IrishPublishingNews.com.

Last week, Irish Publishing News welcomed its first new contributer, Robert Maguire. Today we welcome a second. Daniel Bolger, has posted his first article.

Dan Bolger is an American book editor at an independent publishing company in Dublin and an occasional book reviewer for The Irish Times.

I’m delighted to have Daniel on board and I look forward to adding more contributors over the coming months.

Eoin Purcell
Editor, Irish Publishing News

Today is an exciting day for Irish Publishing News. Our first regular contributor has posted his first article.
Robert Maguire is a musician and freelance journalist. A self-professed jack of all trades, he has studied film and psychology; worked in bookselling, and been involved in music for several years.
As a writer, he has contributed to several online publications, including Egoeccentric and Connected Magazine.
As a musician he performs with the Irish based alternative-rock band Clockwork Noise.
Robert’s articles for Irish Publishing News will be primarily longer feature pieces, much like his first contribution; Literature In The Face Of Recession: A Profile Of The Dalkey Book Festival

I’m delighted to have Robert on board and I look forward to adding more contributors over the coming months.

Eoin Purcell
Editor, Irish Publishing News

Maverick House are welcoming volunteers to join a reader’s panel to assess and discuss manuscripts. If you are interested in joining this panel, please email info [AT] maverickhouse.com with some details about yourself. Experience is not necessary, but an interest in nonfiction would be an advantage. Please put ‘Readers Panel’ in the subject bar of your email.

Apologies for the extended break in coverage. I have been on holiday. Coverage will resume on Monday including discussion of the iPad, the Macmillan V amazon spat and much more.

Eoin Purcell
Editor