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Briefly NotedHarry Potter Ebooks Released by Pottermore
March 27, 2012 – 3:07 pm
Briefly Noted | Hachette snaps up Blyton estate | The Bookseller
March 27, 2012 – 8:48 am
Hachette UK has acquired worldwide rights in the Enid Blyton estate, excluding Noddy, from Chorion.
Hachette Children’s Books m.d. Marlene Johnson said: “I am absolutely delighted that we have acquired world rights to publish Enid Blyton. Hodder was her original publisher, so it is fitting that her whole portfolio has come home and will now be published and managed under one roof. We will be honouring existing contracts and will be in touch with licensees in due course.”
Briefly Noted | 2012 Bologna Book Fair Review: “Confidence and Opportunity” | Publishing Perspectives
March 27, 2012 – 8:39 am
One TOC, four days of actual book fair, roughly 70 miles walked, approximately 30 pounds of catalogs gathered, and hundreds of exchanged business cards later, my first Bologna Children’s Book Festival is finito. It was a memorable, exhausting, and exhilarating week. I left Bologna with sore and tired feet, a couple of pounds heavier from all the gelato I managed to consume at La Sorbetteria Castiglione, and a renewed sense of optimism on publishing in general and children’s publishing in particular. Stuck at our desks back at home, it’s easy to see the world through blinders and to forget what a big, diverse, creative and interesting world of children’s books there is out there.
via 2012 Bologna Book Fair Review: “Confidence and Opportunity” | Publishing Perspectives.
Book Launch: Crossfire: The Battle of The Four Courts, 1916
March 26, 2012 – 2:24 pm
New Island will launch Crossfire: The Battle of The Four Courts, 1916 on Wednesday 28th March at 6pm in the Distillery Building 145-151 Church Street.
The book is the first of a new Series entitle 1916 In Focus and is written by Paul O’Brien.
Blurb:
The exciting military history of one of the toughest fights of the 1916 Rising.
The 1916 Rising was about much, much more than the GPO. Around the city many volunteers and British soldiers were killed and wounded, fighting in vicious urban warfare. One of the many forgotten struggles centred on North King Street and the Four Courts and, in this brilliant new book, Paul O’Brien revisits that conflict.
Delving deep into the archives and the testimony of those involved, Crossfire brings to life a desperate struggle between mismatched forces, one that forced rebels to learn new ways of fighting on the cuff.
This gripping military history book is in turn exciting and tragic and does more than many books to expose the often forgotten stories of the 1916 Rising.
Charts: Top Ten Ebooks In Ireland March 16th 2012
March 16, 2012 – 9:17 am
We’ve gone with a visual line up from Apple iBooks* this week, to vary it. I find the difference between the two stores fascinating. I expect that Easons is outselling iBooks and hence the rather eclectic mix in iBooks, but even so the fact that is only 30% cross-over seems odd. It indicates totally difference audiences.
One rather interesting snippet, aside from the fact that Y Books has scored a number one in iBooks with their edition of Dermot O’Connor’s Healing code, is that Neil Jordan’s Mistaken seems to be performing well in ebook format for Easons.
As with last week, these top ten lists carry huge caveats. First that they represent a shifting top ten recorded by IPN at a given time and do not reflect ebook sales over a longer period. Second that they do not indicate volume or value of sales. Thirdly and finally that although the do indicate the top ten at the time of recording, they are subject to change due to sales at any given time.
And, as was pointed out in the comments:
Not one of these ebook sales can be read on a Kindle. Plus, if between 80-90% of ebook sales are through Amazon for the Kindle, does this really tell us anything beyond the limited sales two marginal ebook retailers?
You’ll find no disagreement here with that, but we have to start somewhere!
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*Correct as at 10pm 15/03/2012
Irish Top Ten, Week Ending 10/03/2012 | Another Good Week For Cathy Kelly
March 16, 2012 – 8:06 am
With the World Book Day titles still pulling in sales and skewing the top ten, there are nonetheless some interesting examples of strong sales for more regular titles.
Cathy Kelly’s The House On Willow Street, which has again been supported by radio ads over the last week, saw a cool 1,637 units through the tills and the three titles of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games Trilogy sold well clearing close to 3,600 units between them, driven, no doubt, by the upcoming movie release of the first film in the trilogy.
Not to be ignored is Maureen Gaffney’s Flourishing which remains in the top twenty and last week saw just shy of 1,000 copies sold.
World Book Day Titles Drive Top Ten
March 9, 2012 – 12:47 pm
Huge numbers of World Book Day titles sold through retailers last week driving enormous volume if not a lot of revenue through the doors. Irish publisher, The O’Brien Press squeaked into the top ten with their now annual World Book Day dual language flip book beating out Ruth Field’s Run Fat Bitch Run by 50 units!
Only Lorna Byrne managed to break through the sea of slim volumes to break into the top ten with an impressive 1,613 copies selling through. The rest of the top twenty titles featured a fair amount of YA titles too with three of Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy books featuring.
Maureen Gaffney continued a strong sale on the back of ongoing radio and other media appearances and Cathy Kelly’s The House On Willow Street, supported this week by radio advertising performed well too.
Irish Book Market Continues To Crash
March 8, 2012 – 12:33 pm
Nielsen Bookscan figures for the first eight weeks of the year show continued declines in Irish book sales.
According to the research company’s latest figures for the eight weeks of 2012 to the end of February, the value of sales in the Irish market hit has declined by 17.2% to €14.7 million while the volume has dropped 15.9% to 1.4m in comparison to the equivalent period of 2011.
Non-fiction has had the hardest fall with Non-Fiction sees a decline of 18.4% to €7.8m while fiction has year-to-date sales of €3.9m, a decline of 15.1%. Children’s books are not immune either and sales for that category are down 17.5% to €2.9m.
The Flame and The Candle Book Launch
March 7, 2012 – 5:11 pm
An Taoiseach Enda Kenny TD will launch The Flame and The Candle – War in Mayo 1919–1924 by Dominic Price in Mayo County Library, Castlebar, Co Mayo, on Friday 9 March 2012 at 8.00 p.m.
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