Bord Gais Energy Offers €5,000 Prize Fund For Bookshop Of The Year Award
The Bord Gáis Energy Bookshop of the Year Award is back for 2012 and offers a €5,000 prize fund. The award, which was introduced as a new category in the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards in 2011, pays tribute to…
Briefly Noted | Hundreds of bookshops face closure – Telegraph
The BA has called for more free parking in town centres and a reduction in red tape to help struggling businesses. It also argued that charity shops present “unfair competition” to bookshops due to the valuable tax breaks they get….
CSO Data Suggests Monthly Increase In Books Sales
The books, newspapers and stationery segment of retail sales saw an increase in January 2011 of 4.9% in value terms and 2.7% in volume terms when compared with December 2010. However, the newly released Central Statistics Office data on retail…
Briefly Noted | Hughes & Hughes To Reopen Cafe In Dundrum Store
The Dundrum store previously housed a Starbucks coffee shop (though that feel victim to Starbucks reorganization of it’s Irish operation), it will be interesting to see how well this new operation fare: Cafe Libro, Hughes& Hughes’ brand new coffee shop,…
Hughes & Hughes Dublin Airport Stores Remain Open
Enquiries with the DAA this morning reveal that the Hughes & Hughes stores remain open and that customers can buy books and magazines there today. For more on this story, read our full story from yesterday or last night’s round-up.
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