Irish Top Ten Week Ending 07/07/2012
The massive and ongoing sales success of the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy is pretty remarkable (over 20,000 copies this week), made more so by two factors, the first that supply has clearly been a major issue, several bookshops tweeted or Facebooked pictures…
April Retail Figures Show Yearly Declines
Data released by the Central Statistics office revealed that the level of sales in April 2011 in the Books, Newspapers and Stationery sector was down over 14% in value and volume terms on the levels for April 2010. Despite the…
Retail Sales Fall Back In February
Retail sales were down 0.7% in terms of value and 0.3% in terms of volume in February 2011 when compared to February 2010 according to CSO data released yesterday. The Books, Newspapers and Stationery sub-segment was significantly worse than the…
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…
Opinion | The Differential Rates Of Change Problem
There’s an issue I’ve been exploring on this blog and elsewhere for some time. It’s about digital change and what it does to large and small markets, especially when the rates of change in these markets differ. I’ve called it…