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Eason Launches Eason Offers

June 10, 2011 – 10:48 am

Eason, the Irish books and stationary chain, has launched a group offers site, EasonOffer.com.

The site offers discounted books to readers, delivered free anywhere in Ireland. Eason has teamed up with Dublin based GruUpy.com to deliver the site.

Today’s offer is for Ryan Tubridy’s JFK in Ireland and offers a remarkable 64% discount on the recommended retail price.

The site previously offered a signed Melissa Hill book and a box set of the Millennium Trilogy.

The site comes after the company reached 7,000 fans on their Eason Book Club page on Facebook.

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Eason Launches A New eBook store

March 23, 2010 – 6:50 pm

Eason Launches eBook Store

Eason & Son has launched a new eBook store on its website Eason.ie. The company has created a new top level category for eBooks beside Books, Stationary and Bestsellers.

The store, which went live last week, was announced publicly on the Eason Book Club Facebook page. The store offers a range of titles from new releases to classics, a Best of Irish Section and includes some of the Top 50 Books Of The Noughties as voted by Eason Book Club Members.

Both Penguin Ireland and Transworld Ireland have titles in the store.

Prices range from around €8 up to nearly €30 and individual books appear to be priced close to the same price as their physical world counterparts. For instance Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father is priced at €11.10 in ebook and on special value at €9.99 in paperback.

Eason has been selling Sony eReader devices for some time and these are also available for sale in the new ebook section.

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The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas Voted No 1 book of the decade

March 15, 2010 – 6:10 pm

The Boy In The Striped PyjamasEason book club members have voted John Boyne’s The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas the book of the decade. The competition was run as part of Eason’s online book club which was officially launched this week.

The book club is based on Facebook where readers can engage in discussions about titles, view pictures and author commentary and become a fan of the book club page, it has around 1500 fans. Eason has created a special 3 for 2 offer for the 50 titles.

The Irish Times recently launched an Online Book Club choosing Colm Toibin’s Brooklyn, which placed at number 20 in the Eason book club books of the decade, as their first book.

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