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Irish Top Ten Week Ending 19/03/2011

March 23, 2011 – 11:49 am

After two weeks of non-fiction being shifted out of the top ten, this week sees the return of some well-known names and the arrival of a new one.

Powered by Eason’s selling it for just 9.99, Rachel Allen’s Entertaining At Home enters the top ten. Compared with the remarkable sales for her 2009 title, HomeCooking, which proved to be one of the top titles of that year, Entertaining At Home has been somewhat disappointing in Ireland. The fact that the selling price is what is driving sales is not very encouraging for either the author OR the publisher, especially given how successful Jamie Oliver’s Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals was and the very low-level of discounting that title saw.

Even with the reappearance of non-fiction titles, the strength of fiction is impressive again this week with Patricia Scanlan’s Love and Marriage leading the field with a huge 2,058 sales and Marian Keyes’The Brightest Star In The Sky, Emma Donoghue’s Room and David Nicholls’ One Day all making the top ten with solid figures. What’s more, after just missing out on the top ten last week Ghost Light, Joseph O’Connor’s novel newly released in paperback makes a return to the top ten.

The strength of the fiction and the return of several non-fiction titles also changes the author make up of the top ten so that Irish authors are now dominant a strange week when Irish authors do so well but not a single one of them published by an Irish owned publisher.

Only one of the World Book Day titles. Dr Suess On The Loose, is still in the top ten.

1: Love and Marriage, Patricia Scanlan, 2,058
2: The Brightest Star in the Sky, Marian Keyes, 1,020
3: Entertaining at Home, Rachel Allen, 905
4: Room, Emma Donoghue, 791
5: One Day, David Nicholls, 746
6: Dr Seuss on the Loose, Dr. Suess, 703
7: The Feel Good Factor, Patrick Holford, 686
8: Ghost Light, Joseph O’Connor, 662
9: The Truth About You, Melissa Hill, 630
10: My Boy:The Phil Lynott Story, Phil Lynott, 619

Top Ten Dynamics
IPN is running a top ten dynamics section looking at the top ten with some data drawn out. Nothing too dramatic, but useful nonetheless.

Volume: 8,820 Units

Increase since last week: -1,607

% increase since last week: -15.41%

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Fiction: 7 titles, 6,610 units or 74.94%, RRP £7.56

Non-Fiction: 3 titles, 2,210 units or 25.06%, RRP £17.66

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Authors: 1o

Irish Authors: 7, 70%

Irish Published Books: 0, 0%

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Average RRP: £10.59

Increase in RRP since last week: £7.49

% Increase in RRP since last week: 241.68%

Data Supplied by Nielsen BookScan taken from the Irish Consumer Market week ending 19th March 2011

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Eason To Close Dun Laoghaire Store

March 7, 2011 – 11:00 am

Eason is to close its Georges Street, Dun Laoghaire store and has placed the property for let through HWBC.

The company currently operates two stores in Dun Laoaghire, the store on George’s street and one on Marine Road which the company opened in June 2010.

The Marine Road store had previously been one of Hughes & Hughes’ flagship stores but, after that company went into liquidation in April 2010, Easons acquired a lease on the property and opened their store in the premises.

The 1,200 square metre store on Marine Road is nearly three times larger and considerably more modern than the Georgre’s Street premises which has 407 square metres over three floors.

The Marine Road store also has a coffee shop run by Costa Coffee.

Note: Edited to correct errors regarding status of the George’s Street store which remains in operation for now.

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Briefly Noted

Briefly Noted | British Bookshops enters administration | theBookseller.com

January 13, 2011 – 5:24 pm

The business recorded a turnover of £25.7m in the year to end-January 2010, but made a loss of £6m. However, m.d. John Simpson, who led a management buy-out of the business from private equity firm Endless at the beginning of last year, told The Bookseller in November that he hoped to return the company to profit in its next financial year. Simpson declined to comment when contacted this week by The Bookseller. Its website stopped taking orders last weekend.

A well-placed source said the bookshop owes around £10m to publisher creditors. Endless is also a creditor as 50% of the sale price to the buy-out team was in deferred payments. The source said: “British Bookshops needed inventory for these stores and the capital expenditure stretched their outflows. I think they opened a hell of a lot of stores and stretched themselves. If I’d have owned it, then I’d not have expanded.”

via British Bookshops enters administration | theBookseller.com.

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Easons Launches New Year New You Promotion

January 4, 2011 – 10:45 am

Starting tomorrow, Wednesday 5 January and running until Sunday 13 February 2011 Easons will be offering 20% off a range of more than 90 self-help titles.

Maria Dickenson, Head of Purchasing at Eason said: ‘The New Year is a wonderful time for renewal and Irish consumers tend to look for focus and motivation from the wide array of self-help titles on offer. Given the current economic climate, I’d imagine that lots of people will be looking at ways to help themselves – be it emotionally, financially, or spiritually – during these challenging times. Books are a great value way to gain fresh perspectives and motivation and every year we see a range of new titles offering guidance and the continuing popularity of a number of classic titles.’

Titles in the promotion include, What Women Know by Michelle Jackson and Juliet Breslin, Angels In My Hair by Lorna Byrne, The Secret by Rhonda Byrne, Anam Cara by John O’Donoghue and The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle. Another firm favourite at this time of year, Colm Rapple’s Family Finance 2011 is also in the promotion

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Easons Top Ten Ebooks ~ November 2010

December 16, 2010 – 5:51 pm

Good to see Emma Donoghue doing well in ebooks as well as in print. I’m intrigued to see Amanda Brunker sitting so high in the ebook charts and that she has two books there. Perhaps the most interesting feature of the top ten this month however is that Irish authors dominate the list, five out of ten titles being writing by Irishmen or women.

1) Room by Emma Donoghue

2) 61 Hours by Lee Child

3) The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

4) Champagne Babes by Amanda Brunker

5) A Football Man by John Giles

6) Come What May by Donal Og Cusack

7) The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

8) Body Double by Tess Gerritsen

9) Champagne Secrets by Amanda Brunker

10) The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas

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Easons Agrees Agency Pricing Contract For EBooks With Two Publishers

December 3, 2010 – 3:33 pm

Stephen Boylan, Books Purchasing Manager at Easons with responsibility for ebooks has confirmed that Easons has signed Agency contracts with Hachette and HarperCollins.

Both publishers have also changed from wholesale to agency terms for ebooks in the UK, as have Canongate, Penguin and Simon & Schuster.

The new agreements mean that Easons, ‘currently have a mix of agency and wholesale pricing on their ebook site,’ according to Boylan.

Agency contracts change the basis of partnerships between retailers and publishers from a wholesale one to an agent based one for ebook sales. Instead of retailers getting a set discount off the list price of titles from the publisher and selling titles at whatever price they choose, the publisher instead sets the price and pays a commission to the retailer based on that selling price once an ebook sells.

Other publishers are likely to follow suit over the coming months. Tony Hetherington, Digital Development Manager at Gill & Macmillan, the largest Irish publisher, said that Gill & Macmillan will be introducing ebooks in the first quarter of 2011 and ‘will look to implement Agency pricing wherever we do business.’

Gareth Cuddy of ePubDirect, an Irish ebook technology firm, said that, ‘Hopefully the eBook selection in Ireland will increase for the many people suffering from a lack of available titles. We haven’t gone down the agency route for our own reasons, but we’re just glad to see the profile of eBooks raised in this country.’

Boylan said that Easons is, ‘keeping an open mind in relation to its [Agency pricing‘s] potential impact. It’s still early days, but we’re in close contact with the publishers and will keep discussions open with them about any future developments.’

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TV Ads For Blackwater Press

December 3, 2010 – 9:32 am

Blackwater Press, the Folens ‘ trade publishing imprint which publishes books mostly into the Christmas market, has begun broadcasting a television campaign for this years list.

The company has five titles out for 2010 including Lorraine Keane’s Working the Red Carpet Lisa Fitzpatrick’s Lisa Fitzpatrick’s Guide to Style, and Paolo Tullio’s, Paolo Tullio Cooks Italian.

Blackwater is traditionally associated with memoirs by big GAA names and this year is no difference with Down footballing legend James McCartan Senior’s The King Of Down Football included in the campaign.

The company has also secured marketing placement for some of its titles in the Easons’ Christmas catalogue.

TV campaigns by Irish publishers are very rare with only bookseller Easons running a sustained TV campaign this Christmas season.

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Book Depository Launches Ireland Only Offer

November 22, 2010 – 2:34 pm

Online book retailer, The Book Depository has launched a special, Irish only, discount for book buyers.

The site, which sells books at a hefty discount and with free shipping, is offering an extra 10% discount to Ireland-based buyers if they use a specific code when purchasing.

Book buyers will have to buy books before 17th December and access the site using this link to avail of the special offer. The offer is also exclusive of VAT.

The Book Depository’s move comes as Irish independent book seller, Kenny’s boosted their online offering in an effort to compete with Amazon.

It also comes hot on the heels of Easons’ Christmas campaign which features a large 3 for 2 discount and value prices on individual titles.

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Books & Authors

Eason Top Ten Ebooks ~ October 2010

November 1, 2010 – 12:35 pm

One of the most interesting things about ebooks is that they seem to attract in their initial stages, string demand from fiction readers. Perhaps it is that their current formats are best suited to long form narrative. Whatever the reason, the top ten from Easons shows exactly this impact with only two non-fiction title making the top ten!

1 Homecoming by Cathy Kelly
2 Room by Emma Donoghue
3 Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
4 Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
5 Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich
6 I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
7 The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
8 The Chosen One by Sam Bourne
9 The Help by Kathyrn Stockett
10 Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese

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Top Ten Ebooks

Easons Top Ten eBooks ~ September 2010

October 1, 2010 – 11:57 am

The Easons eBook chart for September is below. It has two interesting features, the first that Tony Blair is the only non-fiction title to make the list, echoing the current situation in print books and secondly that Christos Tsiolkas makes an appearance with The Slap.

1) Homecoming by Cathy Kelly
2) Room by Emma Donoghue
3) A Journey by Tony Blair
4) Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
5) Pieces of My Heart by Sinead Moriarty
6) The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
7) An Absolute Scandal by Penny Vincenzi
8) Angels in My Hair by Lorna Byrne
9) The Choice by Susan Lewis
10) The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas

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