A gripping story but not the last chapter for traditional book shops
This piece in the Indo is a very good overview of where we are right now.
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Kildare Readers’ Festival
Sounds like there will be good goings on here!
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Short story by numbers?
Interesting
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Bord Gais Community Energy Fund and Public Libraries
This is also an interesting one!
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Book launch: The Summer Campaign in Kerry
Excellent author and, having commissioned most of it, I think it is a great series.
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Sean Moylan:Rebel Leader to be launched by An Taoiseach Brian Cowen
Hoping to attend the Dublin one myself!
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Lord Sugar warns book trade not to fight digital revolution
And we should always listen to suralan
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I Believe In Harvey
Chicago is such a great city, books based there are almost always worth a read!
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Poets you should check out – Roger McGough
I like this, I really rather do!
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Bring your Book Club to Bookworms
Clever campaign!
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Salt Publishing Launch Salt Kids Imprint
I wonder on this, I really do. Wasn’t it just a short time ago that Salt was on its last legs?
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Roe Valley Tales Re-told.
Lovely cover this!
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Write Up My Street Competition 2010
Nice competition for young aspiring writers here!
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Slides from Eoin Purcell’s Talk on Publishing Day
From the Irish Writers Centre Blog
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Hachette Ireland Launches Website
Some personal commenet on the Hachette website
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Printmaking at the National Library of Ireland
Cool!
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Perusing the Papers
David parses the weekend papers
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Arts Council: Touring & Dissemination of Work Scheme
Emerging writer covers thenew grant for touring
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Lee Child Competition
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Guest blog: day 2
More from the junior interns
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Seizing the Means of Production – Part 2
This is a really a fine series by Oisin, you should read it, part two!
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Blogger Mike Cane Launches iPad Blog
Mike Cane is worth a read, this sounds like fun!
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Conor Kostick Workshop
David shares a note on an upcoming Conor Kostick writing workshop
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Is ‘crowdfunding’ really the way ahead for author advances?
Interesting article about crowd-sourcing an advance!
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Authonomy Chalks Up Fourth And Fifth Book Acquisitions
A good note on this story
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Ever wondered about chapbooks
Nice videos shared by emerging!
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“No, I’m Spartacus.”
More from Declan Burke on his writer’s co-op idea!
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Seizing The Means of Production – Part 1
This is nicely done, part one of a series about publishing, reading and the future!
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Kindle users revolt against delays to ebook editions
It frankly amazes me that readers are doing this, I don’t diss a book that won’t be in paperback for a few months?
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Harlan Coben tops the UK bestseller charts
Harlan Coben made the top ten in Ireland
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Three Sites Worth Reading
Sharing some sites worth reading on my personal blog!
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Carlow Grants
Emerging share the details of Carlow writing grants
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The Tablet Commeth?
Get ready for disappointment
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Ennis Book Club Festival 2010
An interesting festival this! All the readers you want in the Ireland getting together!
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Fingal Playwrights
Do you write plays? Draiocht & Fishamble Theatre want you
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Financial House of Cards Reported Ready to Fall
This has been the story of the week I think!
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WWII POW tweets his prison diary
This is nice
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Vacancy – Manager, Northern Ireland Publications Resource
Nice job for someone Belfast based with Library & Information Studies experience
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Happy New Year…
Stinging Fly is accepting submissions until the end of March
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Dublin City Libraries
David shares links to Dublin City Libraries twitter feeds and children’s websites!
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Kildare Young WritersEmerging shares the details for Kildare Young Writers Competition
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Rewriting Tips
Laura shares her rewriting tips!
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Going Solo
Interesting news this!
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New Irish Language Paper Seeks Writers
Can you write as gaeilge? Follow the link for more!
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Nook Wins Best Gadget of the Year at Crunchies Awards
And yet no one in the Irish ebook survey had heard of it yet, and why would they, B&N and Nook have no international stores to attract us in with unlike amazon.
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Business communications Bible – A what now?
You should pay attention to this publishers, just in case you don’t already!
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High street book sales frozen at worst level in nine years
Figures for Ireland cannot be much better!
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Google enables ‘upload any file type’ to Docs
While we keep being distracted by Google’s book efforts, we tend to miss their other moves, which frankly when you consider the potential of moves like this, may ultimately be more important.
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It will be a tough year for retailers with high rents and price deflation
I missed this last week somehow but spotted it today thanks to the power of Google Alerts!
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Marks & Spencer releases own netbook
The end is nigh my friends, the end is nigh!
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Judging history books by their covers
Nice piece here on Pue’s Occurrences, fast becoming a must read!
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Children’s Choice Book Awards
David Reminds us to go vote!
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Look over there!
Thank you David!
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Emma the Penguin details up – and book launch details
Sarah Webb’s Emma the Penguin is launching soon!
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Hanna Greally Competition
Emerging writer has a question that ought to be answered!
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Emmy Winner Seeks Funding
Got some spare cash?
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Free Blio e-reading software out in February
This gets closer to where I see the future of books with one problem, why reinvent the internet? Still very much worth checking out.
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German Minister Threatens Legal Action to Fight Google
I met Siobhan O’Leary at TOC Frankfurt. She’s been writing some interesting pieces out of Germany about Google and it’s plans, well worth keeping an eye on!
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Enough is Enough!
Raven Books on reading books to welcome in 2010, a fine notion!
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