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Briefly Noted | Digital publishing | FT Tech Hub | FTtechhub – Industry analysis – FT.com

August 8, 2011 – 8:12 am

It looks like back-to-school shopping has hit venture capitalists and Facebook this week. The social networking company announced an intriguing acquisition of digital book publisher Push Pop Press. Meanwhile, Inkling, which has a publishing platform for putting textbooks on the iPad, raised a new round of funding.

Facebook’s acquisition prompted a wave of speculation in the blogosphere. Push Pop stated on its blog that Facebook “isn’t planning to start publishing digital books.” However, both the New York Times’ Bits blog and PCWorld speculated that there could be an opportunity.

via Story of the week: Digital publishing | FT Tech Hub | FTtechhub – Industry analysis – FT.com.

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Briefly Noted | Why Did Facebook Buy an e-Book Publisher? – NYTimes.com

August 3, 2011 – 7:50 am

The Push Pop Press team are highly accomplished engineers. The company was co-founded by Mike Matas, a former Apple employee who worked on user interface projects for Apple software, and Kimon Tsinteris, also a former Apple employee  and software engineer. Facebook said in an e-mail message that some of the companies engineers would be joining Facebook.

Facebook may also need help with its iPhone and iPad strategy, an area Push Pop Press has clearly demonstrated it understands better than most. The first Push Pop Press book, called Our Choice, is a fully interactive book about the climate crisis that was written by the former vice president Al Gore and designed for the iPhone and iPad.

via Why Did Facebook Buy an e-Book Publisher? – NYTimes.com.

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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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Dubray Launches DK Travel promotion

April 19, 2011 – 10:37 am

Dubray Books has launched a new promotion featuring exclusively DK Eyewitness Travel titles.

The promotion offers purchasers of DK Eyewitness Travel titles 30% off for a limited time period.

The campaign is highlighted on Facebook, on the bookseller’s website and in store.

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Easons Online Book Club Prompts Instore Section

January 31, 2011 – 3:46 pm

The hugely popular Eason’s Book Club, which is based online, primarily in Facebook, has prompted the bookseller to create a special in store offering, the Bookclub Choice.

According to the company, the ‘Bookclub Choice is an exciting new initiative’ which features books that ‘have been carefully chosen to appeal to a wide range of readers, and especially bookclubs and their members.’

The selection of titles will change each month with a balance between classics and new titles. Stephen Boylan, Books Purchasing Manager Eason said that, ‘more titles will be added to the promotion as they are published.’

The online book club now has some 6,000 Facebook fans rivaling the larger Bord Gais Energy Book Club which has a TV tie in with TV3.

The full list of the titles included in the first selection is below:

The Postmistress ~ Sarah Blake
Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake ~ Aimee Bender
Saints & Sinners ~ Edna O’Brien
When God Was a Rabbit ~ Sarah Winman
Room ~ Emma Donoghue
The Long Song ~ Andrea Levy
The Help ~ Kathryn Stockett
Started Early Took My Dog ~ Kate Atkinson
Freedom ~ Jonathan Franzen
The Privileges ~ Jonathan Dee
Let the Great World Spin ~ Colum McCann
One Day ~ David Nicholls

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O’Brien Press Launches Single Title Facebook Page

January 10, 2011 – 3:21 pm

O’Brien Press has launched a Facebook page for one of their upcoming titles, The Real Rebecca, by Anna Carey.

The page is the first title specific Facebook profile by an Irish publisher and features information on the author, the title and includes an extensive extract from the book.

The book is targeted at the 10+ age group and will be released on 1 February 2011.

The move comes soon after Gill & Macmillan launched a new mini-site for its title, The Courage To Be Happy (which IPN reported on earlier) and after O’Brien launched a mini-site for the Moorehawk Trilogy.

Publishers Description:
Rebecca’s mum Rosie writes books for adults, but when she writes a novel for teens, everyone thinks it’s based on her daughter! Rebecca is horrified and vows to prove that she is different. But how will she show the world the real Rebecca?

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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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