Booksales Down In Ireland
Nieslen has released figures on the Irish Consumer market for the year to date showing that book sales have fallen quite markedly since last year. According to the book information group the Irish Consumer Market (ICM) has seen year-to-date sales of €25.5m down a huge…
Creative Writing Workshops At Mountains To Sea Festival
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown’s Mountains to Sea book festival is to offer creative writing workshops for the first time as part of this seasons program from Monday 5 through to Friday 9 September. The workshops will be tutored by established writers including…
Irish Top Ten Week Ending 09/04/2011
After a bumper week of sales for mother’s day, it was inevitable that the top ten would see some fall back, and it did. Sales fell by just under half for the top ten titles, dramatic but not as scary…
Roderick Hunt Most Borrowed Author In Irish Libraries in 2010
Roderick Hunt, author of over 300 titles in the Oxford Reading Tree series, is Ireland’s most borrowed author for the second successive year with over 115,000 library loans. Daisy Meadows, creator of the Rainbow Magic series, was the second most-borrowed…
Enter The Mammoth: Guest Column
Karl Whitney, co-founder of newly formed The Mammoth, writes about the site and the logic behind it. Instead of the internet reducing your attention span, we think it provides an opportunity to publish lengthier, more in-depth work – in short,…