World Book Day Titles Drive Top Ten
Huge numbers of World Book Day titles sold through retailers last week driving enormous volume if not a lot of revenue through the doors. Irish publisher, The O’Brien Press squeaked into the top ten with their now annual World Book Day dual…
Briefly Noted | The bargain bookseller | Get London Reading
The numbers involved are colossal, driven by those low prices: last year The Book People sold 250,000 cook books by Jamie Oliver, 130,000 by baking model Lorraine Pascale, plus 120,000 books of poetry. In a world where a new novel…
Briefly Noted | James Joyce children’s story The Cats of Copenhagen gets first publication | Books | guardian.co.uk
Like its predecessor, The Cats of Copenhagen was written in a letter to Joyce’s grandchild, Stephen James Joyce, while the author was in Denmark and the four-year-old Stephen was in France. The new tale is “exquisite, surprising, and with a…
Irish Consumer Market Continues to Fall
The Irish Consumer Market (ICM) continues to suffer sharp year-on-year declines, with the latest figures from Nielsen Bookscan showing the market down by 8.9% to €88.6m in value, and down by 9.7% to 8.5m units. The Fiction sector is down…
Amazon: consumers buying more Kindle eBooks than print books | Technology | Los Angeles Times
“Customers are now choosing Kindle books more often than print books,” said Jeff Bezos, Amazons founder and chief executive, in a statement. “We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never imagined it would happen this quickly…
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