The IT Tackles Ebook Pricing >> Why should the price of ebooks . . . be on the floor?
Actually a nice piece on ebook pricing in The Irish Times. Interestingly there’s a fairly broad set of views on pricing from the Irish industry including a somewhat reluctant sounding Stuart Neville: John Mooney is in broad agreement. “The traditional…
Briefly Noted | Building an Irish-indie Christmas – The Irish Times – Mon, Nov 21, 2011
A CAMPAIGN asking consumers to spend more in (possibly more expensive) independent retailers this festive season, as the Government prepares to give us all yet another hair shirt for Christmas,may seem rather quixotic so it is perhaps fitting it has…
Mercier Rebrands McCaughren's Children's Classics
Mercier Press, the Cork based independent publisher, has reissued three of Tom McCaughren’s classic children’s books; The Legend of the Golden Key, The Legend of the Phantom Highwayman, The Legend of the Corrib King. The books explore a series of…
McCann Wins IMPAC
Colum McCann has won the 2011 IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize for his novel Let The Great World Spin. The award, the richest in the book world, carries a €100,000 prize for the winner. McCann was born in Ireland but has…
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,…