• IMPAC Win Boosts Gerbrand Bakker’s Sales

    Updated: 2010-06-30 12:03:49
    The IMPAC Dublin Literary Award win for Gerbrand Bakker‘s The Twin has catapulted the book into the Irish top ten this week with just under 1,500 units sold in the week ending 26th June 2010. According to Nielsen Bookscan, the organisation that collectes data on book sales in Ireland, sales for the year to date now stand at 3,142 units and have generated €27.276.72 at the till, giving an average selling price of €8.68. The news provides evidence of IMPAC’s success in promoting the sale of books and comes on the back of several significant media appearances by Bakker following the win. Bakker beat off competition from seven other writers, including Irish author Joseph O’Neill, to win the award.

  • Irish Top Ten Week Ending 26/06/2010

    Updated: 2010-06-30 08:41:06
    Log In Irish Publishing News News Features About Irish Publishing News Books Authors Author Events Publishing Published This Month Rights Daily Links Comment Features Announcement The Irish Publishing News Search Engine Advertising IPN Mailing List About IPN Contact Details Featured Posts Dublin’s Bargain Book Bonanza By Daniel Bolger The book remainder business is booming and bargain bookshops are popping up all over Dublin city centre . You can’t have missed them and that’s . Read more Literature In The Face Of Recession : A Profile Of The Dalkey Book Festival By Robert Maguire As one of Ireland’s foremost economists , it is no surprise David McWilliams is conjuring up ways of tackling the recession . What may be surprising , Read more Guest Column : Laureate na nÓg Siobhán Parkinson on

  • Daily Links 29/06/2010

    Updated: 2010-06-29 07:58:49
    Log In Irish Publishing News News Features About Irish Publishing News Books Authors Author Events Publishing Published This Month Rights Daily Links Comment Features Announcement The Irish Publishing News Search Engine Advertising IPN Mailing List About IPN Contact Details Featured Posts Dublin’s Bargain Book Bonanza By Daniel Bolger The book remainder business is booming and bargain bookshops are popping up all over Dublin city centre . You can’t have missed them and that’s . Read more Literature In The Face Of Recession : A Profile Of The Dalkey Book Festival By Robert Maguire As one of Ireland’s foremost economists , it is no surprise David McWilliams is conjuring up ways of tackling the recession . What may be surprising , Read more Guest Column : Laureate na nÓg Siobhán Parkinson on

  • Elsevier Ireland Ltd Records €24.6m Profit In 2009

    Updated: 2010-06-29 07:28:43
    The Irish Independent reports that Elsevier Ireland Ltd increased its pre-tax profits by 3pc in 2009 to €24.6m. The company, which is based in Shannon, is a subsidiary of Elsevier, the Dutch based arm of global Reed Elsevier group. It employs some 100 people and began operations in Shannon in 1976. Although it booked considerable profits it does most of its trade outside of the country exporting scientific, technical and health journals to professional audiences.

  • Published This Month July Deadline

    Updated: 2010-06-29 01:42:40
    The July edition of Published This Month goes live on Wednesday 7th July. The deadline for inclusion for July 2010 is the 1pm Friday 2nd July. There is an excel sheet available to make submission easier on the contact page of IrishPublishingNews.com.

  • Sarah Webb On Queen Of Teen Shortlist

    Updated: 2010-06-25 16:49:44
    Irish author Sarah Webb has made the Queen of Teen competition short list alongside Helen Bailey, Cathy Cassidy, Cathy Hopkins, Chris Higgins, Sarra Manning, Samantha Mackintosh, Joanna Nadin, Louise Rennison and Jacqueline Wilson. The public can now vote for their preferred winner on the competition website and the award will be announced in Spetember 2010.

  • Daily Links 23/06/2010

    Updated: 2010-06-23 18:01:30
    Log In Irish Publishing News News Features About Irish Publishing News Books Authors Author Events Publishing Published This Month Rights Daily Links Comment Features Announcement The Irish Publishing News Search Engine Advertising IPN Mailing List About IPN Contact Details Featured Posts Dublin’s Bargain Book Bonanza By Daniel Bolger The book remainder business is booming and bargain bookshops are popping up all over Dublin city centre . You can’t have missed them and that’s . Read more Literature In The Face Of Recession : A Profile Of The Dalkey Book Festival By Robert Maguire As one of Ireland’s foremost economists , it is no surprise David McWilliams is conjuring up ways of tackling the recession . What may be surprising , Read more Guest Column : Laureate na nÓg Siobhán Parkinson on

  • Irish Top Ten Week Ending 19/06/2010

    Updated: 2010-06-23 09:00:24
    Log In Irish Publishing News News Features About Irish Publishing News Books Authors Author Events Publishing Published This Month Rights Daily Links Comment Features Announcement The Irish Publishing News Search Engine Advertising IPN Mailing List About IPN Contact Details Featured Posts Dublin’s Bargain Book Bonanza By Daniel Bolger The book remainder business is booming and bargain bookshops are popping up all over Dublin city centre . You can’t have missed them and that’s . Read more Literature In The Face Of Recession : A Profile Of The Dalkey Book Festival By Robert Maguire As one of Ireland’s foremost economists , it is no surprise David McWilliams is conjuring up ways of tackling the recession . What may be surprising , Read more Guest Column : Laureate na nÓg Siobhán Parkinson on

  • Apple’s iBooks Available In Ireland

    Updated: 2010-06-22 21:34:53
    Log In Irish Publishing News News Features About Irish Publishing News Books Authors Author Events Publishing Published This Month Rights Daily Links Comment Features Announcement The Irish Publishing News Search Engine Advertising IPN Mailing List About IPN Contact Details Featured Posts Dublin’s Bargain Book Bonanza By Daniel Bolger The book remainder business is booming and bargain bookshops are popping up all over Dublin city centre . You can’t have missed them and that’s . Read more Literature In The Face Of Recession : A Profile Of The Dalkey Book Festival By Robert Maguire As one of Ireland’s foremost economists , it is no surprise David McWilliams is conjuring up ways of tackling the recession . What may be surprising , Read more Guest Column : Laureate na nÓg Siobhán Parkinson on

  • Copyright Issues Ripe for Reform

    Updated: 2010-06-17 07:30:30
    O'Reilly Media Home About Directory Blog Community Archives Webcasts Resources Reading News Copyright Issues Ripe for Reform Alexander Macgillivray June 17, 2010 Permalink Comments 4 Listen Photo : Joichi Ito Now that I've been mostly away from the copyright battles for a while and am unlikely to have much to do with them in the foreseeable future , I thought it would be good to get down some thoughts about issues I think are ripe for reform in that area and solicit feedback . These are not Google Book Settlement-related but are things that should be done regardless of how that works . out My standard disclaimer applies . I used to work at Google and worked on the settlement which is currently awaiting final approval but I do not work at Google now and my views are not Google's views nor

  • Sifting Through All These Books

    Updated: 2010-06-14 17:41:06
    O'Reilly Media Home About Directory Blog Community Archives Webcasts Resources Reading News Sifting Through All These Books Hugh McGuire June 14, 2010 Permalink Comments 6 Listen There Sure Are a Lot of Books The latest numbers from Bowker are extraordinary In 2002 there were 215,000 books published in the USA , and a further 32,693 print-on-demand title short-runs , self-published etc In 2008, traditional publishers put out 275,000 books but there was a huge surge in print-on-demand titles , and at 285,000, for the first time there were more non-traditionally published books than traditionally published . By 2009, the whole applecart was upside down : 288,000 books published traditionally , and 764,000 self-published and print-on-demand books . That doesn't include , as far as I can tell

  • Hot Off the Digital Press

    Updated: 2010-06-11 21:38:29
    A few months ago, you might remember that Dirxion began dabbling into newspaper industry. Well, today, we are making some great headway with our e-Edition solution. A few titles hot off the press this week: Chautauqua Star Courier News Weekly Nashville Pride Charlotte Post Our Time Press As with all of our solutions, Dirxion’s e-Edition continues to evolve as we learn

  • Ebook Reseller Wishlist/Scorecard

    Updated: 2010-06-07 14:00:00
    O'Reilly Media Home About Directory Blog Community Archives Webcasts Resources Reading News Ebook Reseller Wishlist Scorecard Andrew Savikas June 7, 2010 Permalink Comments 15 Listen I spend a lot of time talking with companies that want to resell O'Reilly ebooks . Some are large companies you've certainly heard of , others are small startups that haven't yet launched . But what's remarkably consistent is that few of them offer many of the options and features we at O'Reilly consider critical for . customers Because I'm sure these will come up again , I've prepared a handy table outlining what we look for in an ideal ebook reseller , and provided a simple scorecard showing how several current ebook resellers stack : up Table title here Reseller Carries O'Reilly ebooks Multiple ebook

  • FTC ideas could kill Google

    Updated: 2010-06-04 18:36:02
    As a percentage of all advertising revenue in the United States, newspapers have been steadily shrinking for the past 50 years. It was only recently that things tipped to the point where newspapers were losing money instead of turning a profit. An old hierarchy wants the newspaper industry to survive. Whether from personal business interests, nostalgia, [...]

  • Cool, Animated “More Info” Icons

    Updated: 2010-06-03 19:58:55
    In the publishing business, there is nothing more valuable than page real estate. Every page is deliberately designed to maximize space. But too much clutter and you can lose the reader. Too little, you lose your message. Plus, printing does not come cheap so the amount of pages you work into your publication is a

  • The iPad in Europe (real live units)

    Updated: 2010-06-03 12:37:50
    O'Reilly Media Home About Directory Blog Community Archives Webcasts Resources Reading News The iPad in Europe real live units Eoin Purcell June 3, 2010 Permalink Comments 1 Listen The iPad is here , or more accurately it's there and there there there there and there which is closer to here than there or there or there but still not quite HERE Even more confusingly and anomalously , it IS available on the island of Ireland , from the Apple Store in Belfast and some Apple fans from the Republic of Ireland have been heading over the border to buy . units UK , German and French book publishers have all provided content for the ipad and while there remain some grumbles about legality the agency model for bookselling now seems to have passed it's first challenge , actually existing . The

  • The power of promotional pricing

    Updated: 2010-06-03 06:00:00
    O'Reilly Media Home About Directory Blog Community Archives Webcasts Resources Reading News The power of promotional pricing Andrew Savikas June 3, 2010 Permalink Comments 5 Listen We've been running an ebook 9.99 deal of the day promotion for some time now , and customer response has been quite positive There's also some very interesting sales data coming out of these . promotions It's no surprise that promotional pricing increases sales the balancing act is in making sure that overall revenue increases offsetting the per-unit revenue decrease as well as making sure that other sales aren't cannibalized . If done right , promotional pricing is a powerful way to perform price discrimination in particular converting people who would not otherwise buy at the higher price into paying customers

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