Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes Another busy fortnight for Irish Publishing News. We crossed the 100 article point mid-week. Authors NEWSFLASH: Poetry Ireland to Livecast Heaney Reading TODAY Comment Guest Column: Liberties Press & New Contracts Guest Column: Finding Opportunity In Change General O’Brien’s The Guinness Story Wins Cook Book Award Links Daily...
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Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes Amazon and Macmillan have reached an agreement over ebook pricing. The buy buttons which Amazon had removed as part of a dispute concerning new pricing arrangements have been re-instituted for all Macmillan titles. The dispute arose when Macmillan CEO John Sargeant informed Amazon late January that he was...
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Reading time: < 1 minute Although he was the strong running favourite, Colm Toibin's Brooklyn has missed out on winning the 2009 Costa book of the Year. Poet Christopher Reid was the winner, his victory was announced at a dinner on Tuesday 26th February. His book, A Scattering, was described as highly praised by...
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Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes A comment in response to my column in The Bookseller today caught my eye: There is another strand to the issues facing Irish publishing, though, in that aside from fiction, Ireland, and I am troubled by saying this but believe it is true, behaves provinicially. There is a...
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