Reading time: 6 – 9 minutes This week Amazon announced that, for the first time ever on Amazon.com, ebooks had outsold hardbacks, proving that whilst some of us are reluctant to part with our beloved bound volumes, there is an ever increasing number embracing the concept of electronic reading. And with Apple‘s much heralded...
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Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes Our guest columnist this week is Bob Johnston a former Hughes & Hughes buyer who left the company back in 2009 to set up his own independent bookstore. The Gutter Bookshop website can be found here and their Facebook page and Twitter stream are very active. Six months...
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Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes It has been an interesting year so far. The top ten slots are looking by my estimation (and I’d need to do some research to prove it) to be almost the preserve of genre fiction writers. With Larsson of course leading the pack with three still in the...
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Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes Hay House, the global publishers of lifestyle and Self-help titles, has bought the world rights (excluding Ireland) to Kevin Skelton and Yvonne Kinsella’s Sent By An Angel which was published by Poolbeg in Ireland. The book will be published in the UK in Spring 2011 and US and...
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