Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes Dublin has joined Edinburgh, Iowa City, and Melbourne in the ranks of UNESCO’s Cities of Literature within the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. The announcement was made today by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Gerry Breen, who said ‘I am absolutely delighted about this achievement – which confirms what...
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Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes Penguin Ireland MD, Michael McLoughlin, has revealed that Penguin Ireland sold only 100 ebooks in 2009. Speaking at the Irish Branch Conference of the Booksellers Association in the Hilton Hotel, Dublin, Saturday, McLoughlin said that so far in 2010 Penguin Ireland had sold over 1000 ebooks and he...
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Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes Hughes & Hughes may now have closed but bookshops of many varieties still trade near their former locations. Irish Publishing News offers a list of the bookshops nearby that can offer books to keep readers looking for new releases or bargain books happy. In this edition: Wexford Sadly...
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Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes photo credit: psd On the face it might seem like a crazy suggestion that Penguin Ireland, less than a decade after being set up could possibly be the largest Irish-based trade publisher. When you look at the headline figures for sales from the Irish Consumer Market as compiled...
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