Reading time: 3 – 5 minutes Summer Giveaway! Free stuff Read more… Amazon’s ebook milestone: digital sales outstrip hardbacks for first time in US Amazon sold more kindle ebooks than hardback books in the last three months Read more… A Look at Mexico City’s Book Kiosks Nice feature from Publishing Perspectives Read more… A...
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Reading time: < 1 minute Great article by Sinead Gleeson on last lines in the Irish Times on Saturday! When I was 16 I read a novel I absolutely loved, and I can still remember the shimmering pleasure its last line gave. From Dickens’s Great Expectations : “I took her hand in mine, and...
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Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes Hachette Ireland is to publish a memoir by Irish Times journalist and cystic fibrosis sufferer Orla Tinsley. Tinsley came to prominence as a vocal campaigner for better state care for cystic fibrosis patients. She was the Joint Winner of Young Person of the Year in 2008. The book will focus...
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Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes Hughes & Hughes was officially placed in liquidation at a creditors meeting in Dublin yesterday with Kieran Wallace of KPMG appointed as liquidator. The Irish Times carries a full report: Employees (who are ranked as preferential creditors) are owed €250,000, while employment-related taxes of €148,000 are also due....
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