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Continue reading →: My Bookseller Piece – Ireland: a native hunger
It’s not my headline but I think it gets the point across So the full text is here Bestsellers are a rare thing for an Irish fiction publisher, though Poolbeg is still doing a fine job of breaking new talent—in fact all four of those titles mentioned above in the…
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Continue reading →: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt stops acquiring books?
Eoin Purcell UPDATE: PUBRANTS SAYS THIS DOESN’T INCLUDE KIDS! HERE No seriously they have Here & Here: It’s been clear for months that it will be a not-so-merry holiday season for publishers, but at least one house has gone so far as to halt acquisitions. PW has learned that Houghton…
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Continue reading →: New Media, New Audience Conference
Eoin Purcell Berry Bros & Rudd I’m just back from fine dinner in the fantastic upstairs room of the Weights & Measure building that Berry Bros & Rudd now occupy. The meal was for panelists and speakers at tomorrow’s (Or today’s) Arts Council Conference on New Media, New Audience?. If…
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Continue reading →: The fate of smaller markets
Eoin Purcell With big ones on their doorstep Hachette is launching a Scottish division. BookBrunch comments: In non-fiction, Hachette Scotland will be a rival to houses including Mainstream (half-owned by Random House), Birlinn, and Black & White. It will have the clout to put greater marketing efforts behind commercial fiction…
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