Tagged: Books & News
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Amazon acquires bookish social community Goodreads News
29.03.2013 E-commerce, gadget and cloud giant Amazon has acquired Goodreads, the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations which has a community of 16m who have added 530m... -
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s book reaches No 1 on best-seller lists News
26.03.2013 Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, has reached the No 1 spot on two influential best-seller lists, after having only been released... -
Grimms’ Puss in Boots gets the StoryToys 3D storybook treatment News
13.12.2012 Interactive book publisher StoryToys adds to its collection of Grimms’ fairy tales with its take on the classic story of Puss in Boots, available now from the App Store and... -
Twitter tales for #shortstorylongnight now a book for Focus Ireland News
14.11.2012 More than 800 tweet-sized tales generated by social media users last winter have been collected in book form to raise money for Focus Ireland.Categories: Social Media -
Eason opens virtual bookshop at Dublin’s Connolly Station News
22.10.2012 Book retailer Eason has launched what it deems Ireland’s first-ever virtual mobile bookshop at Connolly Station in Dublin. -
The rise of e-reading: are books going to become an endangered species (infographic) News
21.09.2012 Amazon UK’s latest figures in August revealed that for every 100 books sold on Amazon.co.uk in 2012, 114 e-books have been sold. The advent of e-readers has only helped bolster... -
Ebook sales overtake books on Amazon UK News
07.08.2012 Amazon UK’s latest figures show that sales of ebooks for its Kindle devices are now higher than sales of the physical product. -
Amazon.com unveils Textbook Rental News
07.08.2012 College students across the US can now save money on buying textbooks by renting them from Amazon.com instead, as the e-commerce giant has just opened a new chapter in its... -
Amazon has a new game studio, and a literary Facebook game (video) News
07.08.2012 Amazon has revealed its new games team, Amazon Game Studios, along with the release of a new social game for Facebook, Living Classics, that sees gameplay take place amid the... -
Facebook launches new site focusing on users’ stories (video) News
03.08.2012 Facebook Stories, a new site created by Facebook, will share inspiring stories happening on the social network while also helping users discover new music to listen to and books... -
Fifty Shades of Grey books outsell Harry Potter on Amazon.co.uk News
01.08.2012 The popular Fifty Shades of Grey triology has overtaken the seven Harry Potter books to become the best-selling book series on Amazon.co.uk. -
Fans of author Maeve Binchy pay tribute on Twitter News
31.07.2012 Irish best-selling novelist Maeve Binchy died in hospital last night after a short illness at the age of 72, and fans of the Dalkey-born writer have taken to Twitter to express... -
Toll company eFlow to partner with Eason to offer school book discounts for its customers News
17.07.2012 For those who are regular users of toll roads operated by tolling provider eFlow, and also have kids who are heading back to school in September, the company has announced a new... -
Web series based on 'Beat Girl' by Irish writer goes live on Pinterest News
28.06.2012 A new web series based on the Beat Girl novel by Irish writer Jasmina Kallay and produced by production company beActive has gone live on Pinterest. Its producers claim it is...Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Social Media, Multimedia, Media, Internet, Digital Media, Digital Marketing -
OverDrive e-books now available in one-third of Irish public libraries News
12.06.2012 Interleaf Technology, a technology provider for library services, announced today that its e-books and audio books solution, OverDrive, is seeing continued growth in Irish... -
Microsoft invests US$300m into Barnes & Noble e-book subsidiary News
30.04.2012 Microsoft has partnered with book retailer Barnes & Noble, investing US$300m to create a new subsidiary focusing squarely at the e-reading market. The deal will also see a Nook... -
Harry Potter e-books on sale from today on Pottermore News
27.03.2012 The Harry Potter series is finally available in e-book form through the interactive reading website Pottermore. The e-books are compatible with all major e-readers. -
Pottermore to open to public in April after long delay News
08.03.2012 The interactive Harry Potter online reading site Pottermore will finally open to the general public in April 2012. It was scheduled to open in October 2011, but the beta period... -
Eason is the first Irish brand to hit Pinterest News
13.02.2012 Eason is the first Irish brand to bring its presence to social pinboard site Pinterest, using it to highlight its business and product range.Tags: Pinterest, Social Media, Books, ebooks, Social Networking, Retail, Brand, Brand Identity, Ireland -
Irish ‘Tweet Treats’ book gets nominated for Gourmand Award News
11.01.2012 Siliconrepublic.com spoke to Jane Travers, editor of Tweet Treats, a book consisting of 140 character-long recipes from Twitter which has been shortlisted for the Gourmand World...