12/11/2023
Delighted to attend the annual Publishing Ireland Irish Publishers Conference Trade Day, as part of this year's Dublin Book Festival, at the Dublin Castle Printworks on Fri 10 November. A thoroughly interesting, innovative and enjoyable day of talks, discussions, conversation and meeting new and old contacts from the same and related industries. Bookselling Ireland and other trade stands, the on-site The Gutter Bookshop, Dublin, attending other Dublin Book Festival events and the goodie bag gift. Special thanks to Publishing Ireland for putting all together & especially President of Publishing Ireland, Ivan O'Brien of The O'Brien Press. Thanks to the guest speakers Dr Andreas Guadamus on the Importance of AI for Publishers; Ireland's leading career psychologist, Sinead Brady, on Total Reset of career versus life skills; Managing Editor of The Royal Irish Academy, Ruth Hegarty, and Lucy Hogan on Open Access Books and the National Open Research Forum; Sara Mulruan from Nielsen BookScan with a review of the Irish Market Book Data for 2022; CEO of the Irish Copyright Licensing Agency, Samantha Holman, on the developments of Copyright and legislation, plus the keynote speaker, publishing veteran and author, Richard Charkin. Well worth the trip from Derry to Dublin and certainly a lot to think about and plan ahead for. Please do take a look at the photos below for a very realistic overview of the current publishing statistics, perspectives, future changes and challenges ahead. Please do keep supporting your local and Irish authors, illustrators, publishers, bookshops and libraries. We're all still here because of you - thank-you!
