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LAST JANUARY, in this column, I ruminated on the nature of and effect the Kindle may have on the printed book. On foot of the varied reaction to the article, I decided it was something that deserved further investigation and to this end, let my nearest and dearest know that a Kindle would be a most welcome birthday gift.

LAST JANUARY, in this column, I ruminated on the nature of and effect the Kindle may have on the printed book. On foot of the varied reaction to the article, I decided it was something that deserved further investigation and to this end, let my nearest and dearest know that a Kindle would be a most welcome birthday gift.

CRASH!, Julian Gough’s surreal, comic, and topical Kindle Single novella about the Irish and European economic downturn, has become the top-selling short story in Britain.

GALWAY BASED writer Dick Donaghue has just published his third book, CRASH and Other Stories as an eBook.

AS A bookseller, the perceived challenge posed by modern technology in general, and by the Kindle in particular, to the continued existence of the book is a matter of professional and personal concern.

A NEW book from the Galway author, playwright, and personality Dick Byrne, My Love Is On The Wind, is now available from Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing store.

Many years ago I had the privilege of being invited, with Alf MacLochlain, then the Librarian at NUI Galway, to contribute to a Radio One programme on the state of the Irish publishing industry, which was then flourishing for the first time in the country’s history.

Bord Gáis Energy has launched an online book club, www.bordgaisenergybookclub.ie, to provide an invaluable free resource for the hundreds of thousands of people who enjoy reading in Ireland and particularly those in book clubs. There are an estimated 55 book clubs in Mayo.