Meredith Corp. said Gayle Butler, who helped expand the magazine’s digital reach, would be replaced by Stephen Orr, the executive editor at Conde Nast Traveler. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2015-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pre-orders of E L James’ new Fifty Shades of Grey novel, Grey (Arrow), have leapt to the top of retailers' bestseller charts in both physical and digital formats. The novel, which will be released on 18th June, will tell the story of Fifty Shades of Grey from the point of view of Christian... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
China, BEA's guest of honor this year, was the enthusiastic host to the May 28th BEA panel on Children's and YA literature in China and America. Their interest in children's literature was evident. But the event required a lot of patience. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nielsen is in the testing stage to develop a festival sales channel to record sales from Hay and Edinburgh Literary Festivals. The information company has been liaising with Hay Festival and Edinburgh Book Festival on the prospect of producing a BookScan “festival sales measurement” after... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ali Smith wins the £30,000 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction for her time-shifting novel How to be Both. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2015-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Although BookCon 2015 featured appearances galore by Hollywood celebrities, the Paper Towns panel on Saturday evening surely was the highlight of this year's literary fanfest for the raucous crowd of 2,250 that filled the enormous Special Events hall. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Marian Keyes has notched her tenth UK Official Top 50 number one, returning to the pole position for the first time in over two years. Keyes’ The Woman Who Stole My Life (Penguin) sold 24,139 copies through Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market, an impressive 27% rise on its first week... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Here are 13 comics about the LGBTQ experience, from classics to contemporary sensations. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Excerpted from Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves by Adam Hochschild. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2015-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Milena Alberti, who most recently held the post of head of global corporate finance, succeeds Coram Williams, who will become CFO of Pearson later this summer. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
"Journalism is the new marketing degree" is the slightly sarcastic motto among New York Times staffers, many of them former journalists, who create articles and videos for brands. It appears the same could be said at The Atlantic, which just hired former Time magazine Managing Editor James... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2015-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Guardian Faber has signed a book looking back at the pictures of Observer photographer Jane Bown, who died last year. Jane Bown: A Lifetime of Looking, will collect more than 200 black and white and colour images from Bown's career, putting her portraits of people such as the Queen and Samuel... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fantasy author accuses the online giant of using its market dominance ‘to control what we write and what we read’The grande dame of fantasy Ursula K Le Guin has weighed in forcefully to the debate about Amazon’s role in publishing. In a blogpost on the site Book View Cafe, entitled “Up the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Traditional media companies will continue to feel a financial squeeze over the next four years, as flat or declining revenues are expected at magazine and newspaper publishers even as they post gains in digital advertising and subscriptions, a new report shows.Consumer magazine revenue will be... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2015-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne has been cast as the lead actor in Harry Potter spin-off film “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”, written by J K Rowling. Redmayne will play Newt Scamander, the wizarding world’s pre-eminent "magizoologist", who travels the world and documents magical... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
"Vested interests" profiting only a few will attempt to hold up the reform of copyright, Andrus Ansip, vice president for the digital single market (DSM) at the European Commission, has said. Speaking at the European Digital Forum in Brussels yesterday (1st June), Ansip said that copyright... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House Germany will bring the iconic Penguin brand to German readers with the launch of Penguin Verlag. The first titles will come out in 2016. The post Penguin Comes to Germany appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Following the merger of most of Macmillan’s higher education assets with Springer Science+ Business Media, Macmillan’s trade operations have begun phasing out the use of the Palgrave name. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Travel quarterly to debut in September with 450,000 circ. The post Lonely Planet Has Plenty of Company with New Magazine Launch appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2015-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Yale University Press will publish the Windham-Campbell Prizes's annual keynote addresses in a new series titled "Why I Write.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]