Canongate has signed the latest book from Karl Pilkington, planned for released in summer 2016. The Worldly Wisdom of Karl Pilkington will be Pilkington's fourth book with Canongate, and will see him share his thoughts on a range of topics, from art to pollution and identity. Canongate... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Christian fiction ebook sales have leveled off after several years of steady increases, with many publishers reporting digital holding steady at 30%–40% of overall inspirational fiction sales. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ebookseller Kobo is offering free ebooks and previews to Southwest Airlines passengers through the airline's inflight entertainment portal. The post Kobo Offers Ebooks to Southwest Airlines Passengers appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lawyers acting for Author Solutions are due to file new papers with a New York court this week in the latest development in the lawsuit against the assisted publisher. The Penguin Random House-owned company Author Solutions provides a variety of services direct to authors under a series of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
The final book in Laura Lam’s Dark Circus series – the first two books of which were published by the now-closed Osprey imprint Strange Chemistry – will be published by Pan Macmillan. Pan Macmillan has acquired world rights to the series, consisting of Pantomime, Shadowplay and Masquerade, from... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Galley Beggar Press (GBP) will launch a non-fiction list in early 2016 with a memoir by novelist Toby Litt and a title from début writer Megan Dunn. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Despite the much-discussed 15% drop in Christian fiction print unit sales from 2013 to 2014, as reported by Nielsen BookScan, publishers aren’t sounding the category’s death knell yet. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michael Silverman is uniquely qualified among Boston sportswriters to assess Pedro Martinez’s fascinating life and career. Just two years into covering the Red Sox for the Boston Herald, Silverman contacted Martinez after he had been traded from the Expos in November 1997. Silverman, without the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2015-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Libraries, publishers and bookshops will suffer under a Conservative government, a leading independent publisher has warned. When collecting the Independent Publisher of the Year trophy at the Bookseller Industry Awards on Monday (11th May), Profile Books m.d. Andrew Franklin gave a strong... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Macmillan has acquired two books by sports psychologist Professor Damian Hughes. Non-fiction publisher Robin Harvie acquired world rights to The Five Steps to a Winning Mindset and one other book from David Luxton at DLA. Luxton is the author of How to Think Like Sir Alex Ferguson, which was... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
In this week's column agent Holly McGhee closes on her debut middle grade novel; British author Clare Mackintosh inks a two-book deal with Berkley; TV writer Ron McGee signs with HC Kids; and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
In 1915, after working as a page at Doubleday and with publisher Mitchell Kennerley, Alfred A. Knopf accepted a $5,000 advance from his father to begin an eponymous publisher. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Murray is to publish Thing Explainer, the follow-up to Randall Munroe’s What If? In Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words, Munroe uses a series of diagrams to show how a variety of things, from a nuclear bomb to a biro, work. He will use just the drawings and a vocabulary of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
'Clinton Cash' and 'Selfish' both landed in the top 15 adult nonfiction bestsellers, according to data released by Nielsen BookScan on Wednesday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pan Macmillan has acquired three new novels by Diane Chamberlain. Chamberlain is the author of 24 novels, and the first book in the new contract will be published in hardback in 2017. Publishing director Wayne Brookes signed the new deal with Angharad Kowal of Writer’s House UK. Brookes said:... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
When Facebook on Wednesday unveiled its new Instant Articles feature that allows news organizations to publish directly to the social media platform—and, in the process, set off an avalanche of commentary and speculation about the future of ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Imperial War Museums (IWM) has decided against imposing a charge for using its research room, a controversial measure it had mooted earlier in the year as part of a cost-saving package of cuts. However it is to introduce a "voluntary donation scheme" for those who use the library for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
When Penguin Random House announced recently that it had acquired world rights to the next two adult coloring books from Johanna Basford, the so-called queen of coloring, it was just the latest sign that the demand for coloring books in the U.S. is continuing to surge. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Six years after Book Soup founder Glenn Goldman’s death, his iconic bookstore on Los Angeles’s Sunset Strip is getting ready to celebrate its 40th birthday over the June 12–14 weekend. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Why would publishers want to jump into bed with their top "frenemy" Facebook? Well, they're not, entirely.Four of the first U.S. publishers to publish mobile articles directly on Facebook through its new Instant Articles program -- The New York Times, BuzzFeed, National Geographic and NBC News... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2015-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]