Pedro Martinez, author of 'Pedro' (HMH, 9780544279339), will appear on NBC's 'Late Night with Seth Meyers' on Tuesday, May 5. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The riots in Baltimore have made the publication of 'Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God' -- inspired by the death of Trayvon Martin -- unfortunately timely. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
In collaboration with Reading With Pictures and a number of publishers, the United Nations is planning The Comics Guide to Global Goals, a series of 17 comics that address the world's toughest development problems. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Inspired by 2014's California Bookstore Day, the first Independent Bookstore Day was held on May 2. Many stores reported an increase in sales. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Third quarter sales and earnings at HarperCollins rose 14% and 6%, respectively. Excluding the Harlequin purchase, however, results were down. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Suzanne Gibbs Taylor, associate publisher and creative director at Gibbs Smith, has been promoted to publisher and COO of the press. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The start-up with a free app that allows customers to purchase ebook editions of titles they already own, has added Macmillan to its roster of publishing partners. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Meerkat is reducing its dependency on Twitter by integrating address books and letting users post live video streams to Facebook.Installing the updated app now brings up an option to enter your phone number and give Meerkat access to your address book, so it can find other people who are using... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2015-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
April Bloomfield takes on fish in her third cookbook at Ecco, and Artisan signs two. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
United Airlines’ Rhapsody magazine features the likes of Joyce Carol Oates and Anthony Doerr. All you have to do to get a copy is pony up for a first-class ticketWould you like to read a new monthly luxury lifestyle and literary magazine, crammed with articles about theatre, art and fine dining,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the UAE, the new Sharjah Book Authority will offer printing services to regional publishers, as well as offer distribution, research and events. The post Sharjah Book Authority to Offer Regional Printing, Distribution appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Due to some reporting problems with the January data in the trade segment, the AAP has issued revised sales for the adult and children’s/young adult categories. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Skyhorse Publishing announced a series of promotions as phase one of a company-wide reorganization following record revenue growth in 2014. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Two central Minnesota bookstores owned by Sally Wizik Wills--Beagle Books in Park Rapids and Sister Wolf Books in Dorset--have been consolidated into one retail space, and re-named Beagle and Wolf Books & Bindery. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
As Apple works toward a relaunch of its Beats Music streaming service, it’s reportedly pushing labels to kill off the free version of Spotify.It’s a bold move by Apple if The Verge’s unnamed sources are accurate, coming less than two years after a judge found that the company colluded with... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2015-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
SurveyMonkey CEO David Goldberg, who grew the company to a $2 billion valuation, died suddenly on Friday night. He is survived by wife Sheryl Sandberg, the COO at Facebook Inc., and two children. Sandberg married Goldberg in 2004 and credited him in her book "Lean In" for his role in creating a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2015-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fourth Estate has acquired on proposal a book about American blues music by Natasha Peskin. Described as "part travel, part memoir and part oral history", A Soft Place to Lay: Stories of the Blues is inspired by Peskin's solo drive across the USA exploring the history of the music. Louise... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Want to know what to look out for during today's Free Comic Book Day? We've got you covered. The post What You Should Pick Up on Free Comic Book Day appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2015-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The French National Book Centre (Centre National du Livre, CNL) will cut subsidies for the 90-plus book fairs and literary festivals it supports next year if organisers do not agree to pay authors for giving talks and participating in debates. Meetings are being held with organisers, none of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Macmillan has signed Women in Football co-founder Anna Kessel to write the “ultimate handbook for every woman who cares about sport”. Non-fiction publisher Robin Harvie bought UK and Commonwealth rights to Every Girl Can from Richard Pike at Curtis Brown. Kessel, who is also a writer at the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]