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 ]
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 ]
Piatkus has acquired Blind by Cath Weeks. Editorial director Emma Beswetherick bought world rights to Blind and one other novel direct from the author. Blind is about a mother who gives birth to a blind baby boy and is “a story about how hard we battle for our children and delves into the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-02 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 ]
Obama announced a plan to give low-income children access to 10,000 ebooks, part of a larger strategy to lift inner city communities by improving educational opportunities for kids. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Orion has signed two books by Kate Lord Brown, who has previously been published by Atlantic’s Corvus imprint. Kate Mills, Orion publishing director, acquired the novels from Sheila Crowley at Curtis Brown, for a “good five-figure sum”. The first novel, The Christmas We Met, will be published... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The social network’s results and revenues are failing to impress investors – especially when compared with Facebook’s and Google’sGood news travels fast, but bad news even faster – especially if it’s the release of lacklustre results from Twitter. That’s what happened on Tuesday last week when,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Literary festivals are growing in importance for retailer Blackwell’s, with the company actively seeking to establish partnerships with the sector. Zool Verjee, Blackwell’s sales development manager, told The Bookseller the chain had enjoyed sales growth of 15% year on year after partnering... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Granta owner Sigrid Rausing has been shortlisted for the 2015 RSL Ondaatje Prize for her book Everything is Wonderful (Grove Press), alongside authors including Helen Dunmore and Elif Shafak. The annual award of £10,000 is given for a distinguished work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 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 ]
Ingram Content Group has sold its library supply business Coutts Information Services to ProQuest. The acquisition, which also includes the platforms MyiLibrary and OASIS, is expected to close within the next few weeks. ProQuest is an information and technology company based in Michigan in the... 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 ]
Serpent's Tail has signed two books from Orange Prize-winner Valerie Martin, a novel and a collection of short stories. Commissioning editor Rebecca Gray signed UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) from Peter Straus at RCW, on behalf of Molly Friedrich at the Friedrich Agency. Short... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pan Macmillan’s Bluebird has acquired world rights in a multi-book deal with foster carer Angela Hart. Carole Tonkinson acquired rights direct from Hart, who is using a pseudonym. The first book will be Terrified: The heartbreaking true story of a girl nobody loved and the woman who saved... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The book trade has abandoned the Liberal Democrats in favour of Labour and the Green Party in the five years since the last election, according to a poll of voting intentions conducted by The Bookseller. Support for libraries and making Amazon pay a fair share of tax are the issues the trade is... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Historian Patrick French has been appointed as Doris Lessing’s new biographer. Lessing died in November 2013 at the age of 94. French is the author of The World Is What It Is: The Authorised Biography of V. S. Naipaul (Picador), which won the Hawthornden Prize and The National Book Critics... 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 ]
The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, and more for the week ended April 26, 2015. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Audible, the Amazon-owned audio product company, is releasing a new audio drama production on 8th May, based on Sebastian Fitzek’s German-language thriller Amok. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
In October 2014, Rowman & Littlefield CEO Jed Lyons brought on Jim Childs, former president of Time Home Entertainment and publisher of Oxmoor House, as publisher of Globe Pequot, which R&L had acquired five months earlier. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]