China is the focus country of this year's Global Market Forum, and the delegation is the largest that BEA has ever seen. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
President Barack Obama announced a new program on Thursday aimed at delivering access for more than 10,000 ebooks to financially strapped schoolchildren throughout the United States. The $250 million program will feature titles from numerous publish... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
In Romania, online sales now account for 20% of the $110 million book market, with interest in ebooks and English-language titles also on the rise. The post Romania’s Online, English Book Sales on the Rise appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Knopf is putting lots of marketing muscle behind "City on Fire," a 900-page first novel by Garth Risk Hallberg, for which the publisher is building bookseller interest well before its October pub date. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
A couple who were splashed across the national press when they delivered a petition to 10 Downing Street calling on Amazon to pay corporation tax in the UK have sold their two bookshops. Keith and Frances Smith who owned Warwick Books and Kenilworth Books have sold both the indies to new owners... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
When ReedPop announced ambitious plans for its inaugural BookCon show last year, publishers were skeptical, and they had every right to be. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Five years ago, in a 2010 BEA preview article for PW, Sachem (N.Y.) Public Library’s Lauren Gilbert playfully dubbed librarians the Rodney Dangerfields of BookExpo America—the “dowdy, poor relations” who get no respect at the publishing family reunion that is BEA. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 2015 edition of BookExpo America, once again set for New York City’s Javits Center, will deliver many perennially popular events, such as the various buzz panels, the hundreds of autographing sessions, and the marquee-author breakfasts, along with new elements and changes designed to better... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Critiques of leading magazine covers. The post Face Up: Audubon appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 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 ]
Spanish and Portuguese-language specialists, the Mertin LIterary Agency, took home "International Literary Agent of the Year" prize at the LBF this month. The post Spanish-language Specialists Mertin Literary Agency Honored appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
W H Smith’s book director Michael Neil will be leaving the business at the end of May. Neil joined W H Smith at the beginning of 2014 as its business unit director for books. In this role, he has been responsible for the full books and ebooks offer at WH Smith High Street and has delivered a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
This week: David McCullough on the Wright Brothers, Kate Atkinson's follow-up to "Life After Life," and the definitive biography of Saul Bellow. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Roy Keane and Roddy Doyle's memoir The Second Half leads the nominations for the Cross British Sports Book Awards shortlists, as it competes for three separate prizes. The book, published by Orion, is in the running for autobiography of the year, football book of the year and the outstanding... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mark Smith at Zaffre, the new adult fiction imprint at Bonnier Publishing, has sold US rights for L S Hilton's Maestra in a seven-figure pre-empt to Putnam. Maestra is the first of three psychological thrillers set in the art world, and has already been optioned by Columbia Pictures for a film... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Phil Carroll, former head of book buying for Sainsbury's, is joining Pedigree Books Ltd as its interim head of sales. Pedigree Books, sister company to Pedigree Dolls & Toys, publishes annuals, yearbooks, learning and seasonal activity formats for children. Carroll will join the company on... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Satanic Verses author refuses to back down after being accused of using ‘McCarthy era’ language in attack on six writers who withdrew from PEN gala over award to satirical magazineSalman Rushdie and Francine Prose have clashed publicly on Facebook over Charlie Hebdo, with the author of The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House’s crime community Dead Good Books has created six awards to be presented at this year’s Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Writing Festival by authors including Lee Child and Val McDermid. Each award has been created in collaboration with the Dead Good Facebook community and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Malcolm Edwards is to leave the roles of deputy c.e.o. and publisher of Orion at the end of this year. Edwards, 65, will become chairman of Gollancz, where he started his publishing career in the 1970s, and consultant publisher at Orion. Orion c.e.o. David Young said he had been talking to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Daily Telegraph's head of books Gaby Wood is chosen as the new head of the Man Booker Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2015-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]