'These are the books that speak most immediately to young people, dealing with many of the difficult issues that arise in their own lives, or in the lives of their friends,' Judith Platt, chair of the Banned Books Week national committee, said of challenged YA books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
In this week's Digiday Podcast, Troy Young, president of digital media at Hearst Magazines, joined us to discuss how traditional media companies change -- and what will determine the winners in the fast-changing digital media market. "The whole publishing mechanism for digital is very different... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oscar-winning actress Reese Witherspoon will narrate the audio edition of Harper Lee's forthcoming novel, Go Set a Watchman. The audiobook will be published by Random House Audiobooks on 14th July, alongside the print edition, published in the UK by William Heinemann. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Over the last decade, publishers have seen many external factors impacting their business models. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Since the collapse of Borders, independent booksellers’ role in the sale of print books has increased, but that does not seem to be the case for physical audio. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
The publishing industry is constantly evolving with improved workflows and processes. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House UK and taxi ordering app Hailo have partnered on a new scheme which will see free physical and audiobooks given away. Free books will be left in cabs which use the Hailo service, under the #BlackCabBooks scheme, while audiobook extracts will be available through the app... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
The death knell for CDs has not quite sounded yet, but sales from late 2014 and early 2015 indicate that a move away from the format may be quickening. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins has appointed Oli Malcolm to the role of publishing strategy director for fiction, non-fiction and Avon. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scholastic selling tech group to HMH and more in this week's publishing news briefs. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
April 23, Dia de Sant Jordi, the Catalan festival dedicated to books and roses, accounts for 5–8% of annual book sales in Catalonia. The post Catalonia Celebrates Biggest Book-Giving Holiday of the Year appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
This week: Werner Herzog walks on ice, Oliver Sacks's new memoir, and the golden age of murder. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Quercus Books is to host a digital-led "Day of the Girl" celebration of Lisbeth Salander, the heroine of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series, on the character’s birthday on 30th April. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Farmer and writer John Lewis-Stempel has won the Thwaites Wainwright Prize 2015 for Meadowland: the Private Life of an English Field (Black Swan). Worth £5,000, the annual book prize is awarded by publisher Frances Lincoln, in association with the National Trust, to highlight the best books in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Maisie Shearring, the young British illustrator who picked a $30,000 award at the Bologna Book Fair, has shared some of her work with The Bookseller. Shearring won the Fundación SM International Award for Illustration for her illustrations from her comic Susan's School Days, which were... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tesco has reported the worst results in its history – registering a pre-tax loss of £6.4bn in the last year. The UK supermarket, a big vendor of books, and currently being investigated by the Serious Fraud Office after it overstated its half-year profit forecast last August by £263m, sustained... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google is testing a new advertising product seen as the last piece it needs to complete its ad tech superstructure. The search giant is building a data management platform to help target ads and connect brands with people online more effectively, according to sources familiar with the plans. ... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2015-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jonathan Lanman, longtime children's book editor and former v-p and editorial director at Atheneum Books for Young Readers, died on April 19. He was 62. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
With no new hits, sales of juvenile fiction print books fell 46% last week compared to the same week in 2014, while sales of juvenile nonfiction dropped 39%. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
British scientists say their research confirms that emotion-charged passages in 'Harry Potter' books have significant impact on the brains of readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]