The German labour union Verdi, which has a longstanding battle with Amazon over wages, has threatened to organise another series of strikes this year. According to Reuters, the union says Amazon is a retailer so should raise pay for its warehouse workers in accordance with collective bargaining... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Diversifying funding sources, making the Best Book Awards a biennual event and enforcing the idea of reading for pleasure are some of the goals for new Booktrust chief executive officer Diana Gerald, who took up the post in March. Gerald, who joined Booktrust from educational charity Ark... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Orion is to publish a book by "MasterChef" champion Ping Coombes. Ping’s Pantry will “invite its readers to Ping’s family table, and give them all the guidance they need to bring the sizzle, zest and spice of Malaysia to their own kitchens”. Coombes won "MasterChef" in 2014, and is the current... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Weidenfeld & Nicolson is to publish a book by Harvard social psychologist Amy Cuddy, whose TED Talk on body language has been viewed more than 25m times. Deputy publisher non-fiction, Amanda Harris, bought UK and Commonwealth Rights from HBG USA for Presence: How to Bring Your Boldest Self... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
How the rebels behind scholarly publishing app Mendeley—once labeled sellouts—are growing their company after being acquired by Elsevier.In 2013, when Victor Henning announced that his startup Mendeley would be acquired by one of the world's biggest media companies, he knew there would be... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2015-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nazi minister’s estate sues Random House Germany and imprint Siedler over the use of extracts from his diariesThe estate of Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler’s minister of propaganda, is taking legal action against the publisher Random House over a new biography, claiming payment for the use of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The London Book Fair has evolved to reflect the 'new ecology' of publishing and shift in confidence, says Faber's Stephen Page. The post London Book Fair’s Evolution Reflects Publishing’s “New Ecology” appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kimberley Young, publisher of women's fiction at HarperCollins, has signed world English language rights in three novels by Kimberley Chambers The six-figure deal with Tim Bates at Pollinger Ltd will see HC publishing Chambers until 2020. Young said: "Kimberley Chambers is a legend as are her... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Alma Books is launching a children’s and YA list of classic and translated titles and is hiring illustrators such as Axel Scheffler and Chris Mould. Alessandro Gallenzi, co-publisher at Alma, will launch 10 titles this September and 25 next year under the Alma imprint, and says the list is a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The shift to social reading is “liable to consign the traditional publisher and many a writer to decline and defeat in the Civil War for Books”, Philip Gwyn Jones is to say today (16th April), with the reader becoming the prize. In a speech at the London Book Fair this afternoon, Gwyn Jones... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Karen Joy Fowler's We are All Completely Besides Ourselves and David Nicholls' Us are the next two books to be selected for the ITV Loose Women Book Club. The recently-launched book club called Loose Books, sees a different Loose Women panellist pick a book to read each month, which will be... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Quercus has acquired a book by Guardian columnist and GQ culture writer Lindy West. Shrill will be a “laugh-out-loud portrayal of what it means to become self-aware the hard way, in a popular culture that is hostile to women (especially fat women) and doesn't think women (especially feminists)... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The last 10 days have been an especially busy period for all parts of the publishing industry, with major events taking place in London, Minneapolis, and Austin. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Playster, a digital multimedia streaming platform, will now sell ebooks from Simon & Schuster on a subscription basis. The post Playster Streaming Service to Offer Simon & Schuster Ebooks appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Cambridge University Press has boosted its Open Access (OA) programme to monographs, after launching a new service at the London Book Fair this week. The OA Monograph Publishing Service will enable CUP authors to print Gold OA monographs (which are freely available to the end user) for books of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperFiction has signed a self-published novel in a six-figure deal, as well as a further three books by Kimberley Chambers. Editorial director Natasha Bardon and executive publisher Kate Elton pre-empted UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, in Jason Gurley's Eleanor, in a deal with... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
PRH's U.S. division successfully launched the program in December 2014, and received 32,000 page views and 3,600 requests for recommendations during its first month alone. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Book fairs have become much more aware of the purchasing power of the Hispanic population in the U.S. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bill O’Reilly’s Legends and Lies (Henry Holt) becomes the sixth title to top the US book chart in 2015. It is the fifth full-length Non-fiction title focussing on the lives of historical figures written by the political commentator for publisher Henry Holt to have reached the summit since 2011.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
In Greenlight's Book/Plate series, a multi-course dinner and cocktail service for 40 diners and drinkers is crafted with a nonfiction book or novel in mind. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]