We all know how certain books, read at key moments in our lives, remain memorable and influential for years afterward. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
At a press conference at this week's London Book Fair (14th April), Brian May revealed that he will publish a new book of 3-D Queen photos, Queen in 3-D (Autumn 2016), via his own publishing imprint, the London Stereoscopic Company (LSC). Only a handful of the photographs included in the book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Gay penguins, alien lovers and a cartoonist growing up on an Indian reservation are among the subjects of the books Americans are most keen to see banned from library shelves. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2015-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The noted Italian writer Primo Levi (1919–1987), an Auschwitz survivor and the author of such acclaimed works as "If This Is a Man and The Periodic Table," is sometimes referred to as a Holocaust writer. 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 ]
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 ]
The Quarto Group is launching a new online business which will enable readers to create personalised hardback cookbooks. This is Your Cookbook lets users create a 96-page hardback, collating recipes from Quarto’s archives as well as incorporating their own recipes. Users can also add images,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The latest report, for the six-month period ending in February, hints at the tension that has marked Apple's monitorship thus far. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Radio Times magazine will host an annual festival celebrating the links between books, radio and television. The inaugural festival will take place at Hampton Court Palace from 24th–27th September. The festival aims to raise awareness of the fact that many TV and radio programmes are based on... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new publishing model has launched, offering authors a 50% share of revenue on book sales. Lightning Books, the fiction imprint of the newly created Eyestorm Media, operates a co-publishing model. It was founded by Eye Books owner Dan Hiscocks, a former director of the Independent Publishers’... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 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 ]
This week, Toni Morrison's new novel, the story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway, and Montmartre at the beginning of modernism. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Editora Rocco has bought Brazilian Portuguese rights in Flying Fergus, a six-book series for readers aged five to eight by Olympian Sir Chris Hoy and Joanna Nadin, in a six-figure pre-empt from Jessica Maslen, rights manager at The Blair Partnership. Hot Key Books has acquired UK &... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ridley Scott is on board to produce a film adaptation of Anita Moorjani’s book about her four-year battle against cancer (Hay House). Scott has teamed with Giannina Facio and Colet Abedi to option Dying To Be Me, which will be produced through Ridley Scott Films and Cara Films Ltd,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Channel 4 is gearing up to launch its own video game publisher. The UK broadcaster has commissioned mobile games before, but they've often been specific projects that relate to its most popular programming. Now, it wants to offer additional support t... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2015-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
In her more than 25 years in the bookselling business in Barbados, there isn’t much that Beverly Smith-Hinkson hasn’t done. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
A reader who lives in Paris eating too much cheese is keen on the Guardian’s film reviews and fashion – but misses curling up with the Saturday paperI’m one of those stereotypical expat writers: living in Paris, eating too much cheese and enjoying the wine a little too much. I am originally from... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
HC, Amazon reach terms agreement and more in this week's publishing news briefs. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 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 ]