The success of the second standalone Children’s Institute last year in San Antonio, Tex., paved the way for a third educational conference for children’s booksellers this spring in Pasadena, Calif. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Great campaigns aren’t made in a vacuum. They build on what has come before, a combination of innovation and collaboration that delivers something unique to each author, title or brand. With this in mind, the 2015 Marketing & Publicity Conference brings you speakers from within and outside... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers need to communicate better with authors, pay them more and utilise writers’ skills to market books, but most writers would still choose to be published traditionally, a survey has found. The Do You Love Your Publisher? survey, co-produced by authors Harry Bingham (in the UK) and Jane... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The founders of the UK's Literary Platform reflect on the changes they've seen in digital publishing over the 5 years since launching their consultancy. The post London’s Literary Platform on A Half-Decade of Digital Change appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers and agents have agreed a set of guidelines for negotiating author contracts, following concerns author payments were being delayed. The Publishers Association (PA) and Association of Authors’ Agents (AAA) said the guidelines were designed to “speed up the process for the benefit of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mariella Frostrup is returning to host The Bookseller Industry Awards for 2015 for a second consecutive year. The BBC Radio 4 "Open Book" presenter, who was hugely popular with the audience at last year’s event, will be back at the helm of this year's ceremony at the Hilton Hotel on Park Lane,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
AP Editions will release titles about current events and global personalities based on the work of AP reporters stationed throughout the world. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
When Sweetwater Books declined to publish a book with a co-author's biography that mentioned a "partner," the book found a new, better home: Scholastic. The post Happy Ending for Gay Author Thwarted by Small Publisher appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The publishing veteran and author of seven books about St. Francis of Assisi has been tapped to head Franciscan Media Books, the nonprofit publishing arm of the Franciscan Friars of St. John the Baptist. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is currently seeking a law change in the US that would enable third parties to preserve older games that are no longer supported by their publisher in ways that, currently breach copyright law. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2015-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oyster, the subscription ebook startup that has been slowly persuading publishers to embrace the Netflix model for books, has now ventured into the ebook retail business: On Wednesday, the... To view the full story, click the title link. Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2015-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
E-book services company ePubDirect has today (8th April) relaunched itself as Vearsa. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Children's Book Week 2015 celebration, which will take place May 4–10, features a variety of events across the country. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
McGraw-Hill’s Kevin Watt will join digital textbook platform Kortext as business development director at the end of April. Watt is moving from his position as head of sales for the UK, Ireland, Northern Europe and Southern Africa at McGraw-Hill Education. In his new role at Kortext, Watt will... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Weidenfeld & Nicolson (W&N) will be the masthead sponsor of this year’s inaugural London Book & Screen Week. The sponsorship will give W&N exclusive branding across all online and print collateral for London Book & Screen Week, as well as mobile branding in the form of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The findings of a new survey debunks theories that Facebook is losing its “cool factor” among teenagers.Facebook is the most popular social network among teens, according to the results of the survey published Wednesday night by the Pew Research Center. The researchers found that 71 percent of... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2015-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Spain-based Dosdoce.com this week released an English language version of its 2014 report “New Business Models in the Digital Age.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Egmont has signed four books by Jess French, a zoologist and wildlife presenter of kids TV channel CBeebies. The books are non-fiction titles about “minibeasts” and Egmont will publish Fluttering Minibeast Adventures and Tickly Minibeast Adventures in March 2016 with a further two books, Slimy... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Alfie Deyes has avoided the difficult second book syndrome by notching up his, and publisher Blink’s, first UK Official Top 50 number one. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Japanese writer Haruki Murakami makes the shortlist for 2015's Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, alongside newly-translated authors from Equatorial Guinea and Colombia. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2015-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]