The Miniaturist, Jessie Burton's award-winning, best-selling first novel, is one of 10 titles in contention for a £10,000 prize for debut novelists. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2015-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
France's Syndicat National de l’Edition (SNE) has launched a social media campaign to encourage readers to support the fight for a lower VAT on ebooks. The post #ThatIsNotABook: How to Campaign to Lower European Ebook VAT appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Magazine media continues to do what we have done for hundreds of years. The post The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2015-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Toy giant Mattel revealed its publishing plans to The Bookseller Daily at Bologna, including the dramatic shift of moving creation of Barbie assets in-house, plus new ranges for Thomas & Friends and Bob the Builder. Venetia Davie, vice-president of global publishing at Mattel, said that... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
A 'Business Insider' story is seen by some as Amazon turning up the heat on HarperCollins over sales terms negotiations. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers and bookshops around the world got into the spirit of April Fools' Day today (April 1st), with a number of spoof announcements and unbelievable inventions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
A series of high-profile acquistions have galvanised this year’s Bologna Children’s Book Fair, including Alex Scarrow’s sensational move of publisher, an Egmont series on coding and a science fiction twist on the “sick lit” genre. Macmillan Children’s Books announced a “substantial” three-book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Saudi Arabia's Obeikan is a leader in education publishing, with nearly 3,000 titles, a print operation, as well as 20 bookstores across the country. The post Obeikan: Saudi Arabia’s Education Publisher, Bookseller, Printer appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Egmont Publishing will next year release a Winnie-The-Pooh anthology to mark the 90th anniversary of the original A A Milne book. The anthology, currently untitled, is a sequel to Return to the Hundred Acre Wood in 2009, which was the first authorised sequel to A. A. Milne’s stories. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writer Abiola Bello and publicist Helen Lewis will launch The Author School, a “creative and innovative new community for aspiring, self-published and published authors”, during London Book Fair. The school will involve classes, workshops, one-to-one tutorials and online courses, with the first... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Business Insider, reports that the contract between Amazon and HarperCollins is close to expiring, and HC is balking at Amazon's current offer. The post Is a Battle Between Amazon and HarperCollins Looming? appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Authors including Philip Pullman, Michael Rosen, John Dougherty, and Alan Gibbons have signed a letter saying baseline assessment tests should not be brought in to primary schools. The tests, to be introduced in September 2015, will take place in the first few weeks after a child starts in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Dan Odegard, who co-founded St. Paul's Odegard's Books in 1978, died of plasma cancer Tuesday. Odegard's was regarded as a Twin Cities literary icon until it closed in 1992. Odegard also served as director of trade publishing at Hazelden Publishing from 1995-1998. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The ongoing terms negotiation between Amazon and HarperCollins in the US has been reported by Business Insider, the online newspaper that counts Amazon founder Jeff Bezos among its investors. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
It's the 16th site to be redesigned using the company's universal publishing platform in the last year. The post Hearst Rolls Out a New Delish.com appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2015-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The children’s sector outperformed the overall market in Italy in 2014, and has been “the saviour of the Italian book market”, according to Associazione Italiana Editori (AIE), the Italian publishers association. While the Italian book market declined in 2014 (–3.8% in value terms, to €2.56bn)... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
UK independent Little Tiger Press is making its first move into licensing by acquiring Jeff Norton’s digital picture book Stomp School: Love You, Kaiju!. Little Tiger acquired the global print rights from Made in Me, the creative agency that publishes the digital version of the book, to be... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The company, along with a network of other entities, is accused of charging as much as twice the regular subscription price and pocketing the difference. The post Multi-State Lawsuit Filed Against Orbital Publishing Group appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2015-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Craig Davidson, writing under the pseudonym Nick Cutter, has been named the winner of the inaugural James Herbert Award for Horror Writing for his book The Troop (Headline). The award was set up in honour of the late horror writer James Herbert, and aims to discover and publicise a new... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nikao Yang is the senior vice president of global marketing at Opera Mediaworks and senior vice president of business development and marketing. “Scrolling the feed” is the new flicking through TV channels with a remote. It’s the alternative to flipping the pages in a magazine. It’s even... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]