Canongate has signed a book celebrating dogs of all shapes and sizes by photographer Lynn Terry. Publishing director of non-fiction Katy Follain bought UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, in a deal with Caspian Dennis at Abner Stein. US rights went to Gallery Books after an eight-way... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury has signed Meg Rosoff's first novel for adults, a romantic comedy set in New York. Helen Garnons-Williams, publishing director for fiction, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, at auction from Catherine Clarke at Felicity Bryan Associates. Duck Zoo tells the story... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House has acquired The NOPI Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi and Ramael Scully. The collection of more than 120 recipes from Ottolenghi and collaborator and NOPI head chef Scully will showcase the pair’s favourite recipes from the celebrated central London restaurant. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Russell Brand has used profits from his book Revolution (Century) to help fund a café in Hackney staffed by recovering drug addicts. The Trew Era café is a social enterprise located in a housing estate that faced eviction last year by a US company. The Guardian reports that Brand backed the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Music to the ears of people who buy and sell print ads: Martin Sorrell, the chief executive officer at WPP, says newspapers and magazines might not be getting the credit they deserve.According to a report in the Times of London, Mr. Sorrell told an audience this week at a Broadcasting Press... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2015-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
We asked attendees at last week’s Digiday Publishing Summit to come clean on their ability to face up to the threat of ad fraud. Here’s how well they’re coping with bots, how big of a threat ad fraud will be in the next 12 months and more. Sponsor content by Distil Networks. The post From bots... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pushkin Children’s Books has acquired another book by Tonke Dragt, author of The Letter for the King. Publisher Adam Freudenheim acquired world English rights to the book, which was first published in Dutch in 1966, from Luciënne van der Leije at publishing house Leopold. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Denmark-based software company, Integration X has made its way to North America, opening a new office in Nashua, N.H. Integration X provides solutions for newspapers, magazines, and digital publishers that automate work processes and add value to ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Waterstones is to appoint Hobbycraft's Ed Armitage to head up its e-commerce operation. Armitage, currently head of multichannel at craft and gift retailer Hobbycraft, will take up his position as Waterstones E-Commerce Director from May. Armitage replaces Colm McCrory, former head of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Olympic cyclist Sir Chris Hoy is writing a children’s series about a boy and his bike with author Joanna Nadin. The Flying Fergus series is about eight-year-old Fergus, who desperately wants a bike for his ninth birthday. The bike he wants is too expensive so he inherits his Dad’s old rusty... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
SelfMadeHero has become the first publisher to sell ebooks through BitTorrent Bundle, a peer-to-peer downloading network. The publisher is selling Jörg Tittel and John Aggs' graphic novel Ricky Rouse has a Gun in PDF, CBR and CBZ formats, priced at $5 (£3.36). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Next year's International Publishers Congress will be held in London, it was announced on the closing day of the Bangkok event today (26th March). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
The potential fragility of new bookstore ventures was driven home when two-year-old Granada Books in Santa Barbara announced that it needs $50,000 to stay open. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
In what's being described as a "cooperative publishing arrangement," Down East and Dispatch, two regional titles serving the the state of Maine, have agreed to merge their sales teams to cross-sell the two brands. The post Regional Maine Titles Down East and Dispatch Merge Sales Teams appeared... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2015-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
UK publishers sold £2.2 billion of books in 2004, with ebooks accounting for nearly half UK fiction sales—though print in other categories proved resilient. The post Nielsen’s BookInsights: UK Publishers Sold £2.2 Billion in 2014 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon's position in the market is damaging progress in the book trade, according to the president of the Booksellers Association, Tim Walker. Speaking on a panel about publishing and technology at the Nielsen BookInsights conference yesterday (25th March), Walker said that Amazon's dominance... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
With "Downton Abbey" reviving interest in the period between the two world wars, the publishing arm of the British Library has been releasing new editions of forgotten classics published in Britain’s golden age of mystery (considered to span most of the 1920s and ’30s) since 2012. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
E-books’ market share of new-book sales increased slightly in 2014 over 2013, while the share of all book sales made through online retailers and bookstore chains dipped in the same period. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers offered a measured response to news that the Lifeway Christian Stores chain will no longer carry "heaven tourism" books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
New titles dominated the top spots on bestseller lists across international markets last month. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]