Although the economics of operating an independent bookstore have improved since the end of the Great Recession, running a new store still poses challenges. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Spare me your hipster hand-wringing: the only thing new about ‘true crime’ stories is that the people who normally feel themselves above it are now tuning inEveryone wants to think that they are above the baser things in life – special snowflakes who consume the products of Sunday-night HBO and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House UK is to launch a multi-million pound Penguin-branded consumer website in the second half of this year, but chief executive Tom Weldon reiterated the company's view that it had no plans to become a retailer, claiming that it would be "quicker for PRH to burn the money". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Three topics that publishers have been dealing with in recent years--technology, data, and free speech--were addressed in a series of lively presentations at the Association of American Publishers’ annual meeting. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Japan’s Rakuten, Inc. has agreed to acquire the U.S. digital distributor OverDrive for $410 million in cash. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Japan's Rakuten, parent company of ebookseller Kobo, has purchased US ebook distributor OverDrive, likely blocking Kindle's further expansion into libraries. The post Rakuten Buys E-book Distributor OverDrive for $410 Million appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
A coalition of publishers and education and industry groups has called on the U.S. Congress to support dedicated school library funding. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
'Writing translated from other languages makes you see things differently,' says UK translator Daniel Hahn who will mine the Bologna Book Fair for gems. The post Why Reading Translated Kids’ Books Makes a Difference appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
USA TODAY announced Wednesday that it will offer buyout packages to veteran employees to trim staffing, its latest effort to cut costs and invest more in digital products amid a plan by parent company Gannett to spin off the publishing business as a ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
[Sponsored Content] Love it or hate it, native advertising is making a solid impact in the publishing world. It won’t be long before your advertisers will expect you to have a policy on whether or not you embrace it. The post Making the Decision About Native Advertising appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2015-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon Publishing has expanded into France, internally hiring Clément Monjou, formerly of its Kindle and Appstore units. The development of Amazon Publishing Europe has already seen the e-commerce giant set up publishing arms in the UK and Germany, while it has also advertised for positions in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bath-based Parragon is expanding its Disney franchise, including books based on the Frozen and Disney Princess brands, into North America. “Parragon has been offering Disney content through their publishing programs in many international territories, but to date our presence in North America... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The bestselling young adult author wrote her first published novel on a BlackBerry while commuting. Now she has a fan base ardent enough to complain about the way she ended one bookLauren Oliver, a bestselling young adult writer whose latest book, Vanishing Girls, was published in the US last... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
It has become a rite of passage for new authors in the digital age to obsessively check Amazon to track book sales and tweet positive reviews in the hopes of picking up new readers. But for one author, whose book was on the New York Times best-sellers list for three weeks, this isn’t possible.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2015-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Newsflash! Sequel to Girl Online by Zoe Sugg is on its wayIt was the highest selling book for any debut author – selling a whopping 78,109 copies in its first week - and now Zoe Sugg’s Girl Online is getting a sequel. At the moment we don’t know much about “Girl Online 2” apart from the fact... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series is putting the finishing touches on An Unlikely Story, a general bookstore that he is building from the ground up. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The husband of the late children’s illustrator Penny Dann is to run the Brighton Marathon to raise money for the hospice which helped care for her. Dann, who had been suffering from cancer, died in December. She illustrated anthologies, early readers, fairytales and poetry collections, and was... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Gallic Books has acquired a new novel by French writer Muriel Barbery, author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
World Book Day titles continue to dominate the Official UK Top 50 with nine of the 10 titles published as part of the annual charity celebrations claiming positions within the Top 10 this week. The 10 ￡1 titles sold 224,433 combined copies in the seven days ending 14th March. This was down 34%... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Viking has acquired an “incredible debut work of fiction” by an Australian writer. Publisher Mary Mount bought world rights, excluding Australia New Zealand, to Abigail Ulman’s Hot Little Hands from Peter Straus at Rogers, Coleridge and White. Mount said: “Abigail Ulman’s work is tender,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]