With the case now back at the district court, the three publisher plaintiffs are seeking to introduce new evidence to determine whether the university’s e-reserve policies are infringing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Laura Macdougall has joined literary management company and arts consultancy Tibor Jones & Associates after five years at Hodder & Stoughton. In her new role, Macdougall will be creating her own list of authors while working closely with Kevin Conroy Scott on the management of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
For those attending the 52nd annual Bologna Children’s Book Fair, held from March 30 to April 2, there’s plenty happening, in addition to the usual round of rights appointments. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The regional shortlists and winners of The Bookseller Industry Awards’ Independent Bookshop of the Year category, sponsored by Gardners Books, have been praised by the judging committee for their “creativity, passion and [for] demonstrating the very best the sector has to offer”. The judges —... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Riders can stop playing Angry Birds and download something a bit more enriching.On the subway in Beijing, as in most cities with underground Wi-Fi connections, commuters usually spend their rides mindlessly staring at their phones, scrolling through emails or playing games. But now riders on one... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The fate of national languages when English has become the world’s dominant “universal” language. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Positioning-based in-store marketing is something more commonly found in Walmart and Apple stores than in bookstores. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
For those attending the 52nd annual Bologna Children’s Book Fair, there’s plenty happening in addition to the usual round of rights appointments. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Since the first title in Phyllis Good’s Fix-It and Forget-It series was published in 2000, the cookbooks, which collect accessible slow-cooker recipes, have sold more than 11 million copies. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sphere has bought a psychological thriller titled Painkiller by Private Eye staff writer N J Fountain. Cath Burke, fiction publisher at Sphere, bought UK and Commonwealth rights to the novel in a deal brokered by Piers Blofeld at Sheil Land Associates. Painkiller tells the story of a once... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mobile makes up the lion's share of U.K. traffic for Mail Online, but mobile visitors arriving on its homepage are still see the desktop site. That's an increasingly rare sight in news publishing today. "Mail Online's homepage is a key part of its heritage and identity. Our users love it," said... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Time Inc., the nation's largest magazine publisher, is close to naming former TV executive Rich Battista to lead the company's largest brand, People magazine, as well as its sibling publication Entertainment Weekly, according to two people familiar with the matter.The position -- president of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
At The Irwaddy, U San OO, owner of Seikku Cho Cho publishing house spoke about the development of Burmese publishing, translations and ebooks in the country. The post Post-Censorship, Publishing Continues to Evolve in Burma appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Waterstones shops should be "significantly more entrepreneurial than they are at the moment", James Daunt has said. Speaking on a panel at the IPG spring conference about chain bookshops, alongside Blackwell's David Prescott, Daunt said that the "point at which we become more confident in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent publishers shouldn't underestimate the threat of "game-changer" Penguin Random House, Hardie Grant founder and chief executive Sandy Grant told the IPG spring conference in a keynote speech this morning (5th March). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barnes & Noble Education is counting on growth in a number of digital initiatives, as well as taking over the operation of more college stores, to improve operating results. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
One-hundred and twenty one in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps and games released for Windows in the past seven days. If you are interested in the development of Windows 10, you may be interested in screenshot leaks of build 10031 and build 10022 which allow you to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The real-time lyrics feature that Spotify added to its desktop app this past week hasn’t impressed the U.S. karaoke industry. Joseph C Vangieri, the CEO of DigiTrax, has called it “unfair competition for us American ‘Karaoke’ companies.”Lest you think that he has a beef with Spotify, know that... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Andy Robb founded the UKYA Blogger Awards to salute all the teen and YA book bloggers who work so hard, for nothing but free books and the odd signature, to tell the world about the books they love, here’s whyOur guide to becoming a book bloggerTop 10 teen/YA book bloggers by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins Children’s Books has acquired a YA trilogy from Derek Landy, the author of the Skuldugerry Pleasant series. The first book, Demon Road, is about a 16-year-old teenager called Amber and her friend Milo who undertake an epic road trip, encountering killer cars, vampires, undead... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]