Faber has acquired a book by comedian Sara Pascoe, a feminist exploration of the female body. Editor Sarah Savitt signed world rights at auction to Animal: How a Woman is Made, from Dawn Sedgwick at Dawn Sedgwick Management. The book will be published in Spring 2016. Savitt said: "I have... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Nebraska Book Company reported that revenue for the third quarter rose 10.7% over the comparable period in 2013, citing higher textbook rentals for the improved results. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Authors have called for Public Lending Right (PLR) to be extended to all ebook loans from libraries. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Perennially popular authors such as Allan Ahlberg and multi-authored series such as Rainbow Magic top the charts of children’s books sold to libraries, according to Peters Books & Furniture. The library supplier revealed exclusive sales data to The Bookseller, which showed that the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
A former banker will become the new chairman of The Connect Group in May. The Connect Group, formerly Smiths News PLC, which owns Connect Books, formerly Bertrams, has hired Gary Kennedy [pictured] as chairman-designate and non-executive director from 1st May 2015. He replaces the current... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
[Sponsored Content] Boosting retention and revenue are on the front burner. The post Customer-Management Survey: Existing Business Is Top Priority for Publishers appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Twitter on Monday began giving publishers the ability to embed Twitter video on their sites, meaning YouTube and Facebook now have some new competition in the category. Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pan Macmillan has bought Collector’s Library for an undisclosed sum. Harriet Sanders, currently rights director at Pan Macmillan, has been appointed publisher of Collector’s Library, which will become an imprint within Pan Macmillan under adult books publisher Jeremy Trevathan. The three... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mills & Boon has seen a sharp rise in sales of its ebooks after Kobo matched W H Smith’s in-store offer online. W H Smith has been running a “five for the price of four” offer on Mills & Boon titles throughout February, and its digital partner Kobo applied the offer to the same titles’... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Can manga-style versions of classics like ‘Pride and Prejudice’ become the Cliffs Notes of a new generation of readers? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Native advertising was supposed to be marketers’ answer to banner blindness by creating ads that consumers would want to read and share. But by the time a native ad gets through all the necessary approvals and is shaped in a way that can sc ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
U.K. publishers are employing a number of tactics to garner Facebook traffic. Digiday spoke to five of the UK publishers in the top 10 to receive traffic from the social network -- and learned a few tricks. Having engineered its sites for mobile -- and consequently, social -- six of Trinity... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
South End Press, Boston-based press that folded last year, has struck a deal to have four of its stranded titles distributed by Duke University Press. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
It's never been easier to spread fake news online. Publishers, driven by publishing economics to publish faster, are playing fast and loose with the facts, readers are spreading information they though they could trust and Facebook, up until very recently, has taken a backseat to fixing things.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Granta Books has signed two books from New Yorker writer Wendell Steavenson. Laura Barber signed rights from Anna Webber at United Agents, on behalf of Bill Clegg at the Clegg Agency, following an auction. The two books are Three Days in Paris, an on-the-ground account of the Charlie Hebdo... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Yorkshire-based technology company Frog Education has acquired I Education, the owner of assessment tool I am Learning (IAL), in a deal worth more than £2m. Frog Education will integrate IAL, which is used in more than 1,000 schools, into its own services. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Veronica Roth, author of the 'Divergent' series, will release a two-book series in 2017 and 2018. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
The futuristic thriller 'Ballistic' by Adam Egypt Mortimer and Darrick Robertson is nonstop craziness and violence. It's also destined to be a classic. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
From snowy Great Barrington, Mass., in the Berkshire Mountains, bookseller Lauren Losaw talked about what she's been recommending to customers for fireside reading. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Plum Johnson has won the C$25,000 RBC Taylor Prize, one of Canada’s top literary awards for nonfiction for her memoir, 'They Left Us Everything.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]