Cookery writer and television presenter Mary Berry will be Guest of Honour at The London Book Fair (LBF), officially opening the conference on Tuesday 14th April. Jacks Thomas, director of LBF, said: “What better way to celebrate LBF’s move to a much-loved and world-renowned new home than to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tom Rob Smith scores his first UK Top 50 number one with the paperback of his latest thriller, The Farm. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Physicians' Life—an upscale lifestyle title for doctors—will be launching in May. The magazine is backed by Slack Inc., a publisher that's noted for its professional medical media, not consumer titles. The post Medical Publisher Launches Lifestyle Magazine for Docs appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2015-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scottish bookshop Mainstreet Trading Company has been highly commended in the Britain's Best Small Shop competition. The shop, based in St Boswells, Roxburghshire, was highly commended by the judges, but lost out on the top accolade to Hunters of Helmsley, a deli in Helmsley, North... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Low advances, deep discounting and the problem of author earnings were on the agenda at a Trade Question Time discussion panel at the Scottish Book Trade conference in Edinburgh yesterday (24th February). A return to a limited Net Book Agreement and a cultural change in publishers' attitudes... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Swiss book industry is reeling under a double whammy of declining sales and the weak euro. The decision by the Swiss National Bank to abandon the euro cap on the Swiss franc in mid-January has led to a double-digit revaluation of the currency. The trade association Schweizer Buchhändler-und... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Wordpress is one of the most popular Web publishing platforms. The vast catalog of plugins is part of what makes Wordpress so powerful, but it can also be the Achilles heel. According to security researchers at Sucuri there are a million-plus Wordpress sites exposed to serious risk, thanks to a... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2015-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
India is a “vibrant market”, Hachette UK c.e.o. Tim Hely Hutchinson has said on a visit to the country. Talking to the Hindu Business Line newspaper, Hely Hutchinson spoke about the acquisition of cricketer Sachin Tendulkar’s book, and touched on the dispute between Hachette Book Group in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
As part of Digiday's Publishing Summit Europe, held in February in Monaco, Taboola hosted a town hall for publishers. At once excited and nervous about the industry's digital-first future, several dozen industry veterans weighed in on the challenges they face. Chief among them? How to manage... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jill Abramson, the former New York Times executive editor, has signed a rumoured $1m book deal – but readers hoping for a score-settling page turner may be disappointed, according to her publisher. Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
'Tidying Up,' which gives readers a one-time solution to de-cluttering their home, has been a mainstay on bestseller lists since its publication. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
University of Queensland Press denies author Gavin King’s allegation the book was rejected because Newman’s government axed the Premier’s Literary AwardsThe University of Queensland Press has rejected Campbell Newman’s proposed tell-all memoir.The book’s author, Gavin King, claimed UQP knocked... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
UNESCO has called the destruction of libraries and books in Mosul 'one of the most devastating acts of destruction of library collections in human history.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Lithuanian book market was hit by the global recession and remains small, but a coterie of publishers are forging ahead through diversification. The post Lithuania’s Book Trade “Impossible to Shoot Down” appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Acquisitions are getting done for very different reasons now than during the M&A heyday. The post Guess What? Magazine M&A Is Back. Here’s Why. appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2015-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Libraries in the Iraqi city of Mosul have been ransacked by Isis militants, with the central library destroyed using explosives. According to reports in the Independent, observers on the ground believe that more than 112,000 manuscripts and books have been destroyed, including several titles... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Wattpad, the online reading and writing community, has released After Dark, an app that offers its users a curated selection of romance and erotica. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury is to publish City of Fae by self-published author Pippa DaCosta on its digital imprint, Bloomsbury Spark. The ebook (£3.99) is a new adult urban fantasy about a character named Alina and what happens when the fae (fairy) high queen tries to claim London as her own. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, children & teens, and more for the week ended February 22, 2015. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
The future of platforms like Facebook and Twitter is like cable providers, and publishers will be like networks, publishing content directly on platforms -- and relying on the platforms, to a large extent, for monetization. Jon Steinberg, CEO of North America of Daily Mail, sees Snpachat... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]