A week-long showcase of academic book excellence, Academic Book Week, is to run in the UK in November. The event, scheduled for 9th-16th November, is being co-ordinated as part of the Academic Book of the Future Project and has the backing of the Booksellers Association and the Publishers... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Getting control of distribution, leveraging your strengths and keeping your team on target. The post 6 Things B2B Publishers Should Worry About In 2015 (Part 2) appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2015-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Following a record-breaking opening weekend for the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' film, which raked in in $81.7 million, the books in E.L. James's series also ruled Apple's bestseller list. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
S&S UK has seen a "challenging year" which has not been helped by a number of staffing changes, its c.e.o Ian Chapman has told The Bookseller. The c.e.o and publisher of S&S UK and International was speaking following the release of S&S's global results by its parent company CBS on... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nick Hornby’s adaptation of Nina Stibbe’s prize-winning Love, Nina (Penguin) will be shown as a five-part drama on BBC One. The Bookseller revealed in November last year that Hornby was adapting the book, which won the Non-fiction Book of the Year award at the Specsavers National Book Awards... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Citing the need to develop a new approach to the U.S. market, the U.K. publisher Faber and Faber Ltd. has ended its affiliation with Farrar, Straus and Giroux that created the U.S.-based Faber and Faber Inc. imprint. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is investigating whether Lincolnshire County Council is providing a “comprehensive and efficient” library service. The investigation – a preliminary step to enable the Culture Secretary Sajid Javid to decide whether a local inquiry is necessary -... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Waterstones is to sell a special limited-edition run of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s forthcoming novel, Dancing in the Dark (Harvill Secker). The book, the fourth instalment in Knausgaard’s My Struggle series, will also be promoted with national press adverts, a targeted online pre-order ad campaign,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Open Road Intergrated Media has unveiled a new imprint called Factory Books that will feature memoir, biography and cultural criticism about Andy Warhol's New York City-based studio, The Factory. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
At Addicting Info Nathaniel Downes makes the case that Fifty Shades of Grey is based on 'a flagrant violation of copyright laws.' The post Fifty Shades of Copyright Infringement? appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Four bookshops have made the shortlist for the Best Small Shops Competition. Booka bookshop in Oswestry, Main Street Trading Company in St Boswells, the Book Nook in Hove and Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights in Bath (pictured) have all made the shortlist of the best 20 small shops in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Voltaire’s Treatise on Tolerance is a bestseller again in France 200 years after its publication as people try to understand the Charlie Hebdo murders. The post In the Wake of Tragedy: Voltaire Hits the French Bestseller Lists appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Waterstones has passionate booksellers who are “handselling again”, breaking début novelists and “building careers”, according to publishers. Chief executives and sales directors of publishing houses have spoken to The Bookseller following the release of the chain retailer’s annual results (to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new Friday night BBC2 TV arts show, "Artsnight", and a season of poetry-focused programming on BBC4, including a profile of poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, are in the pipeline. Details of the new arts programming have been revealed ahead of a “major new partnership announcement between the BBC... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Waterstones has relaunched its website after several months in the planning, to create a “simpler and more pleasurable experience” for customers to shop online. The company took its website offline earlier and re-launched it this afternoon (16th February) with a new look and feel, featuring... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publisher Deborah Emin argues that as publishing professionals, we should want writers to understand each stage of the process: how they are acquired, marketed and sold. The post Why Writers Need to Know the Publishing Business appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Monocle magazine is putting audio, accompanied by native advertising, at the heart of its digital publishing plan. The post Why Monocle is betting big on digital radio appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Digital publishers don’t get much more international than The Huffington Post. Its editor-in-chief, Arianna Huffington, is Greek-American, CEO Jimmy Maymann is Danish, and its chief technical officer, Otto Toth, is Hungarian. Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
If you use the free edition of Microsoft OneNote 2013 for Windows, Microsoft has some good news for you. In a blog post published Friday, Microsoft’s OneNote Team announced that it had lifted the feature restrictions that previously applied to the freebie version of Microsoft’s venerable... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2015-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author of Fever Pitch is adapting a book of the same name based on the memoirs of Nina Stibble, a nanny who worked for some of London’s leading literary lightsThe author of Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby, is penning his first TV drama, based on the memoirs of a nanny who worked for some of the leading... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]