A strong performance from HarperCollins and the acquisition of Harlequin has boosted parent company News Corp's quarterly results. Revenue for publisher's worldwide operation for the second quarter of the financial year, covering the three months to December 31st 2014, increased 20% from $391m... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
When many Latinas were growing up, their parents talked to them about everything—except sex. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lucky magazine, the women's shopping title that was once a blockbuster success for Conde Nast, laid off about 10 staff members this week. One person with knowledge of the matter said nearly 15 employees were let go. A Lucky spokeswoman, however, put the number at "less than 10."The spokeswoman... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2015-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
News Corp. continues to tout the strength of its legacy newspaper business even though most of the company's growth now stems from expansions in the real estate and book publishing markets. Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Launched in 2013, Novl is a community website that was set up to be a central location for the social media activities of authors at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Waterstones cut its losses in its last financial year with managing director James Daunt describing it as year of “significant progress” and insisting that the business was edging towards profitability. It is the second consecutive year of reduced losses at Waterstones under Daunt, and includes... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins will publish three children’s classics by Charlotte’s Web author E B White as ebooks for the first time this March. Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little, both written by White and illustrated by Garth Williams, will be published digitally along with The Trumpet of the Swan,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
In an oft-cited statistic, Chad Post, publisher of Open Letter Books at the University of Rochester and an outspoken advocate for books in translation, estimates that 3% of fiction and poetry books published in the U.S. are translations. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
With the big-screen adaptation of the first book in E.L. James’s trilogy set to hit theaters on Valentine’s Day, PW has a few key numbers on the Vintage movie tie-in, the book, the trilogy, and the forthcoming film. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
POD publisher and digital distributor Lantia will provide global print publication for two Paulo Coelho novellas, beating out his traditional publishers. The post Speed, Flexibility Wins Spain’s Lantia Two Coelho Titles appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Harper Lee has said she is “alive and kicking and happy as hell” with the reaction to her new book. Cornerstone division William Heinemann announced on Tuesday (3rd February) that it would publish Go Set a Watchman, a novel written by Lee before she penned To Kill a Mockingbird and featuring... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
You can't open this book—literally—until you make it clear you don't have any preconceived notions.I'll admit it: I definitely judge books by their covers. But this book might train those of us who are prone to snap judgments to become slightly better people. If you look at the book with... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2015-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House UK’s group commercial director, Nigel Waters, is to leave the business at Easter. The company is still working out where Waters’ team will report, and an announcement about some new roles and responsibilities is to follow in the coming weeks, PRH said. Ian Hudson, deputy... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Newspaper revenue in the UK, the US and Australia is down despite a rise in the company’s overall revenue thanks to book publishing and real estate divisionsDeclining sales, advertising and subscriptions hurt revenues at Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper business in the final quarter of last year, News... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new programme to encourage young people into becoming librarians has been launched today by the Society of Chief Librarians (SCL). The scheme is modelled on TeachFirst, which attracts people into teaching, and comes in the wake of the Sieghart report in the public library service, which urged... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
A work slowdown by longshoremen at West Coast ports, which has been going on since the summer, is reaching a critical point. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
We aslked Dazed Group, News U.K., Mashable and Monrif Group what they think about the ominous subject of ad blocking. The post European publishers assess the threat of ad blocking appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Harper Lee to publish second novel and more in this week's publishing news briefs. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Macmillan and Southbank Centre have teamed up to put on an immersive theatre production to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. As part of the Imagine Children’s Festival, sponsored The Book People, which takes place from Monday 9th February to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
To listen to the Audio Book Club discussion of Redeployment, click the arrow on the player below. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2015-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]