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 ]
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 ]
The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, children & teens, and more for the week ended February 1, 2015. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 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 ]
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 ]
Former PEN American Center director of finance and administration to replace Eleanor Chang next month. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Little free libraries are sprouting up all over the world. However, some US cities are using their zoning codes to shut down these neighborly ventures. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 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 ]
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 ]
Roger Tagholm imagines how other characters from fiction would react to the news that Harper Lee is giving Scout Finch a second chance at life. The post How Are Famous Fictional Characters Reacting to Scout’s Return? appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 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 ]
With the addition of 59 new store members to the ABA last year—the most since 2008—this has been a good week for booksellers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Although radical Islam dominates the headlines, it represents only a tiny fraction of the world’s estimated 1.6 billion Muslims. That deep global diversity figures into several forthcoming titles. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Healthy eating advocate and blogger Ella Woodward has claimed the number one spot on the Official UK Top 50 this week. Deliciously Ella (Yellow Kite) sold 32,144 copies in the week ending the 31st January and is the highest first week sales figure for a debut food and drink writer since Nielsen... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Agent reveals plan for abandoned third novel and dismisses manipulation claims as ‘nonsense’Harper Lee’s agent revealed on Thursday that To Kill a Mockingbird was originally intended to be the first of a three-book series, and described as “total nonsense” claims that the 88-year-old author was... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Program focuses on multiplatform strategy, while the association tries to graduate 'magazines' to 'media.' The post MPA’s AMMC Looks to Redefine the Magazine Industry appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2015-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pan Macmillan has acquired a book about sensitive children for six figures in a “fiercely contested auction”. Carole Tonkinson bought The Orchid and the Dandelion: Why Some Children Thrive and Others Struggle to Survive by Dr Tom Boyce for her Bluebird imprint in a "competitive 12-way bid" from... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
In all, 10,637attended, the lowest attendance since 2012, when 9,929 gathered in Dallas. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hot Key Books has acquired a new standalone fiction title from Carnegie Medal winning author Jennifer Donnelly in a six-figure pre-empt deal. Junior editor at Hot Key Books, Naomi Colthurst, struck a deal for UK and Commonwealth rights to These Shallow Graves through Cecilia de la Campa,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]