Consumer-facing book and author related content from Penguin Random House UK will move to Penguin’s social media channels from the end of today because it is the company’s “biggest brand on social media”. Corporate news for audiences such as the press, authors and agents will be shared on new... 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 ]
Protestors in Cardiff will use National Libraries Day this weekend to raise awareness of cuts facing the city's library service. Campaigners in Birmingham have already announced their own plans to protest on the day, forming a human chain "hugging" the threatened Library of Birmingham. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
TV networks are gearing up for their flashy upfront presentations, which represent the kick-off to negotiations with advertisers over fall prime-time programming.While some like Discovery are skipping the glitz altogether, others like Turner Broadcasting are combining their network presentations... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2015-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins will publish 2 million copies of "Go Set a Watchman," a novel Harper Lee wrote in the 1950s and then “put aside.” It will come out on July 14. The post HarperCollins to Publish 2m Copies of New Harper Lee Novel appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sales of adult trade books fell 7.8% in November compared to November 2013, while sales in the children/young adult segment rose 14.1%, according to AAP’s StatShot statistics program. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Vogue takes home top honors. The post The 2015 National Magazine Award Winners appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2015-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sales of the Harry Potter series and Jamie Oliver's cookbooks help Britain produce more books per capita than any other country. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2015-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Collins Learning will publish a new a series of maths textbooks for use in UK schools, Shanghai Maths, based on the system used in China. Last autumn, schools minister Nick Gibb controversially criticised UK education publishers for their textbook offer and urged them to emulate the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Thad McIlroy offers some statistics and key data on smartphones and tablets to help book publishers figure out how to address mobile technology. The post The Mobile Story for Publishers: Told in Key Stats appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publisher Harper announced Tuesday that "Go Set a Watchman," a novel the Pulitzer Prize-winning author completed in the 1950s and put aside, will be released July 14. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Paula Hawkins’s debut thriller, rose from #2 to hit the top of Apple’s iBooks bestseller list for the week ended February 2. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
A few days into Snapchat Discover, we checked in on how publishers are approaching the feature. The post How top publishers are using Snapchat appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, will publish a sequel called Go Set a Watchman. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2015-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The car industry isn't slowing down when it comes to employing more data for everything from vehicle malfunctions to marketing. In fact, in terms of digital advertising, the category looks like it's putting the pedal to the metal, as tech vendors, publishers and other players increasingly roll... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2015-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Historian Antony Beevor [pictured] has said the Imperial War Museums (IWM) are "completely right" to introduce charges for researchers, but first world war historian Dr Jonathan Boff of the University of Birmingham has warned it could negatively impact academic research. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bono, Colm Tóibín, Paul McCartney and Salman Rushdie are among the big names contributing to an anthology about sons and fathers, as part of a joint venture between Hutchinson and The Irish Hospice Foundation. Jason Arthur, publisher of Hutchinson, Heinemann and Windmill, agreed a joint-venture... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Milan Kundera's first novel in 12 years will be published in English this June. Faber will release The Festival of Insignificance, translated from the French by Linda Asher, on 18th June. C.e.o. and publisher Stephen Page acquired UK and Commonwealth rights in the novel in a deal with Sarah... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House is to use the Penguin brand for its consumer activity across social media, The Bookseller has learned. From the end of tomorrow (4th February), the various Penguin social media channels will carry news about "books and authors”, with corporate news to be shared on Penguin... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The MPA hosted its annual American Magazine Media Conference in New York this week and closed the show with “A View From The Top.” The post Does ‘Magazine Media’ Actually Redefine The Industry? appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2015-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]