Quadrille has signed a series of cookery titles for 2015 and 2016, including a book from "Great British Bake Off" finalist Richard Burr and new books from Michelin starred chef Nathan Outlaw. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The highlights of the second morning of Digital Book World conference in New York yesterday (15th January) came from HarperCollins c.e.o. Brian Murray discussing his company and the future, and Nielsen’s Jonathan Nowell talking about how print sales have changed in the US. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Harry Potter fan site Pottermore has appointed Anna Rafferty as director of product, creative and content. In her new job, reporting to c.e.o. Susan L Jurevics, Rafferty will "head up a dedicated team to ensure that Pottermore’s product, content, creative and technology continue to develop and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Myriad has appointed Louisa Pritchard to head up its international rights, taking over from Adrian Weston. Pritchard is the founder of LPA, which sells international rights on behalf of agencies and publishers. She previously worked as head of rights at PFD, foreign rights director at Orion and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Single-app products will struggle to survive in children’s publishing in 2015 and the industry should shift its focus to online communities and cross-platform content, digital experts in the trade have warned. Sara O’Connor, digital fiction director at Hot Key Books, said many apps will “die... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
A good book is all you ever used to need on the beach but data-use figures show we're still reaching for our cellphones even when we're on holiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2015-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Luxembourg provided “state aid” to Amazon through its tax arrangements for the company, the European Commission has said in a preliminary finding. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Saqi Books is to press on with its English-language publishing programme, following a strategic review which saw it lose six members of staff. Publisher Lynn Gaspard is now the only remaining staff member, with the others leaving between April and October last year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
After signing a book deal with Faber in December, YouTube blogger Louise Pentland, also known as Sprinkle of Glitter, has signed a second deal with Simon & Schuster UK. Abigail Bergstrom, commissioning editor of non-fiction at S&S, bought world rights to a “glitzy and personal”... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oneworld has signed a debut novel set in the behind-the-scenes world of New York's restaurants. Sweetbitter, by Stephanie Danler, follows Tess, who arrives in New York and soon finds herself working at one the city's landmark restaurants. While learning to enjoy the food and other substances... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
US book trade publication Publishers Weekly is to run a special section next week as a tribute to freedom of expression following the terrorist attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in France, in which 12 people died. The magazine’s owner, George Slowik Jr, said it was jumping “fully into the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
English PEN is holding a weekly vigil outside the Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in London in support of activist and blogger Raif Badawi. Badawi was convicted in May 2014 for insulting Islam and founding a liberal website. He received a fine of one million riyals (£175,000) and a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the latest episode of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy the panel discusses the Kickstarter campaign to fund Queers Destroy Science Fiction!, a special issue of Lightspeed magazine written by queer creators. The post Crowdfunded Magazine Celebrates Queer Science Fiction appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2015-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Last year the book trade “rekindled its love affair with the physical book”, Pan Macmillan’s m.d Anthony Forbes Watson has told The Bookseller. “Previous years have all been about growing ebook sales, but in 2014, in a market where ebook sales were plateauing, suddenly it was all about forward... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and BC Partners have reached an agreement to merge Springer Science+Business Media (owned by funds advised by BCP) with the majority of Holtzbrinck-owned Macmillan Science and Education, namely Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan and the global businesses of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
This week: an unreliable narrator and her missing daughter, a crime novel that's like watching a slow-motion train wreck, and a biography of PTSD. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Crime writer Ruth Rendell has suffered a serious stroke and is in a "critical but stable" condition in hospital. In a statement released on behalf of her family, her publisher Penguin Random House said Rendell had the stroke on Wednesday 7th January. “She is in hospital under expert care in a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
An estimated 1,500 book industry players gathered in New York on January 13–15 for the 2015 Digital Book World Conference and Expo, where talk about Amazon, ebook subscriptions, the growth of the Apple iBooks store, and the rise of self-publishing dominated the conversation. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hundreds of Britons queue overnight to buy first copies of satirical weekly to be published since last week’s Paris attacks• Charlie Hebdo ‘survivors’ issue reviewedHundreds of people queued for hours outside newsagents and bookshops across the UK to buy copies of the first issue of Charlie... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Switzerland-based open access publisher Frontiers has launched a social network for academics which - uniquely, it says - integrates into third-party websites. The network, named Loop, is said to have been inspired by the principles of open science on which Frontiers was established, by a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]