Transition continues among college stores at the start of the second semester. Beginning in May, UMass, Amherst students will be ordering and renting textbooks from Amazon. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writer and critic Bonnie Greer has been appointed to the board of The Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS). Greer will serve a one-year term as a non-executive director for the organisation. Among Greer’s aims are to help the new generation of writers to understand intellectual... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scholastic has taken over from OUP as distributor of the PM reading series by Cengage Learning. The PM reading series is used by schools across the world a to teach children to read. Under the terms of the deal, Scholastic will distribute the series in the UK and export markets in Europe, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, children & teens, and more for the week ended January 11, 2015. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
María Dolores Redondo’s novel Offering to the Storm debuted at #1 on Spain’s fiction bestseller list in December. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
A publishing group’s managing editor has said 90pc of revenue made by its flagship title comes from print. Tom Thomson, managing editor of the Herald & Times group, made the claim about Glasgow daily The Herald while speaki ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Digital-to-print launches like Allrecipes, POLITICO Magazine and The Pitchfork Review are becoming increasingly common, but it's rare when a brand that decided to abandon ink and paper returns to it. T.H.E. Journal, 1105 Media's magazine about K-12 education technology, is doing just that though. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 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 ]
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 ]
With their distinctive illustrations, Ladybird books offered millions of children their first taste of art. As a new exhibition opens, we pay homage to picnics, polyester and Pat the dog• A hundred years of Ladybird design – galleryA small boy in collar and tie teeters on homemade stilts made... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-01-16 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 ]
Foyles is to close its Westfield White City bookshop in 10 days’ time. The company has taken the decision to surrender its lease early to Westfield in London's White City (W12) to allow for the redesign and upgrade of the southwest part of the shopping centre and will close on Sunday 25th... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
"Blue Peter" will today (15th January) launch a competition to take three children into MI5 headquarters. Anthony Horowitz, author of the spy series Alex Rider (Walker Books), will help choose the winners. Children aged 8-14 can apply online to become CBBC Intelligence Officers as part of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Editors are predicting a continuing surge of debut fiction in 2015, following the success of authors like Jessie Burton and Elizabeth Healey, saying they are on the lookout for original voices and novels in translation, as well as strong homegrown talent. The trend for unreliable female... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michel Houllebecq’s latest novel Soumission (Submission) has gone straight to number one in France's bestseller lists, selling 120,000 copies in the week of 5th to 11th January. The novel, set in 2022 and featuring France with a Muslim president, leads the Top 20 GfK/ Livres Hebdo book sales... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Keith Moerer, Director of Apple's iBookstore, revealed that Apple's iBookstore is growing at a million users per month and has seen 1 billion downloads. The post Apple’s iBookstore Growing at One Million Users Per Month appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
In a major deal in the printing industry today, Quad/Graphics has reached an agreement to acquire Courier Corp. in a deal the companies valued at $260 million. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
After Alex Malarkey recanted his story about visiting heaven during a coma, the publisher plans to take "the book and all ancillary products out of print." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
At Hachette Book Group, Tom Maciag, executive v-p and chief financial officer, and Gerry Cummings, senior v-p for distribution, will be retiring in the coming months. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The UK’s Daily Mail reports that Oxford University Press has banned sausages and pigs from children’s books in an attempt “to avoid offence.” The post OUP Bans Pork from Children’s Books appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]