In a predictably careful interview at New York's Digital Book World conference between DBW’s Mike Shatzkin and Michael Cader, and Amazon Kindle senior vice-president Russ Grandinetti, earlier today (Wednesday 14th January), the most important moment may have come when Shatzkin suggested that, in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
At Oxford University Press we have to balance children’s cultural and learning needs, while retaining some healthy common senseGiven that our editorial guidelines that reference pigs and pork have been in place for as long as I can remember, little did I imagine that they would attract... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon senior v-p Russ Grandinetti was genial and a bit elusive while fielding questions on author discontent and Amazon Publishing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon and Schuster and Harper both announced two new, but very different, direct-to-consumer sales initiatives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
For the first time, Facebook's Internet.org app has bundled free ebooks with its services, starting in Colombia with 24symbols. The post In Colombia, Facebook Partners with 24symbols for Free Books appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Martin Pistorius was believed to be in a 'vegetative state' for 12 years, only to wake up and inform his caretakers he had been conscious. His triumph over adversity is captured in his memoir. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
The joint venture will create a publishing group of 1.5 billion euros in sales, and 13,000 employees. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers are awash in data about readers' habits. Now: what to do with it all? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
NEW YORK, NY -- 14th January 2015: Justo Hidalgo, founder and chief development officer of Madrid-based 24symbols digital subscription reading service, has announced today during Digital Book World Conference + Expo that the company is in a partnership with Facebook for its Internet.org programme. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Booksellers have criticised the Man Booker Prize's change of stance on the print availability of longlisted titles as “disappointing”. However others have applauded the ruling, saying publishers must be able to set publication dates as they wish. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Macmillan US has become the third large publisher to enroll ebooks in the Oyster and Scribd subscription services. The publisher revealed it is adding 1,000 backlist titles to both platforms today (13th January), ranging from Janet Evanovich's Full House to The Language of Passion by Nobel... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The wider publishing industry – including book, journal, newspaper and magazine publishing - was worth more than £9.9bn to the UK economy in 2013, 3.2% up from the year before, according to newly released government statistics. The rise is slightly above the 2013 UK annual inflation rate of 2.5%. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
French bookshop in South Kensington has had more than 400 calls from people wanting a copy of the magazine, but has no idea how many will be delivered on FridayWhere can I buy a copy of Charlie Hebdo?Review: what’s inside the ‘survivors’ edition Continue reading... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Cartoonist and editor of the Charlie Hebdo magazine whose satire knew no bounds Continue reading... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
A television adaptation of Raymond Briggs’ Fungus the Bogeyman will be screened on Sky 1 next Christmas. Sky commissioned Imaginarium Studios, which will work in partnership with Double Negative's TV department, to make the series. The four 60-minute episodes will be written by Tom MacRae and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
For eight years, the journalist Roberto Saviano has faced constant threat of death for exposing the secrets of the Naples mafia in his book Gomorrah. Is the price of life under armed guard too much for a writer to pay?As a young writer growing up in Caserta, a suburb of Naples, I felt myself... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
As HarperCollins' integration of Harlequin moves forward, HC announced that it will be making Harlequin UK (HUK) a division of its U.K. business, while in North America it will align HC's and Harlequin's sales forces. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Murray Press imprint Two Roads has hired Kate Hewson as senior non-fiction editor. Two Roads’ editorial assistant Fede Andornino has also been promoted to assistant editor. Hewson, who will report to Two Roads’ publisher Lisa Highton, joins Two Roads on 2nd February from Icon, where she... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers Scholastic and Bloomsbury are re-releasing the series with full-color illustrations.Between author J.K. Rowling's fan hub experience Pottermore and a slew of fans bringing elements of Harry Potter's world to life (Marauder's Map, a seven-book saga in one), the boy who lived lives on,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2015-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
New Jersey's Clinton Book Shop is offering Match the Temperature Discount Days. Customers will receive a discount based on the day's temperature – for example, 20 degrees equals 20 percent off. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]