November bookstore sales fell 2.5%, to $736 million from $755 million in November 2013, according to preliminary estimates released Wednesday morning by the U.S. Census Bureau. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
'The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture,' which was released as a paperback and ebook by publisher Melville House, is getting a second printing of 10,000 copies. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
ReedPOP, which organizes the New York Comic Con, has acquired Emerald City Comicon, a fast growing pop culture convention based in Seattle, Washington. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
National Book Award winner Jonathan Franzen will appear at the 2015 BookExpo show on May 27, kicking off the event. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Guidelines for writers have come to light telling them to avoid mention of anything which might offend overseas marketsStringent guidelines from educational publishers, that warn textbook authors off touching on topics from pork to horoscopes to avoid offending students in other countries, have... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Catholic publishers elect new board members; Barbour author honored twice; Lucado’s latest is Family’s Book of the Year; Zondervan author on four-city tour; IVP a Best Workplace for Sixth Year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 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 ]
Curtain walls get kid-friendly. Here's a conundrum for overeager design-loving parents everywhere: How do you explain to a seven-year-old the wonders of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye or Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building? How do you make a pre-teen see the beauty of the built world, and the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 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 ]
Penguin Publishing Group in the US is to shut two of its non-fiction imprints, and bring two further imprints under one leadership structure, as part of a reorganisation which includes two staff departures. Madeline McIntosh, president of the Penguin Publishing Group, told staff about the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The University of British Columbia Library has acquired two rare, 19th-century novels that scholars believe may have been written by Oscar Wilde. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Waterstones has confirmed the tragic death of one of its "much-loved" booksellers, Margaret Sheridan, after an incident at its Blackpool shop yesterday (12th January). The company paid tribute to Sheridan, 68, from Singleton, who died at the scene after being hit by a falling Waterstones sign.... 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 ]
The Huffington Post is the latest publisher to give readers more personalized content on article pages. The post How HuffPo woos Facebook hoppers with personalization appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Waterstones is in exclusive talks to buy Blinkbox books, The Bookseller understands. Tesco is in exclusive talks with one buyer, thought to be Waterstones, with a deal expected to be finalised by the end of this week. The bookseller urgently needs a digital app-based proposition to rival... 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 ]
Michel Houellebecq has said that "even an inattentive reading" of his latest novel Submission would show it was not Islamophobic, and that he has changed his views on the religion since the 2001 interview in which he called it the most stupid one in the world. The novelist made the comments in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
David Harsent has won the T S Eliot Prize for his collection Fire Songs, published by Faber. It is the the poet's first win, after being five times shortlisted for the prize. Harsent beat nine other poets to secure the prize, include three previous winners, John Burnside, Michael Longley and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
On Tuesday, Scribd and Oyster both announced partnerships with Macmillan to bring new titles to their ebook subscription services. But how do all-you-can read platforms benefit publishers? The post Publishers Are Lining Up Behind ‘Netflix for Books’ Services. But Why? appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Telegraph Media Group confirms Clissitt will not be joining Bloomberg as Grazia editor-in-chief lands deputy editor job with focus on lifestyle contentBen Clissitt is staying with Telegraph Media Group and Grazia’s Jane Bruton is taking a senior editorial role in the publisher’s latest... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]