'American Sniper,' the memoir by the former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, ousted Laura Hillenbrand’s 'Unbroken' from the top spot on Apple’s iBooks bestseller list, for the week ended January 12. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
In response to the Charlie Hebdo attacl, the International Alliance of Independent Publishers has issued a statement of support for freedom of expression The post International Alliance of Independent Publishers on Charlie Hebdo appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster has made two appointments to its editorial team in Canada, while confirming the departure of two other staff members. Nita Pronovost will now be joining the Canada operation as editorial director from her position as senior editor at Doubleday where she built “an impressive... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House division Cornerstone is to take over trade publication of titles crowd-funded by start-up Unbound, after the two companies agreed a joint venture deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Carol Evans is leaving Working Mother Media after helping to lead the company for more than 35 years. Evans grew WMM from a single magazine—Working Mother, launched in 1978—into a magazine, website, events producer and research institute, along with two companion associations. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bestselling author David Walliams has written an exclusive picture book for Comic Relief. The Queen’s Orang-Utan will be published byHarperCollins Children’s Books on the 26th February, ahead of Red Nose Day on the 13th March, for £4.99. All of the profits, which will amount to at least £3 from... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Knock another major publisher off the list of holdouts for ebook subscription services. Oyster announced Tuesday morning that it had reached an agreement with Macmillan to bring 1,000 titles from the publisher and its imprints to Oyster's Netflix-like offering.UPDATE: After this article was... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Man Booker Prize has made significant tweaks to its rules for 2015, abandoning its former rule on the availability of print books following the longlist announcement, placing time limits on the eligibility of titles published outside the UK, and defining the term "publisher" more closely. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jill Colbert has been appointed as the interim chief executive of CILIP, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, following the departure of Annie Mauger from the role. Mauger leaves the body at the end of January to take up the role of director of national business... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
New figures from Nielsen BookScan show continuing decline since 2009 as more and more readers migrate to ebooksPrint sales of adult fiction have declined by over £150m since 2009, new figures show, as ebooks take an increasingly large bite out of the market.A review of 2014 from book sales... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 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 ]
Raymond Briggs’ children’s book to be remade as four-part series featuring mix of animation and live action that will be centrepiece of channel’s Christmas 2015 scheduleFungus the Bogeyman is to be brought to back to life by Sky in a four-part adaptation of the Raymond Briggs children’s book.The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Madeline McIntosh has implemented a wide-ranging restructuring of the division. Among the changes, Brian Tart is being given the reins at Viking, succeeding Clare Ferraro, who is leaving the company. Additionally, the Hudson Street Press and Gotham Books imprints are being folded. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The future of digital publishing is increasingly borrowing from the long history of newspapers' political cartoons. The post Digital publishers turn to cartoons to cover the news appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Through the award, five schools in Britain and Ireland will receive funds for their libraries. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
A diverse collection of industry blogs previously owned by Mediabistro today has been integrated into Adweek.com as the new Adweek Blog Network. Purchased by Adweek's parent company in 2014, the sites largely will remain the same in content and structure. Most visibly, their Web addresses will... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
How good are you at sizing someone up? Perhaps not as good as a computer, according to researchers at the University of Cambridge and Stanford University.By analyzing someone’s likes on Facebook, statistical modeling software could characterize a person’s basic personality with an accuracy... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Led by hits from David Walliams, Jeff Kinney and Egmont’s Minecraft stable, the UK children’s market hit an all-time high in revenue and market share in 2014, and exceeded sales of Adult Fiction for the first time since accurate records began. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Buzzfeed, HuffPo, Mashable and Vice have all set up in the U.K. Agencies weigh in on their collective impact. The post Why British publishers don’t sweat new US competition appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
A call to nonviolent action with examples from history; stories of the quest for grace. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]