Trends, milestones, roundups, and recipes—here are PW's top 10 cookbook stories of 2014. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookstores are taking stock and re-evaluating their offerings during the new year, new you season. Some like SF Vanni, the first Italian bookstore in the U.S., are returning as a pop-up. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Peláez, author of 'The Cuban Table: A Celebration of Food, Flavors, and History,' talks about what might happen to Cuban cuisine after the embargo is lifted. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
E-book subscription service Scribd has secured $22 million in financing led by Khosla Ventures and including new funds from existing investors. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
A book club started by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has already had almost 140,000 "likes". Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2015-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Facebook founder, who has over 30 million followers, has launched a new book club as part of a challenge to himself, for 2015, to read a new book every two weeks. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
It's going to be tough for Mark Zuckerberg to break his New Year's resolution this year. He's got more than 130,000 people to keep him accountable. The post Mark Zuckerberg’s New Year’s Resolution: Start a Worldwide Book Club appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2015-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Janklow & Nesbit literary agent Rebecca Carter discusses how independent publishers specializing in translation are changing the market for the better. The post New Ways of Publishing Translations appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
EF Labs takes a colorful page from children's book illustrations for its employee manual.The company employee manual: Just saying those words is enough to lull you into a boredom-induced coma. And the idea of actually reading the content within—likely drier than the paper it's printed on—is... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2015-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Guardian looks back on 2014 from the perspective of a long list of British publishers, asking, what books made their year? The post UK Publishers Discuss Favorite Books of 2014 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former Little, Brown editor-in-chief Geoff Shandler will be overseeing the nonfiction side of a new line featuring nonfiction and literary fiction under HC's William Morrow division. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins is to pulp copies of an English-language atlas which omitted Israel. The Collins Middle East Atlas, created for the Middle East market, showed Jordan and Syria extending to the Mediterranean. It marked the position of the West Bank, but did not show Israel. In a statement on its... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
E-booksellers and publishers appear to have cushioned the impact of the VAT price rise on ebooks at least for now, according to a survey of ebooks by The Bookseller. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Parragon Books has posted an operating profit of £19.4m in 2014 compared to a loss of £6m the year before, thanks to a company restructure earlier in the year. For the year ending the 31st March 2014, turnover fell 14% to £48m from £56m but “the overall improvement in profitability was due to a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Microsoft's history books will undoubtedly remember 2014 as the year of Satya Nadella. But Steve Ballmer, his predecessor, is the one reaping the majority of the benefits of the new CEO's popularity. Sure, Nadella hit a $90 million jackpot when we took the top job at the world's second most... Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2015-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
I’m worried it will cost too much and don’t know what cover price to chargeEvery week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it’s up to you to help him or her out – a selection of the best answers will appear in next Saturday’s paper.This week’s question Continue reading... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) and other business groups are to meet the Treasury this month to discuss concerns over the government’s proposed review of business rates, according to the Telegraph. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Reedsy is a self-publishing startup that currently offers its users access to a marketplace of skilled freelance book-production professionals. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Led by John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, the top of the 2014 print bestseller list was dominated by children’s and young adult titles that sold more than one million copies. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google executives believe the company’s ebook program is on the right course, after some early missteps, as it enters its fifth year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-02 00:00:00 UTC ]