Ihar Lohvinau, who won the International Publishers Association's Freedom to Publish Prize 2014 earlier this year, is to face judgement and sentencing in January, charged with selling books from his Belarus bookshop without state registration. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Monitor book critic recalls seven of his favorite author interviews from 2014. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-12-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Novelists Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes and Deborah Moggach and the former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion are among the signatories to a letter calling on the next government to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill people. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Condé Nast on Monday won a federal judge's preliminary approval to pay $5.85 million to settle a class-action lawsuit by thousands of former interns who claimed the magazine publisher underpaid them. Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2014-12-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
It feels like we've all been talking a lot about content marketing for the last two years, even though the concept isn't really new. We just used to call ads that looked like content "advertorials," but what we're seeing today is a lot more than that.What has changed, and in dramatic fashion, is... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-12-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Book Aid International sent more than a million books to African libraries in 2014, almost doubling their distribution figures for 2013. The charity, which works in partnership with library services in Africa to distribute new books and learning resources, celebrated its 60th anniversary... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Children’s book author Robert San Souci, known for his retellings of folktales and myths, died suddenly on December 19 at his San Francisco home. He was 68. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Chanda Hahn grabs top honors on this month’s list of the bestselling titles published on the Smashwords platform with the YA novel 'Reign.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fueled by new ad formats and acquisitions from Facebook, Twitter and brands, mobile marketing finally began to step up to its potential this year. From messaging and video to ultra-targeted ads and simplified shopping, smartphones and tablets became a major focus for most digital brands players... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2014-12-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Following the Christmas Day premiere of the big screen adaptation of Laura Hillenbrand’s 'Unbroken,' the 2010 bestseller held firm in the #1 spot on Apple’s bestseller list (the film came in at #3 at the weekend box office). Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Best books, bestsellers, and the most-anticipated new titles—here are the 10 most popular stories on publishersweekly.com in 2014. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Announced earlier this month and officially on sale today, Melville House's edition of the document known as the Senate Torture Report, is going back to press. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bestselling titles including the Christmas number one Guinness World Records 2015 (GWR), as well as Jessie Burton’s The Miniaturist (Picador) and Robert Galbraith’s The Silkworm (Little, Brown) are being sold at a discount of up to 85% by retailers online, while The Book People is offering some... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
I’m a nostalgic at heart. I have a hard time letting go of things. My wife would probably describe it as low-level hoarding. That may be true. Stashed throughout our apartment are an impressive array of retro sneakers, old hip-hop magazines, comic books, CDs, and stickers. It all harkens back a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2014-12-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Two January books address the topic of the words we use and their effect on those who hear them, for good or ill. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
It’s a long way from inception to completion, unless you’re artist and programmer Cory Arcangel, and your book is made up of other people’s tweets about writing a bookThe Inception Button should be used sparingly but when called for, it can be highly effective. Located at inception.davepedu.com,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-12-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
It's sobering to think of carrying on into next year the weight of all the unread books on one's nightstand. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-12-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Books for children and young adults are top of the league, bagging seven of this year’s top 10, but non-fiction has endured another annus horribilisSee the chart in fullAt long last, kids ruled in 2014. Books aimed at them have often figured in the top 10 of the all-year sales chart for printed... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-12-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barnes & Noble is to buy back the stake Pearson acquired in its Nook Media business for $27.7m in cash and stock, ahead of a split of the business in 2015, the Wall Street Journal has reported. The split follows that of B&N and Microsoft earlier this month. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
German literary powerhouse Suhrkamp and its publisher Ulla Unseld-Berkéwic who also owns 61% of the company, have been handed an early Christmas gift by the three judges of the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe. By dismissing an injunction by minority owner Hans Barlach they have allowed... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-24 00:00:00 UTC ]