Peter Booth Wiley, chairman of the board of John Wiley & Sons, plans to retire as chair at the end of his current term in September 2015. Matthew S. Kissner has been recommended to succeed him. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
In her annual year-end letter Simon & Schuster CEO Carolyn Reidy thanked employees for contributing to an editorial program that produced a “plethora” of award-winning books in 2014. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury Publishing has completed its purchase of Osprey Publishing for 4.6 million pounds. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jessie Burton's debut novel The Miniaturist comes top of a public vote to be named Specsavers Book of the Year. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2014-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
A trio of international publishing sales executives reflect on the different attitudes toward book pricing across the world, wondering what the future holds. The post Publishing Sales Execs Consider the Future of Book Pricing appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Robb McDaniels, founder and CEO of INgrooves Music Group, and who oversaw the launch of the company's ebook division, INscribe Digital, will step down at the end of 2014. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Girls are quick to romanticise anti-heroes, says Harry Potter author, as she shares her vision for the future of the boy wizard’s school enemyJK Rowling says that “girls are very apt to romanticise” the antihero, and reveals that she had been forced to pour “cold common sense” on the startling... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Martin Clarke is a busy man. He serves as both editor-in-chief and publisher of DailyMail.com, while splitting his time between London and New York, with regular trips to Sydney thrown in. Last week marked a significant milestone in the celebr ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2014-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House pledging to donate up to 10,000 more books for posts and tweets using the #GiveaBook hashtag through December 24. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Jeffrey Stayton, whose first book is being published this February, recently sponsored a competition to select six independent bookstores as recipients of $250 grants. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Martha Ashby has been promoted to editor of commercial women's fiction at HarperCollins. Ashby started at the publisher in 2012 as assistant editor, after five years at Orion, including three in non-fiction. She has worked with authors including Cecelia Ahern and Beatriz Williams, and in 2013... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon has launched a one-hour new delivery service in selected areas of Manhattan, New York, today (19th December), which it plans to expand in 2015. The service, called Prime Now, promises to deliver in one hour a range of more than 25,000 daily essentials, such as “paper towels, shampoo,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the latest episode of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy, writer Naomi Klein discusses dystopian fiction and her new capitalism-vs.-the-climate nonfiction book This Changes Everything. The post Dystopian Fiction’s Popularity Is a Warning Sign for the Future appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2014-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Like all magazine publishers, associations took a big hit five years ago. Coupled with rapidly evolving consumer habits and an ad community far less reliant on print, association publishers find themselves in a time of change. They've survived, but it hasn't been easy. Creativity, cost cutting... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2014-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Here are this week's 10 most intriguing numbers from the digital marketing space, including data about what's currently on the minds of brand marketers and a few eyebrow-raising social media stats. 1. Facebook's video spigot has apparently opened dramatically in recent weeks. In September, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2014-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins UK saw huge growth in profits for the year ended June 30th 2014, despite a fall in turnover for the company. The company's annual results have also revealed that former c.e.o. Victoria Barnsley received £1.39m when she left the company. Turnover at the publisher fell on the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Alison Morrison, nee Brathwaite, who worked in book publishing until a move to Which? in 2007, has died. Morrison, 45, was reportedly attacked in a street in Harrow yesterday (18th December), dying later in hospital. Morrison worked as promotions co-ordinator at Penguin from 1994 to 1999, and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent publisher Galley Beggar Press will launch a new short story list in 2015 to help lesser-known writers, for whom “getting a collection out there is still something of a battle”. Galley Beggar Press co-founder Eloise Millar told The Bookseller that “publishers have an obligation to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Booksellers have reported positive sales going into the final week of the Christmas rush, with Chris Hadfield’s You Are Here (Macmillan) breaking through as a last-minute favourite. However the leading celebrity memoirs are not racking up individual totals as substantial as they did last year,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Booksellers Association has called for the scrapping of business rates altogether for small businesses in a meeting in the House of Commons. Tim Godfray, c.e.o of The Booksellers Association, said in a speech to the all-party parliamentary small shops group that The BA and the British... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]