Japanese bookseller Kinokuniya has implemented several innovative strategies to fight declining domestic sales, while still expanding at home and abroad. The post How Japan’s Kinokuniya Innovates, Fosters Growth appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-12-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
In 2015, the Frankfurt Book Fair will be staging The World Cookbook Fair, which promises to, according to the Frankfurt Book Fair, "bring the very best publishers and authors of the culinary sector." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
At Apple's appeal hearing Monday in its ebook price-fixing case, Second Circuit Judge Dennis Jacobs aggressively questioned DoJ attorney Malcolm Stewart, and repeatedly referred to Amazon as a "monopolist." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Curtis Brown Literary and Talent Agency will officially launch its digital publishing arm, Studio 28, in March next year. Studio 28 will publish in the UK and other territories, seeking rights from authors already on the agency’s books or “rediscovering and reinventing literary gems from 100... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Headline is to publish photographer Seth Casteel’s Underwater Babies. Deputy publishing director Sarah Emsley acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, for the book from Little, Brown US. Casteel’s previous books, also published in the UK by Headline, have captured images of dogs... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Profile Books has signed a "radical" book on the lives of animals by naturalist Charles Foster, who has attempted to live like the animals he studies. Being a Beast will recount Foster's experiences of emulating different animals, living like a badger in a hole in a Welsh hillside eating... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon Publishing plans to grow its list of UK titles and authors “substantially” in 2015, Eoin Purcell, UK head of Amazon Publishing, has told The Bookseller. The publisher is also “constantly looking to create new platforms to connect authors and readers”, Purcell said. Amazon Publishing UK,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Japan's 90-branch Kinokuniya book chain "would love to come to Europe if the opportunity arises", Hiroshi Sogo, m.d. of the company's e-commerce arm AsianBasis Corporation, told delegates at the Publishers Association's International Conference in London yesterday (11th December). Sogo was... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The main question we asked when compiling the second Books of the Year list, was: what are these sort of lists good for? Until last year, in its previous 155 years The Bookseller eschewed this kind of listing, partially because it was felt that, as the august Organ of the book trade, we were to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nearly 300 magazine media professionals gathered to celebrate industry achievements in editorial and design at FOLIO:'s 2014 Eddie & Ozzie Awards breakfast at The Yale Club in New York City on Thursday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2014-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury has signed a global deal for the next novel by William Boyd, titled Sweet Caress. Editor in chief Alexandra Pringle signed world English rights, excluding Canada, on behalf of Bloomsbury UK and US in a deal with Jonny Geller at Curtis Brown and Amanda Urban at ICM. The book will be... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kindle Unlimited has launched in France and Brazil, bringing to seven the number of countries where the service is available. In France, subscribers signing up by 10th January will pay 99 centimes for the first month and €9.99 a month from then on, with access initially to 20,000 titles in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Chef Gino D’Acampo is to write a vegetarian cookbook for Hodder & Stoughton. Gino’s Veg Italia! The Healthy Way to Eat Like an Italian will be D’Acampo’s first exclusively meat-free book. Lifestyle publisher Nicky Ross commissioned the title in a two-book deal with agent Jeremy Hicks of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
From till point ticklers to luxury titles that will blow the budget and books that will make the perfect gifts, The Bookseller’s Features and Insight team has curated a list of must-stock titles for this Christmas. Ranging from celebrity biographies and high-end picture books, to books in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google News will withdraw from Spain, after the government passed a law to charge aggregators for linking to news publishers. A tech lawyer answers the big questions Continue reading... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Since its launch in 1992, the New Press—a nonprofit publishing house—has proudly run an internship program “explicitly designed to diversify a notoriously monochromatic industry,” explains executive director Diane Wachtell. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
William Boyd has moved to Bloomsbury for his next novel. The British author, who was at HarperCollins, will release 'Sweet Caress' with his new publisher in September 2015. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
As the Christmas rush got underway, the US book market surged again last week with print volumes increasing by 26% week on week. Overall, just over 20m book sales registered through Nielsen BookScan in the seven days ending 7th December. Jeff Kinney's The Long Haul (Amulet), enjoys another... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Growing up in a small factory town in upstate New York, Kathy Belden had little interest in books until she moved to a new high school during her senior year and found herself in Mrs. Jerry’s English class. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the past five years, traditional publishing has seen tremendous innovation and reinvention, and, at the same time, more and more publishing-related opportunities can be found in the startup world than ever before. The skills necessary to succeed in today’s book business are changing at... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]