If squabbles over format, pricing and Amazon have led the US publishing industry to neglect an ever more diverse audience, we have forgotten why people read books in the first placeThe true price of publishingAt the recent National Book Awards ceremony in New York City, presenter and bestselling... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
By David Saabye Sometimes it's the little ideas that make a big difference. Magazine publishers have focused on many "big" ideas in recent decades, which have manifested in such projects as News Corp.'s The Daily... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Executive | 2014-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Poetry, Young Adult titles and a Booker Prize winning author feature on the list of books to be given away during World Book Night 2015. Special editions of the 20 titles will all be given away by thousands of volunteers, who can now begin applying to take part in the annual event on 23rd April... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Bay Area Book Festival, set for June 6-7, is launching an Indiegogo campaign to raise $50,000 to support their first festival in Berkeley. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
W H Smith (WHS) is increasing its focus on book distribution to its stores in a bid to make cost savings. The company’s book buyers have been working within its new “books operating model”, which involves more focused targeting of big titles to key stores, which will be a priority going... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
By Ron Epstein In late 2012, I purchased a small, local publishing company. The marquee property was a magazine called L.A. Parent that distributed approximately 70,000 free copies every month, along with other... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Executive | 2014-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins imprint William Collins has signed three books, including a memoir, by broadcaster Jeremy Paxman. The first book, provisonally titled The Way We Live Now, will look at the past 50 years of British history and its impact on our current lives. The second book will be a memoir... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amy Julia Becker’s first book told how Penny, who has Down syndrome, became her first-born daughter. In her newest, Becker writes about all of her three children and shows how they don’t define Penny by her Down syndrome. ‘It’s just something she has.’ Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lynda La Plante's Prime Suspect and Karl Pilkington's The Moaning of Life are among books to be given away on World Book Night next year. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2014-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Actor Stanley Tucci and literary agent Felicity Blunt have written a cookbook. The couple’s book features recipes from Tucci’s traditional Italian roots, as well as those of his British wife Blunt, who is an agent at Curtis Brown. Recipes include pasta alla bottarga, mushroom-stuffed trout,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent booksellers and WH Smith feature on an “alternative” shopping guide for Christmas created by campaign group Amazon Anonymous. The group has teamed up with Ethical Consumer to create an alternative shopping guide for those who have signed up to its “Amazon Free Challenge” – in which... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Time Inc., the nation's the largest magazine publisher, is losing one of its top business-side execs to The Washington Post. The executive, Jed Hartman, who is group publisher of news and business at Time Inc., is joining the Post as its chief revenue officer.The departure costs Time Inc. an... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Susanna Einstein and Meg Thompson of the Einstein Thompson Agency have announced that the two agents will be parting ways, in a decision that was, according to the pair, mutual and amicable Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The owner of the award-winning Catarina Marina bookstore discusses the day-to-day struggle of selling books to children in Mexico. The post Mexican Kids Bookseller Tells of Struggle for Survival appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
At least 85 New York Times employees applied for voluntary buyouts by yesterday's deadline, falling short of the number the newspaper publisher said was needed to avoid firings, according to a union representative.Grant Glickson, the chairman of the New York Times unit of the Newspaper Guild of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Chronicle Books completed its third annual #GiveBooks campaign over the Thanksgiving weekend. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Unpublished author Tara Guha has won the 2014 Luke Bitmead Writer's Bursary, winning £2,500 and a publishing contract with Legend Press. Guha won the bursary for her debut novel Absent, which will now be published in November 2015. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Evan Schnittman, who joined Hachette Book Group in 2012 in the newly created role of chief marketing and sales officer, will leave the publisher December 12. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
With an appeal date approaching, attorneys for Apple and the DoJ traded fire over whether Judge Denise Cote improperly weighed the evidence presented to her. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
A New York City blogger hosted dinner parties throughout the U.S., in hopes to raise money for her self-published, debut cookbook. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]