Religion scholars met before Thanksgiving in San Diego to exchange ideas, find books for their courses, and stock their personal libraries. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pan Macmillan has bought a Finnish detective series, described as a “Nordic take on Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple”. Natasha Harding acquired world English rights to the books, to be called The Lavender Ladies Detective Agency in the UK, by Minna Lindgren from the Elina Ahlback Literary... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Claudia Renton’s book about the influential Wyndham sisters has been awarded this year’s £3,500 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize. Her win for Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power (Collins) was announced at the Biographers' Club dinner on Friday 21st November. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
South Korean ad company Cheil Worldwide has reached a deal to buy a stake in Iris Worldwide, a London-based international agency network that works with clients including Samsung, Reckitt Benckiser, Shell, Adidas, Barclaycard, Domino's and Diageo.The companies declined to disclose terms of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Orchard Books has acquired Thirteen Days of Midnight by debut YA author Leo Hunt. The book is about a boy called Luke Manchett who, when his father dies, acquires $6m and a collection of ghosts. The eight spirits want revenge for their enslavement by Manchett senior and Luke has just 13 days to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon has trebled its number of collection points for customers via a partnership with Royal Mail. The e-commerce giant revealed the link-up today ( 25th November), which has added an extra 10,500 collection points in post offices to its PickUp Location Programme in the UK, bringing its total... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
At World Books on Atlantic Boulevard, Lily Li picks up the phone to transact one of her first sales of the day. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2014-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon Publishing has released an essay by bestselling author Patricia Cornwell, which documents her investigation of Jack the Ripper for her 2002 title, 'Portrait of a Killer.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Big publishers are likely to feel a squeeze on their supermarket sales as a result of the sector experiencing a “once in a generation change”. Two of Britain’s biggest supermarkets, Tesco and Sainsbury’s, are also big retailers of books. Both retailers reported slumps in profits in their recent... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
The cookbook specialty retailer was one of the first independent, niche online bookstores. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sourcebooks has secured the rights to Nickelodeon's portfolio of properties for its Put Me in the Story personalized book platform. The first two titles are 'Dora's Birthday Surprise!' and 'Happy Birthday, SpongeBob!' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber Children’s is set to publish a cookbook and two children’s fiction titles from Sophie Thompson, actor and winner of this year’s Celebrity Masterchef. Commissioning editor Alice Swan said when she received a manuscript about a boy who could talk to animals, she didn’t realise who the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 'California' author has sold her sophomore novel, 'Woman No. 17,' to Lindsay Sagnette at Crown. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amber Caravéo, former editorial director at Orion Children’s Books, is launching a competition for unpublished writers at her new agency, with judges from Puffin, Orion and Macmillan Children’s Books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Wab Kinew will be the new host of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s annual battle-of-the-books competition, Canada Reads, replacing Jian Ghomeshi. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kate Atkinson, Nathan Filer and J K Rowling are among the 19 British authors competing for the €100,000 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The longlist for the prize, now in its 20th year and given annually for a novel written in English or translated into English, features titles... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Robert Levine, author of Free Ride, explores how copyright law is and is not serving authors and consumers in today's Internet-dominated marketplace. The post Why Copyright Needs to Be Defended appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Revenue at Books-A-Million rose 1.3%, to $101.2 million, compared to the third quarter last year, while the net loss stayed at $6.9 million. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
The recent news that musicians in Europe are making more from Spotify royalties than via iTunes is a big deal for all content producers. It may be a defining moment in the ongoing competition between subscription services and pay-as-you go digital downloads in the West. The same struggle is... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2014-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Indies First, in which authors appear at independent bookstores and sometimes work as booksellers, will be happening again this year on Small Business Saturday. Take a look at who's signed up. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]