Alice Lee was a key figure in Marja Mills's recent bestseller 'The Mockingbird Next Door.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
PW talked with a few authors whose published books originated in NaNoWriMo. Here's what it takes to succeed. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oxford University Press has partnered with Emerge Education, an "accelerator" for education technology start-ups. The Emerge Education accelerator programme aims to improve educational outcomes worldwide by supporting innovative solutions and ideas from start-up companies. It offers ed-tech... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Leahy has been appointed the chief financial officer of Cengage Learning with effect from 1st December. Based in Boston, Leahy will lead the company’s financial management team and all financial activity for Cengage Learning, and will report to the chief executive officer Michael Hansen as... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oyster, the ebook subscription service, is launching the 'Oyster Review,' an online literary journal that will publish original material on books and writing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
National Book Awards host Daniel Handler used Twitter to issue an apology for remarks he made about Jacqueline Woodson, who won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature award for her YA novel "Brown Girl Dreaming." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
The November 2014 selection of self-published book reviews from BlueInk Review includes paranormal fiction, young adult fiction, self-help and health. The post November 2014 Top Self-published Book Reviews from BlueInk Review appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Last year, various independent bookstores celebrated Cider Monday as a fun twist on the online retailing bonanza Cyber Monday. This year, some bookstores say they'll be bringing it back. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Premium programmatic is a hot concept, and it's catching on. The ad industry's top brands are embracing more automation for digital campaigns—Cadillac, Tory Burch, CBS—and publishers are too. Instead of open exchanges where low-quality advertisers compete for low-quality Web inventory, a more... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2014-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
A group of librarians have launched a new crowd-funded project called the Library A to Z, designed to promote the role of public libraries. More than 150 backers, as well sponsor the Library Campaign, backed the Library A to Z on crowd-funding site Kickstarter, raising more than £4,500, twice... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Macmillan’s UK and US divisions both won best picture book awards today (19th December) at the Chen Bochui International Children’s Awards in Shanghai, China. The awards took place on the eve of the Shanghai Children’s Book Fair (CCBF) 2014. It is the first year publishers outside China have... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Utilities developer Icecream Apps has released Icecream PDF Converter, a capable tool for converting a range of file formats to and from PDF. There are plenty of similar applications around, but what’s interesting here is most conversions are handled in the background by a bundled copy of Open... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2014-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Dubbed the “Indie Rock Stars” module, the program will launch with the participation of some 90 authors, and will include at least 18 New York Times bestselling books and more than 30 award-winning novels. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sam Missingham explains how HarperCollins UK's recent Virtual Sci-fi Festival leveraged new platforms to connect backlist authors with new readers. The post Virtual Sci-Fi Book Festival Makes Backlist Sexy Again appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Research has taught me three main weaknesses in this new way to issue books, but also revealed some less acknowledged strengthsAlmost any discussion of self-publishing seems to attract an immediate hostility quite unlike the amused tolerance that greets those who, say, exhibit their indifferent... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
The board of the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) is a “rather white, middle-class group, which does not reflect the diversity of the UK and our membership”, the chairman has said. Adam Singer, introducing ALCS’s annual report ahead of the group’s AGM next week, said that... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers are not taking a disproportionate amount of profit from book sales, Little, Brown’s c.e.o. Ursula Mackenzie has said, and it is important that they remain healthy. Speaking at a Society of Authors (SoA) panel on hybrid authors, Mackenzie defended publishers from criticism by audience... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Much-loved publisher of books for youngsters says it does not want ‘to be seen to be limiting children in any way’Ladybird, the iconic publisher of children’s books including the classic Peter and Jane reading scheme, has vowed to remove any “boy” or “girl” labels from its books because it... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
With The Pages Project, a designer of early ebooks revels in the inky, intimate musings from the margins of used books.Erik Schmitt's obsession with marginalia—handwritten scribbles or notes in the margins of books—began after he inherited a chunk of his grandfather's library. Handwritten in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2014-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Short story collection about soldiers struggling in cope with chaos of Iraq war takes top US literary prize, with Ursula K Le Guin honored for lifetime contribution• Redeployment by Phil Klay review – incendiary stories of warA US marines veteran, Phil Klay, has taken home America’s most... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]