Persona is one of the latest fashion magazines in Tokyo. It’s printed on heavy stock paper and is full of photos of models and clothing. The only thing missing is text.You “read” Persona with a smartphone camera.An app recognizes the images, queries a cloud database and then downloads related... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2014-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 2014 National Book Awards were presented Wednesday evening at a ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in Lower Manhattan. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Robert Darden is both a scholar and an evangelist of black gospel music, seeking to preserve it through archival work and to write its history. His new book illuminates how spirituals carried messages not only of hope for the next world but freedom in this one. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The new consumer website will feature contributions from Scribner authors and editors, as well as from other Simon & Schuster imprints. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
B&N is returning to the downloadable audiobook business with the release of a new nook app for Android devices that offers access to 50,000 audiobook titles. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jeff Kinney's The Long Haul (Puffin) has retained its spot on the UK Official Top 50 for the second straight week by posting the best weekly sale of 2014, and in the process becoming the fastest selling book of the year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Regional newspaper publishers pool ad space to compete with tech companies such as Facebook, Microsoft and Google Continue reading... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Buyer beware: Ad analytics platform Pixalate says fraudulent ad networks are increasingly joining open, real-time-bidding (RTB) marketplaces and then selling brands fake space on premium sites like YouTube, The Weather Channel and Yahoo. While the victims think their messages will appear on the... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2014-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Thomas King won in the fiction category for 'The Back of the Turtle' (HarperCollins Canada), his first novel in 15 years. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
"Stop making Facebook the center of your relationship marketing efforts," says Nate Elliott, VP and principal analyst at Forrester.Today market research firm Forrester published a report for brands titled "Social Relationship Strategies That Work."Read Full Story Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2014-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fourth Estate will publish a new novel by Jonathan Franzen next year, titled Purity. The HarperCollins imprint confirmed it would publish simultaneously with US publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux, which plans to release Purity in September next year. Nicholas Pearson, publishing director at... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
A memoir about brain surgery is among 20 books shortlisted for this year's Costa Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2014-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nosy Crow is to create a new in-house sales and marketing department, appointing Catherine Stokes as head of sales and marketing. Since 2011 Nosy Crow has outsourced its selling to Bounce Sales and Marketing, but from the beginning of 2015, the children’s publisher will create an in-house sales... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 45th annual Bouchercon World Mystery Convention, an event for crime fiction fans and authors, washed up on the shores of Long Beach, Calif., drawing more than 1,600 people. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Headline has acquired six novels by bestselling historian Alison Weir. Publishing director Mari Evans bought UK and Commonwealth rights to the books from Julian Alexander at Lucas Alexander Whitley. Weir’s non-fiction publishing will continue with Penguin Random House’s Jonathan Cape. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bravo exec Andy Cohen, host of the network’s 'Watch What Happens: Live,' hit the #1 spot on Apple’s iBooks bestseller list with his memoir, 'The Andy Cohen Diaries.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin's storied non-fiction brand is trying to redefine the book cover, as well as bridge the gap between physical books and ebooks.The covers of our favorite books are doors that lead into their internal literary worlds, and that's enough to make their designs important: a book's cover is the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2014-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Time Inc., the nation's largest magazine publisher, has struck a deal making Outbrain the exclusive external provider of recommended stories for Time Inc.'s websites, including Time.com and People.com. Until now, Time Inc. had worked with a mix of the companies whose ubiquitous... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Running Press and HBO are teaming up on multiple books and mini kits inspired by the premium channel's series, 'Game of Thrones.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Angry Robot has signed a six-figure deal for three more novels by Wesley Chu. The deal is the biggest that the sci-fi publisher has done. World English rights to the the new series, beginning with The Rise of Io, were signed from agent Russell Galen, Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]