Amazon’s purchase of the .book generic top-level domain (TLD) has prompted speculation about how the e-tailer plans to use it. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, children & teens, and more for the week ended November 9, 2014. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Zed Books title about contemporary Thailand has been officially banned by the Royal Thai police following newspaper reviews. Thai officials have ruled that stockists and distributors of Andrew MacGregor Marshall’s A Kingdom in Crisis could face three years imprisonment and a 60,000 baht... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Every weekday, we bring you the Ad Age/iSpot Hot Spots, new and trending TV commercials tracked by iSpot.tv, a company that catalogs, tags and measures activity around TV ads in real time. The New Releases here ran on TV for the first time yesterday. The Most Engaging ads are showing sustained... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
As the holiday season approaches, several cities are getting in the book spirit with book fairs, including Miami and New Orleans. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Moritz Loew, VP-sales and marketing at Time Inc. and a key architect of Time.com's ambitious redesign this year, is leaving the company, Ad Age has learned. His last day is Friday.A veteran of the digital media world, Mr. Loew led U.S. ad sales for Time magazine in both print and digital. Jed... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Get Ready for Nerf vs. Jenga: The MovieAccording to a report from Deadline.com, DreamWorks Animation, the studio behind such franchises as Shrek and Madagascar, is in talks to shake things up with a pair of moves: a merger with Hasbro and bringing Hearst Publishing into the fold on an online... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2014-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Man Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan and distinguished novelists Haruki Murakami and Michael Cunningham are among the authors whose books are in contention for the 22nd Bad Sex in Fiction Award. The prize awards the “most egregious passage of sexual description in a work of fiction”, and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The author of The Gruffalo earned more than JK Rowling and Dan Brown in UK, making her the fourth biggest-selling writer in British historyA dancing chorus of giants and snails, witches and Gruffalos have propelled Julia Donaldson into uncharted territory, as the former childrens laureate... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
I get it -- you own a tablet and don't think you need a dedicated e-ink based e-reader. While I respect your opinion, I must tell you that it is wrong. Sure, reading a book on a back-lit LCD display is passable, but hardly a good experience. Not only can this be fatiguing to your eyes, but most... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2014-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Forget deep frying, James Beard Award-winning author Michael Ruhlman takes it back to the basics with his recipe for Thanksgiving Turkey, from his newest book, 'Ruhlman's How to Roast.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette UK saw physical sales fall 7.4% year-on-year in the third quarter, “due to a less promising publishing schedule in general literature”, according to parent company Lagardere. However “ebooks still showed sustained growth, with 34% of net sales in adult trade vs. 31% at the end of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
This week, the world's first digital weapon, and an ongoing investigation of men. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Six months after Amazon's purchase of Comixology, new patterns are emerging in the digital comics marketplace. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
TIME launched its digital archive, "The Vault," on Wednesday, but it's not the only magazine to look to its past for new content, more inventory and increased value for subscribers. Through bundles, tiered subscription models or one-off purchases, titles are able t Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2014-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
PBS will live-stream three days of events from this month's Miami Book Fair. Will it become appointment viewing for the mass market? The post Will the Miami Book Fair Become Must-See TV? appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Piers Torday has won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award 2014. Torday won the award for The Dark Wild (Quercus), a story about 12-year-old Kester and his adventures amongst some of the last wild animals in the land. The animals believe the time is right to rise up against their human enemies... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The book, not yet titled, is slated for publication in the winter of 2015 or 2016. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette Book Group (HBG) and Amazon have reached a new agreement on ebook and print sales in the US following a very public battle for public opinion. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
After months of bitter fighting, Hachette and Amazon announced on Thursday morning that they have settled their differences and reached a new multi-year agreement for ebook and print book sales. The post Amazon Resolves Dispute With Top-Five Publisher Hachette Over Book Sales appeared first on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2014-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]