Advocates for Internet sales taxes, which include both the American Booksellers Association and Amazon, sent a letter urging Congress to act. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Well, that was anticlimactic. Online retail titan Amazon and the publisher Hachette have been sniping at each other for months because they couldn't see eye to eye on how much ebooks should cost (and how much revenue Amazon should get off of them).... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2014-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
In a rare move for the publishing world, Land Rover has sponsored "An Ice Cream War" novelist William Boyd's new short fiction and turned it in into a gorgeous interactive campaign. The post Land Rover commissions novelist William Boyd’s latest appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2014-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fiona Allen has been appointed as the new communications director for HarperCollins Publishers UK, following Susanna Frayn’s decision to step down after 13 years with the company. Allen worked for Waterstones for eight years, most recently as head of brand communications, and will start her new... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Novelist Ali Smith has won the Goldsmiths Prize, awarded for "boldly original" fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon.com has won a private auction for the right to run the .book domain name, according to Domain Name Wire. The e-commerce giant beat off competition from eight other companies who applied for the domain name, including Google and Bowker, according to the report. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
One of publishing's nastiest, most high-profile conflicts, the monthslong standoff between Amazon.com and Hachette Book Group, is ending. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2014-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Thousands of fans filled the streets of Charleston, S.C., for the fourth annual YALLFest, held November 7–8. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon has launched three Kindle e-readers and the Kindle ebook store in Holland. The e-commerce giant launched its Dutch ebook arm today (12th November), offering customers 20,000 Dutch ebooks alongside 3million books in other languages, reports Dutch news outlet NU. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon and Hachette Book Group USA have reached a new, multi-year agreement for ebook and print sales in the U.S. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Stanfords bookshops have reduced their losses over the last year, with the company said to be “on target” to return to profit this financial year. The two travel bookshops, based in London’s Covent Garden and Bristol, achieved sales of £5.7m in the year to 31st March 2014, an increase of 0.15%... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Two graduates of Hawaii's Iolani School, Matt Sullivan and Landen Buckley, have taken on the photo book market with their StoryTree Inc. app SimplePrints. Unlike online photo services such as Shutterfly and Snapfish, SimplePrints was designed for mobile devices to make photo books, clearing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2014-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
'The Dark Wild' by Piers Torday has won the 2014 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, announced Thursday evening in London. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Self-publishing has made it clear that “readers want very different things to what publishers in London and Manhattan think readers want”, Orna Ross of the Alliance of Independent Authors has said. Speaking at an event debating the best route to publishing for authors, Ross said... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jeff Kinney's newest Wimpy Kid title has débuted at number one, knocking David Walliams' Awful Auntie from the top of the UK Official Top 50 after a run of six consecutive weeks. The Long Haul (Puffin), the ninth of Kinney's books featuring hapless middle schooler Greg Heffley, sold 59,315... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hodder & Stoughton has said it is not publishing a book by controversial TV "comedian" Dapper Laughs, describing listings for the book on Amazon and its own site as being “mistakenly fed out”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
The plane crash death of Myles Munroe, prominent minister and prolific author, has saddened his publishers and readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Sharjah International Book Fair is focused on forging cultural connections and fighting Muslim extremism through books. The post Sharjah: A Book Fair Focused on Cultural Connections appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Matthew Cashmore, digital director at Blackwell’s, will leave the company in January to become a priest. Cashmore joined Blackwell’s as digital director in November 2012 after a two-year stint as digital development director at Hachette. At Blackwell's he was tasked with “integrating physical... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
UPDATE: This morning's crash of Google's DoubleClick ad server took down ads for more than 55,185 websites, equivalent to 315 ad network outages, according to data from online monitoring firm Dynatrace. Around 9 a.m. this morning, Google's DoubleClick ad server, which powers advertising for... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2014-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]