Random House Children's Books has acquired Now I’m Reading! a step-by-step series that guides beginning readers through to independent reading. The post Random House Kids Acquires Now I’m Reading! Platform appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Journalist Shawn Vestal was recently named the winner of this year's PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for his debut collection, 'Godforsaken Idaho.' We talked to Vestal about winning the prize, and his experience publishing the book with Amazon. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 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 ]
Rob Bell and Kristen Bell reflect on the meaning of marriage; Gerard Russell explains little-understood religious dynamics in the Middle East. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 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 ]
Scientist and broadcaster Professor Mark Miodownik has won the £25,000 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books with Stuff Matters (Viking). Miodownik was announced as the winner at a ceremony held at the Royal Society last night (10th November), hosted by anatomist and broadcaster... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former New Yorker writer signs a book deal in the same week New Republic plagiarist Stephen Glass may have been forgiven by colleagues Continue reading... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House UK chair Gail Rebuck has used her maiden speech in the House of Lords to champion greater literacy for the “most marginalised and excluded women in our society”, saying the literate woman is “a potentially empowered woman”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century has triumphed at the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Awards. Piketty's book, a nearly 700-page exploration of economic processes that concentrate wealth and build inequalities, was chosen as the winner of the £30,000... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Newly formed production company Monumental Pictures has acquired the film rights to Caitlin Moran’s novel How to Build a Girl (Ebury Press). Moran and John Niven will adapt the book for the big screen, with Film 4 backing the project. Moran’s debut novel follows teenager Johanna Morrigan, who... 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 ]
Nominations for small publishers awards are closing; more awards and honors; new app brings the liturgy to Catholics on their phones; 100,000 have joined Max Lucado's Prayer Challenge. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Sharjah Book Fair may seem to indulge foreign visitors with excessive perks, but it's all for the good and growth of the Emirate. The post Why is Sharjah Investing So Much its Book Fair? appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers of spiritual or religious gift books face unique challenges in a complicated business. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barnes & Noble has created B&N Sync Up, a program that will allow customers to buy selected paperbacks and receive the digital edition for $4.99. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 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 ]
Security firm AVG has published a new report looking at online privacy which shows the considerable amount of regret admitted by some teenagers when it comes to things they have posted online -- and the fact that seven in ten teens don’t know everyone they have befriended on social media. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 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 ]
Ray Tindle, the newspaper publisher who likes to reward his staff, is to pay a "chairman's bonus" to his company's 700 staff ahead of Christmas. At the top level, full-time employees will get £400 each. The minimum pay ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2014-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tanya Burr is the latest YouTuber to sign a publishing deal, with Penguin the publisher. Burr, the founder of Tanya Burr Cosmetics, has some 2.6m subscribers to her beauty and lifestyle channel. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]