New York Magazine has just come out with an in-depth profile of the intensely private Honolulu resident Pierre Omidyar. It quickly gets beyond the basics—"the programmer who created eBay, is one of America's richest men, a 47-year-old philanthropist intent on giving away the fortune he made when... Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2014-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sophie Stericker, currently art director at Orchard Books, will next year take on the role of creative director of the newly formed Hachette Children’s Group (HCG). Hachette UK is to merge its three children’s businesses - Hachette Children’s Books, Orion Children’s Publishing and Little, Brown... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
In House of Robots, the first book of James Patterson’s new middle-grade series, Sammy, a fifth grader, is humiliated when his genius inventor mother insists that he bring her latest creation, a robot named E, to school. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scribd's ebook subscription service seems to be making some inroads on Amazon's turf, and now the company is looking to take a swipe at Audible's lunch. From today, subscribers will be able to access a library of 30,000 audiobook titles that include... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2014-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
In 1980, a relative unknown named Penelope Fitzgerald surprised the London literary establishment by getting shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for her second novel, The Bookshop. The author—61, recently widowed, mother of three, the author of two biographies as well as a previous novel—was an... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2014-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Knopf Kids’ gets Witch-y with Mather and more in this week's notable book deals. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
An anonymous user posted clips from the upcoming blockbuster on Google Drive in October.According to California federal court documents, Marvel is dealing with a leak. The comic book publisher turned movie studio is citing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in an attempt to subpoena Google for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2014-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The most dominant story in magazine media over the last decade-the decline in print as digital media surges-may be changing, according to an all-star panel of ad agency executives at a min breakfast Thursday. There was general consensus on the panel of four that the decline has stopped and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2014-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Big Hero 6 was created when Marvel's top brass was focused on X-Men. A decade later, Disney is bringing it back to life.When it was announced last year that the first-ever Marvel property that Disney Animation was going to tackle as a feature film was Big Hero 6, there was collective... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2014-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Germany’s TigerBooks Media is offering its free and easy-to-use tool for creating multimedia children’s books to users around the world. The post TigerCreate: Multimedia Kids’ Book Creation Tool Goes Global appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Library Campaign has termed the new report from the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee into the activities of Arts Council England a "damp squib". In the report, released yesterday (5th November), the CMS Committee criticised ACE for its bias in funding projects in the capital, but... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
My romance with Chicken Soup for the Soul began and ended with the adolescent iteration, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul, and it was fostered in part because I read it when I was not yet teenaged. There was so much in that book for a 10-year-old to love: the amazing celebrity contributors... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2014-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
London’s Slightly Foxed has been named Vintage Independent Bookshop of the Year for 2014, winning £1,000. The shop, in Gloucester Road SW7, impressed judges with its “brilliantly conceived events”, including a vintage wine and Vintage literature evening, and a phantom book group, where people... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kathy Stinson and Dušan Petričić's book 'The Man with the Violin' has won the C$30,000 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The reigning wisdom in book publishing is that an author’s marketing budget will match his or her advance. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Helen Macdonald has won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for H is For Hawk (Jonathan Cape), making it the first time a memoir has won the award. Macdonald was announced as the winner of the £20,000 prize last night (4th November) at a ceremony at the Royal Institute of British Architects... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The popularity of the digital subscription model continues to grow with the announcement that ebook subscription service Scribd will now offer unlimited access to more than 30,000 audiobooks. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sales at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s trade segment rose 1.5% in the third quarter of 2014 compared to the same period last year, rising to $46.5 million. Adjusted EBITDA , however, dropped 16.3% to $7.2 million. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins is shifting all nonfiction titles acquired by Harlequin for publication in August 2015 and beyond to the William Morrow list. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ebook readers reveal the most highlighted passages in Harry Potter, the Bible, Lord of the Rings and many more Its an odd sensation to be reading an ebook and to suddenly notice that thanks to the providers data-tracking software youre on a passage that other people have already highlighted. I... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]