Random House Children’s Books has acquired the Now I’m Reading! product line of books from innovativeKids, a toy and education company based in Norwalk, Ct. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faced with a difficult comparison to last year's third quarter, sales at Simon & Schuster fell 11% in the third period ended September 30, 2014, compared to the same period last year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-06 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 ]
Lara Jo Regan, author of 'Dogs in Cars' (Countryman Press, 9781581572797) will appear on NBC’s 'Today' on Friday, November 7. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Film rights to Greg Mitchell’s new work of nonfiction, tentatively titled 'The Tunnels: JFK vs. CBS & NBC,' have already sold to FilmNation Entertainment. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amber Kirk-Ford, the teenager behind the Mile Long Bookshelf blog , will now contribute articles to a Penguin Random House UK blog after winning a Future8 award for young digital talent. Kirk-Ford was the winner of the blogger category in the inaugural Future8 Awards, launched by teen... 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 ]
Man Booker-shortlisted Ali Smith, Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction winner Eimear McBride, and Costa Book of the Year winner Nathan Filer are among the authors vying at the Specsavers National Book Awards this year. Presented in association with high street campaign Books Are My Bag, the awards... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 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 ]
But he doesn't provide any figures to back up his positive claims about subscriber totalsThe Times "is delivering both volume and higher revenue per subscriber", says the News Corp chief executive and former Times editor Robert Thomson.He added: "Digital, which already accounts for nearly... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
This week in children's apps, a bestselling bedtime story comes to life, Little Critter learns about generosity, and The Cat in the Hat explores the weather. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Twenty years ago last month, a team of well-meaning designers, coders and magazine publishers inadvertently unleashed on an unsuspecting world one of the most misguided and destructive technologies of the Internet age: the web banner ad. If th ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
William Sieghart has said that the library service operates "dysfunctionally", and that he is "frightened and worried" for the future of the library network. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 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 ]
Foyles is a finalist in the Customer Innovation of the Year category at the Oracle Retail Week Awards. The retailer is shortlisted for its "digital shopping service" Foyles Book Search . Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins Canada president and c.e.o. David Kent will leave the company at the end of the year, as the publisher consolidates its north American functions. Canadian distribution will now be outsourced to US firm RR Donnelley, which will handle delivery of HC Canada titles from spring next year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Severn House Publishers has bought world English language rights to the first in a new crime series by Pauline Rowson, author of the DI Horton marine mystery crime series. The new book, titled Silent Running, centres around former Royal Marine Commando, Special Boat Services Officer, Art... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The rise of the Subscription Economy continues. Little more than a year after launching its all-you-can-read ebook service, the San Francisco startup Scribd has announced that the service now offers more than 30,000 audiobooks, including titles from big-name publishing houses HarperCollins and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The International Publishers Association has written a letter to Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, warning that the country’s new Intellectual Property law is an inadequate response to the threats posed by piracy. In the letter, IPA secretary general Jens Bammel said that IP crime was a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The subscription service is adding 30,000 recorded books to the half-million ebooks it already offers.Thirteen months ago, San Francisco startup Scribd launched a service which aims to do for books what Netflix does for movies and TV shows. It offers a large-but-not-utterly-comprehensive... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]