Blloon, a new ebook subscription service aimed at kids, has launched in the U.K. Its Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins has acquired North American rights to Patrick Ness’s 'The Rest of Us Just Live Here,' a YA novel due out in fall 2015, and a second, stand-alone novel. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Little Tiger has acquired The First Slodge, the new picture book by author Jeanne Willis and illustrator Jenni Desmond. “We constantly look to diversify the Little Tiger list, and create surprising and inspiring picture books,” said publisher Jude Evans. “Jeanne’s text for The First Slodge... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
'Marley,' a memoir by John Grogan about owning an ill-behaved but lovable dog, was adapted into a movie starring Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
A tug of war between Google and German publishers over how online news content is displayed in search results has ended in surrender (for now) for the publishers — who have grudgingly agreed the search giant can display snippets of their co ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2014-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Just weeks after the Financial Times said it would begin selling digital ads based on the time for which they're exposed to readers, a new survey shows other digital publishers are growing bullish about the tactic. The survey, from Digital Content Next, found that 80% of "premium" publishers are... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Liverpool University Press is launching a new series of poetry books that celebrate risk-taking, called Pavilion Poetry. Pavilion Poetry, which will be edited by poetry professor Deryn Rees-Jones, aims to seek out and publish all that is daring and relevant in contemporary poetry. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Floris Books has acquired two separate children’s titles from author Cathy MacPhail and her son David MacPhail. Senior commissioning editor Eleanor Collins approached Cathy early in 2013 for a Scottish young teen novel while, independently, David submitted an outline for a series of Viking... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
German publishers said they are bowing to Google’s market power, and will allow the search engine powerhouse to show news snippets in search results free of charge, at least for the time being.The decision is a step in an ongoing legal dispute between the publishers and Google. Publishers are... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2014-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
As this past week has shown, it's good to be Tom Hardy. Not only is his reboot of the Mad Max franchise coming out next year, but he's currently linked to no fewer than three comic book franchises from three different studios. This week's superhero movie news isn't all about Mr. Hardy, however.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2014-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Finland was a hugely successful Guest of Honor country at the Frankfurt Book Fair, prompting more than 7,500 news articles and numerous rights deals. The post Finland, Very Cool: “A Huge Success” in Frankfurt appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook and Twitter are losing their communities to the big social networks. Here's how they're trying to get them back. The post Publishers cool on outsourcing community to Facebook appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2014-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Guardian Faber has acquired a non-fiction book covering the experience of the Greenpeace protestors who endured two months in a Russian prison. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Murphy started at St. Martin's as a publicity associate, rising to v-p, director of publicity. In May, he was named v-p, publishing strategy. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Welcome to the 2014 FOLIO: 100 and 20 in Their 20s, our annual list of the magazine and media industry's innovators, entrepreneurial thinkers and disrupters. As it does each year, the list represents every facet of publishing from every corner of the industry—big and small publishers in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2014-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Keshini Naidoo, formerly commissioning editor at Avon, has joined digital publisher Bookouture as senior commissioning editor and has already acquired four books from debut novelist Angela Marsons. Naidoo is taking on particular responsibility for the crime and thriller list. Her first... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jesse Finkelstein and Trena White of Page Two, a publishing services firm in Canada reflect on what they've learned in their first year in business. The post How Publishing Traditions Inform Innovation appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Icon Books has signed a book from the anonymous Guardian columnist behind 'The Vintage Years'. The author of the column, who was known in the newspaper only as 'The Invisible Woman', was revealed last year as Helen Walmsley-Johnson, a former PA for the Guardian's editor Alan Rusbridger, who... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Watch the live stream video from Books in Browsers 2014, a summit for developers and designers working in the book publishing industry. The post Books in Browsers V: Live Stream Video appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nature Publishing Group and Palgrave Macmillan have made public data taken from an Author Insights survey questioning over 30,000 of their authors. The data – compiled last spring - has been made available publicly for the first time this week, to mark Open Access Week, and can be downloaded... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]