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 ]
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 ]
Roger Rosen has acquired Enslow Publishing, which does nonfiction titles for children and young adults in subjects that range from biography to science and technology. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins has promoted Jaime Frost to the role of PR manager, working across the fiction department. Frost, previously PR executive, has been with the publisher for the past two yeas, working on campaigns for authors including Josephine Cox, Robin Hobb, Joe Abercrombie and Mhairi... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tim Coates has blamed uncertainty over the ebook market for the collapse of his ebook site Bilbary. The ebookseller went into liquidation in April, with a final creditors’ meeting to be held in December. Coates is now working on The Freckle Project, a new ebook venture aiming to bridge the gap... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Twitter campaign to encourage more authors to sign up to Public Lending Right has been successful, according to Tracy Chevalier. Seventy authors registered for PLR in the first week of the campaign, led by Chevalier - an increase of 400% on the same period the year before. Chevalier, chair... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The popular review site partners with Hipmunk, and takes a shot at the likes of Expedia and booking.com.Yelp, the crowd-sourced review site, announced a partnership Tuesday with the travel booking site Hipmunk that will let users book hotel reservations using Yelp's website and mobile apps.Read... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2014-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google and Facebook continued to pour millions of dollars into federal political lobbying in the third quarter in attempts to influence U.S. lawmakers and have legislation written in their favor.Google spent US$3.94 million between July and September while Facebook spent $2.45 million, according... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2014-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
A raft of stories speculate on what the new terms deal between Amazon and Simon & Schuster means for authors, other publishers and, of course, Hachette. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
PW spoke to the McSweeney's executive editor about how the company's recent shift to nonprofit status will affect its brand, and output, moving forward. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Richard Preston's book 'The Hot Zone' was published in 1994 and tells the story of Ebola appearing in a lab in Washington D.C. Now it's back on bestseller lists and it could be adapted as a TV series. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins UK’s Sam Missingham argues there’s no better way to promote books than social media, but you really have to work at it. The post Is Social Media Marketing Heaven or Hell? appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The International Publishing Association released data indicated the UK lead the world in new titles published per capita and export revenue in 2013. The post UK Tops in Titles Published Per Capita and Export Revenue appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bertelmann is to spend "in the mid-hundreds of millions" in US dollars on American e-learning provider Relias Learning, describing it as the company's "biggest purchase in the US since it took over Random House in 1998". The buy, which will have to be approved by antitrust authorities, is... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
David Walliams notched up his fourth consecutive week atop the Official UK Top 50, while the Man Booker Prize proved a massive boost for Richard Flanagan. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster in the US and Amazon have signed a new multiyear deal which is a "return to a version of agency" and is also “economically advantageous for both Simon & Schuster and its authors”. An email from Carolyn Reidy (pictured), president and c.e.o. at Simon & Schuster, said... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon and Simon & Schuster recently reached a deal on ebook and print book prices and it gives Simon & Schuster control over ebook prices 'with some limited exceptions.' E-book prices are reportedly part of the ongoing dispute between Amazon and publisher Hachette. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The History Press has restructured following a company-wide review, creating four distinct business units, and putting "a small number" of people into consultation over their jobs. The independent publisher, specialising in local history as well as military history titles, underwent a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Nazarene Publishing House and its trade imprint, Beacon Hill Press, will shut down on December 1 due to “shifting cultural circumstances including changes in the church” that have caused declining revenues and financial instability for the press. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
UK tops chart of publications per million inhabitants by a huge margin, with only China and US publishing more titles in absolute termsUK publishers released more than 20 new titles every hour over the course of 2014, meaning that the country published more books per inhabitant than anywhere... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]