The editor bought U.S. rights to TED curator Chris Anderson's 'Talk This Way! The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking,' the first acquisition for his new line of business books at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lots of companies are grouping a few writers and designers together and proclaiming themselves "brand newsrooms," but most of the messaging that comes out of newsrooms like these feels stale and awkward. The culprit? Process. Most brands won't let a single Tweet, Facebook image, or banner ad out... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
News UK, the British publishing arm of News Corp, is digging deep into its data to drive readership. To do so, it’s looking outside of the publishing business to maximize the base of digital subscribers for its news properties, wh ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2014-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Swiss cartoonist Frederik Peeters' sci-fi series, Aama continues Verloc Nim's reluctant space journey with his brother Conrad and the android chimpanzee, Churchill, as they search to uncover any material relating to the mysterious experiment known as Aama. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Manga sales were brisk at New York Comic Con as droves of fans turned out to clamor over hit series Attack on Titan and classic properties like Sailor Moon; while Super star manga artist Takeshi Obata made his first trip to a North American comics show. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
PW talked to Mary Ann Naples, senior v-p and publisher Rodale, about the controversial book, the backlash, and how the company has hounded the duo about getting started on a second project. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon KDP's top selling author of all time, Barbara Freethy, has started a new imprint to oversee publication of her works in print formats. Hyde Street Press, part of Freethy’s Fog City Publishing company, will have its titles distributed by Ingram Publisher Services. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Proprietary content management systems have been a hot topic in digital publishing over the past year. Companies like Vox, Say Media, Forbes and others have made huge commitments to building out their platforms to not only serve internal needs but also provide licensed solutions for outside... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2014-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
It's not a shocker that print ad revenue has fallen while the pile of dimes from digital advertising has been growing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2014-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Worthy Publishing, a Christian house based in Nashville, has acquired the 50-year-old Ideals Children’s Books line from Guideposts. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
New numbers from Nielsen Books & Consumer show that ebook sales were outsold by both hardcovers and paperbacks in the first half of 2014. The post Print Continues to Outsell Digital During First Half of 2014 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Stacey Barney, senior editor at Penguin/Putnam Books for Young Readers, has been added to PW’s breakfast discussion on diversity in publishing set for October 16. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Harvard University Press has signed a book called 'Inequality' by Sir Anthony B Atkinson, who mentored Thomas Piketty, author of the international bestseller 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
The National Book Foundation revealed the finalists for the 2014 National Book Awards for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Naomi Klein's 'This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate' has won the C$60,000 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
BuzzFeed knows that if ain't broke, don't fix it. The publisher returned with a new Dear Kitten video with Friskies this week, though threw the cat’s mortal enemy—the dog—into the mix. And all the feline and canine love on the Internet has propelled the clip to 5.8 million views since it was... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2014-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Remember when comics grew up and got serious? Publishers have come full circle and now cater to young readers with new comics and graphic novels and tie-ins to old favorites. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon KDP's bestselling author of all time, Barbara Freethy, has started a new imprint to oversee publication of her books in print formats. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Not even 'The Blood of Olympus,' the much anticipated finale of Rick Riordan’s The Heroes of Olympus series, could oust 'Gone Girl' from the top spot on Apple’s iBooks bestseller list. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookstore sales had their best month of the year in August, with sales up 3.4% over August 2013. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]