As she kicks off her third year at the helm of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer is courting advertisers aggressively. She met with 500 advertising and agency executives, representing 350 brands, during the second quarter.And during Advertising Week on Thursday, the CEO worked to convince marketers that her... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
In an email to authors, Amazon officials shared more details on its recently announced American Idol-style crowdsourced publishing platform. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
As part of Madavor Media's portfolio of properties, the company publishes Gluten-Free Living, an accompanying website, conference and daily deal site. It was Susan who identified that Madavor had been very successful in managing the Gluten-Free Living brand, which was positioned as the most... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2014-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
'Killing Patton,' the fourth installment in Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard’s Killing series, debuted on Apple’s bestseller list at #2 for the week ended September 28. T Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Anisse Gross has been named the new West Coast correspondent for PW, effecting October 1. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The award-winning comedian, actor and writer Stephen Fry has said his new volume of memoirs, More Fool Me, reveals the "ugly truth" about his cocaine use in the 1980s. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Junkudo location in Tokyo is inviting six guests to sleep over at their store. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
By D. Eadward Tree Google, the epitome of the internet ventures that have so disrupted the magazine industry, turns out to have a crush on traditional publishers, a recently leaked report reveals. But... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Executive | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writing on the blog Love German Books, translator Katy Derbyshire makes the call for a prize honoring women authors in translation. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The cocktail party at the trendy Crosby Street Hotel in SoHo could have been a networking event for a hip New York investment bank or publishing house—a swarm of young women in their late 20s and 30s, mostly in business attire. But the attendees weren’t thinking about their careers. They were... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jodi Picoult has inked a deal with Delacorte Press to co-write another YA novel with her daughter, Samantha van Leer. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
This year's ICv2 Conference, a half-day event to be held the day before New York Comic Con opens, will examine “The New Comics Customer," and look at the forces behind a resurgent comics marketplace that is attracting new readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
A half-dozen of the 27 newcomers on the Forbes annual list of the 400 richest U.S. citizens disclosed this week are from the San Francisco Bay Area, including four in technology, one in biotechnology and one in venture capital. Topping the newcomer list in net worth was Jan Koum, co-founder and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
By Dan Eldridge There's certainly nothing new, or even particularly unusual, about magazine publishers trading on the public recognition of their brands to create new lines of consumer products and services. Back... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Executive | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
In its new white paper, Danish publishing consultancy Schilling challenged executives to answer “what should a publishing company built from scratch look like?” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Dominic Myers, previously managing director of Waterstones in the U.K., became head of Amazon Publishing in Europe effective September 22. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
At Tuesday's opening panel of the New England Independent Booksellers Association fall conference, editors at houses big, and small, stressed how important independent bookstores are in the current market. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
On Sept. 29, Hearst Magazines president David Carey announced the creation of a new "Millennial Group" to better showcase the editorial and marketing common denominators between Seventeen and Cosmopolitan among women and girls born after 1980. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
We talked to Random House editor and Amtrak Residency judge Sam Nicholson about picking the first class of writers for the unique program. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Walter Scott's "Wendy" charts the trials of its eponymous heroine, an intelligent, 20-something, art school graduate with dreams of artistic success and stardom. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]