In a year in which four publishers closed, paused, or slimmed down their fiction lists, members of the American Christian Fiction Writers held their annual conference Sept. 25-27 in St. Louis to honor their best, talk shop, and see who was still standing, though all agreed there are still... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ad pages are gone and in their place, the MPA has released collection of audience data for magazine brands across the industry. The new initiative, Magazine Media 360, changes the narrative from one of consistent declines—ad pages were down in each of the last 4 years, according to t Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2014-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster has partnered with Scandinavian ebook subscription service Mofibo to make its backlist titles available to readers in Denmark and Sweden. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Emma Lowe is to join The Bookseller as head of publisher relations. Lowe is currently general... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ad page declines. Newsstand woes. Distribution messes. Postage increases. Digital growth. It's no secret that audience development and circulation practices have been faced with a monumental set of challenges recently. As print becomes a smaller part of publishers' bottom lines, the role of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2014-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bestselling cookbook author Yotam Ottolenghi talked to PW about his new cookbook, moving beyond the expected, working with "exotic" ingredients, and the one question he can't be pinned down on. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
David Walliams easily romped to the number one spot on the UK Official Top 50 in the strongest... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay and Honolulu Civil Beat, was the only full-time Hawaii resident to make Forbes magazine’s l ist of the 400 richest Americans. But part-time isle residents such as Larry Ellison, Michael Dell and Oprah Winfrey — and soon-to-be landowner Mark Zuckerberg — also made... Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2014-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
The European Commission believes Apple could have received significant tax reductions from Irish authorities, and is focusing its investigation on tax rulings that favored two Apple subsidiaries, according to a newly revealed Commission document.The 21-page document explained the Commission’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2014-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
In another step in the integration of Penguin and Random House, the company has completed the buyout process of eligible members within the PRH sales group. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Six years after Blue Dome launched in the United States to publish books on Islamic spirituality, history, and art, it has added a new category to its list: cooking. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
For the third year in a row, Random House (but not its Penguin side, because the warehouses aren't integrated yet) will provide express shipping, starting November 1. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lionel Shriver has won the BBC National Short Story Award 2014 for her story “Kilifi Creek... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kei Miller has won The Forward Prize for Best Collection for The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
In 1990, Susan Orlean published a book called Saturday Night, in which she set out to document how Americans spend their weekly reprieve from work. “Saturday night,” she wrote, “is when you want to do what you want to do and not what you have to do.” One thing people want to do on Saturday night... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2014-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
If "Gossip Girl" premiered today, it would be a digital-video series, according to Dawn Ostroff, former president of entertainment at The CW Television Network, which aired the teenage melodrama for six seasons starting in 2007.Speaking at the Interactive Advertising Bureau's annual conference... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Book trade figures including publisher Alexandra Pringle (pictured), agent Caroline Michel and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Skyhorse Publishing is continuing its acquisitive ways, placing the high bid for the assets of the bankrupt Good Books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Brazil is the country of honor at the Göteborg Book Fair and a trio of Brazilian authors reflect on having had their work promoted overseas these past several years. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Osprey Publishing Group has sold imprints Watkins, Angry Robot and Nourish to US entrepreneur... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]