Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has promised a future Conservative government would... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
For decades, ad pages were one of the key metrics for gauging the overall health of a magazine. But as magazine brands have come to encompass more than just a printed product, publishing industry insiders have been looking for new data that better reflect those changes. This week MPA–The... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2014-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sheila Levine, associate director and editorial director of the University of California Press until her retirement in 2011, died September 21 after a long struggle with ovarian cancer. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
TV network options on books have exploded. Publishers Lunch, a trade that tracks book industry deals, lists an ever-increasing number of television options over the last few years, with 2013 setting the record and this year looking good. And with massive success stories like Game of Thrones... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2014-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
How the innovative startup Advance Editions is turning book editing into a conversationPublishing is an increasingly crowded field. This summer Paul Kingsnorths The Wake became the first crowdfunded book to make it, via Unbound, on to the Booker longlist. Some publishers are crowdsourcing their... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
The reason the author of the Jack Reacher novels weighs in on Amazon-Hachette dispute has nothing to do with the "protection money" that Amazon is demanding from publishers. Child signed with thriller writer Douglas Preston's Authors United, a group of writers who want to take authors out of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
An editor whose long career in women's magazines included 20 years as editor-in-chief at Good Housekeeping has died. John Mack Carter was 86. A statement from Hearst Corp. said Mr. Carter died... To view the full story, click the title link. Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2014-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Mack Carter, one of the industry's most influential magazine editors and the longtime voice of McCall's, Ladies' Home Journal and Good Housekeeping, has died at 86 following a long battle with Parkinson's. Mr. Carter was the only person in publishing history to helm all three titles.Mr.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
William Collins has signed a title exploring the growth of the Islamic State, for publication in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
What we learned from The Bookseller Childrens Conference about how kids are reading and how publishers are respondingIn 2014, childrens books are facing more competition than ever from other forms of entertainment, particularly digital: games, apps, YouTube and social networking.Does this mean... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Want to know what international agents, editors and foreign rights specialists see happening in their respective markets? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber has pre-empted a debut thriller by Tim Baker, Fever City. Editorial director Angus Cargill... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Billing itself as the oldest publisher in the state and the largest historical society press in the country, Minnesota Historical Society Press has been publishing regional titles since 1859, while Wisconsin Historical Society Press has been doing it since 1855. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
How can the digital age use the tried-and-true concept of a picture book to create something new and wonderful for children? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Some in book publishing may dismiss the region that lies between and fans out from Lake Superior and Lake Michigan’s southern shores as “flyover country.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
E-book sales accounted for 23% of unit sales in the first six months of 2014, according to Nielsen Books & Consumer’s latest survey of the nation’s book-buying behavior. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Paul M. Barrett, author of 'Law of the Jungle: The $19 Billion Legal Battle Over Oil in the Rain Forest and the Lawyer Who'd Stop at Nothing to Win' (Crown, 9780770436346), will appear on NPR’s 'On the Media' on Saturday, September 27. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
According to several sources, the Perseus Books Group has completed negotiations over new ebook terms with Amazon. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, children & teens, and more for the week ended September 21, 2014. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mans photo published in front-page stories on Abdul Numan Haider, shot dead by police after allegedly stabbing two officers Continue reading... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]