Man Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel has defended her story about plotting to kill the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Charles Burns and Michael Cho Signing in Cambridge, MA; 'From Here to Here' Exhibition Opening in New York, NY; Lucy Knisely Signing in Chicago, IL; Long Beach Comic Con in Long Beach, CA. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Comedian David Mitchell has slammed Amazon as "benefit scroungers" in a barnstorming... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
UK mountaineering literature publisher Vertebrate Publishing has three titles chosen as category... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Held this past weekend at the Sheraton hotel in downtown Norfolk, Va., SIBA 2014 drew more than 500 booksellers, authors, vendors, exhibitors, and attendees eager to embrace this year’s theme and “fall in love.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
After rumblings surfaced that Amazon is creating a new crowd-sourcing publishing platform, the e-tailer has confirmed that the new program is "in the works." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Specs Who LL Cool J Age 46 Claim to fame Grammy Award- winning rapper and star of NCIS: Los Angeles (Season 6 premieres Monday, Sept. 29 on CBS) Base New York What’s the first information you consume in the morning? I look at all the trending topics everywhere, but I also like to maybe read... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House’s crime community Dead Good Books and Specsavers have teamed up for #... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The new unit, Liberty Hill Publishing, is being launched in partnership with Salem Communications, a conservative media company which owns, among other properties, Regnery Publishing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oxford University professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger offers a preview of his presentation on Big Data in Publishing, which he will deliver at the Frankfurt Book Fair's CONTEC conference on October 7. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Book Industry Study Group Annual Meeting highlighted the growing benefits of data capture and feedback, among other trends. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The keynote address, a conversation between Franklin Foer and Andrew Keen, looked at how the mega-retailer has changed the dynamics by turing "the citizen" into "the consumer," and trying to position booksellers as "dinosaurs." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
“I was Dick Donner’s assistant for four years, where I just constantly asked him about Superman,” confessed Geoff Johns, chief creative officer of DC Comics. “And The Goonies. He told me once that if he’d done another Superman movie, he would have made it about Brainiac, and I was just like,... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Brand publishers are more aware that they’re really just renting social media space on Facebook and are moving resources away from the social network. One agency said its clients are pulling away from Facebook in “dramatic numbers”—reallocating their resources to microsites and alternate social... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Specs Who LL Cool J Age 46 Claim to fame Grammy Award- winning rapper and star of NCIS: Los Angeles (Season 6 premieres Monday, Sept. 29 on CBS) Base New York What’s the first information you consume in the morning? I look at all the trending topics everywhere, but I also like to maybe read... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pearson is launching a five-year project on literacy by inviting people to contribute tips on... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The organization formerly known as the Online Publishers Association (OPA) has announced a new name, Digital Content Next, a rebrand that signals a renewed focus on defining and confronting critical, big picture issues that its members face when crea ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The company has appointed Jim Childs publisher of its trade division, effective October 13. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Father and son John and Sam Eldredge talked about everything in weekly conversations after Sam graduated from college. These talks with his father eased Sam's transition to manhood, and now they are captured in a book for the benefit of other young men. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
There's a reason everyone you know is obsessed with the quirky site that makes content parodying viral content--and then makes it go viral.Getting George Takei to share something you made with his 7 million Facebook followers is like crushing a piñata filled with free pageviews. It's a huge... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2014-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]