Jennifer Hershey’s career came full circle last week when she was promoted to associate publisher of Ballantine Bantam Dell—a role that she’s taking on in addition to her current responsibilities as senior v-p and editor-in-chief. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google has added one more to its growing collection of packaged-goods marketing executives -- Julie Eddleman, who was the top U.S. media executive of the biggest U.S. advertising spender, Procter & Gamble Co.Jodi Allen, VP-North America brand of P&G and Ms. Eddleman's boss, has assumed... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Winters goes ‘Underground’ at Mulholland and more in this week's notable book deals. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tech-savvy South Korean publishers were out in force at the Beijing Book Fair (27th–31st... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nook Media has signed a multi-platform partnership with ESI Media, the commercial department of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
On September 2, three candidates for New York’s 52nd Assembly District held a debate in Brooklyn Heights. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, children & teens, and more for the week ended August 24, 2014. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
A lot of Google services have transitioned to gain the title of "apps", and the same is true of a large number of extensions for the Chrome browser. These online tools are essentially cross-platforms apps that work identically Now Google is taking another step to break out of the confines of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2014-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that libraries have the right to digitize books and distribute them to dedicated reading terminals without first obtaining the publisher's permission. The decision rests on exceptions built... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2014-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lou Johnson, who has been managing director of Simon & Schuster Australia since 2010, has resigned from the post. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
More than 700 authors and 75 agencies have registered for Random House’s Author Portal... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury has acquired the world rights for two picture books from debut author Lou Carter.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
WikiLeaks founders ill-starred book was offered as a project to the novelist, who decided two control freaks should not collaborateThe two-time Booker-winning novelist Peter Carey turned down the opportunity to ghost the memoirs of his fellow Australian and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, he... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Polis Books, which was launched in late 2013 by novelist Jason Pinter, is a digital-first publishing venture driven by a combination of traditional publishing experience and new media savvy. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sophie Hannah, author of the new Hercule Poirot mystery "The Monogram Murders," shares how she channeled one of literature's greats, and one of literature's great characters. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
It's been a good week for indie bookstores with Maple Street Book Shop in New Orleans celebrating its first half century and two stores announcing successful transitions. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Following the Frankfurt Book Fair’s sponsorship of The Bookseller’s Rising Stars list... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pavilion Books has bought a Creole cookbook by Vanessa Bolosier. Senior commissioning editor... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Months after rumors that Byliner, a publisher of digital longform nonfiction and fiction, was having financial problems, digital publishing services vendor Vook has acquired Byliner, which will now be Vook’s first in-house publishing imprint. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Journalism is expensive. As big publishers close bureaus and slash staff, they're leaving major areas and big issues uncovered. And crowd funding platform Beacon has been quietly picking up some slack. The post A Kickstarter for journalism enters the big leagues appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2014-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]