Ingram Content Group has partnered with Microgroove, a Seattle software developer, to provide digital tools to give businesses with mobile e-commerce applications the ability to sell physical books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Neil Gaiman will present the medal to Le Guin at the 65th National Book Awards ceremony on November 19, in New York City. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
UK literary agency Andrew Lownie outlines the range of activities he is involved with in a typical agency week, from the mundane and routine, to the offbeat and extraordinary. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Revenue at Barnes & Noble fell 7% in the first quarter ended August 2, to $1.23 billion, but the retailer cut its net loss to $28.4 million from $87.0 million in the first period of fiscal 2014. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The first-ever app from the James Beard Foundation highlights vegetable recipes featured in 'The James Beard Foundation's Best of the Best,' with entries from Alice Waters, Charlie Trotter, Dan Barber, Mario Batali, and Daniel Boulud, among others. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Group SJR has hired Pulitzer Prize winners and is stepping up its international expansion to compete with publishers' native ad studios for marketing spend. The post WPP touts its journalism cred in battle for branded content appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Joel Osteen offers more encouragement in his newest book; James Carroll explores the meaning of Jesus for today. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writing for The Atlantic, Kate Newman wonders why memoirs aren't fact-checked more closely and questions whether a lack of resources is really to blame. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
A powerful debut memoir of grief and the Buddha's guide to office politics are among notable religion books publishing in September. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Established in memory of Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow, the $25,000 award is presented biannually to a living American author whose "scale of achievement in fiction, over a sustained career, places him or her in the highest rank of American literature." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Rick Wolff, who was laid off from Hachette in June, has been hired by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to start a new line of business books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Expanding to three days and a bigger hall did not prevent the Baltimore Comic Con, held September 5-7 at the Baltimore Convention Center, from remaining the same friendly, informal event that many in the area have come to love. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Diana Broccardo, sales and marketing director for both Profile and Serpent's Tail, has spoken... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Laird Hunt's 'Neverhome,' which was published by Little, Brown on Tuesday, is the author's sixth book, and his first from a major house. It's also, for editor Josh Kendall, a hoped-for literary breakout. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
SPX, an annual festival for independent and self-published comics, opens this weekend, September 13-14 in North Bethesda, Maryland with such artists as Lynda Barry, Keith Knight, Charles Burns and others. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Wiley & Sons has reported a 4% year-on-year revenue rise at constant currency for the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
That Higgs boson that everyone was so eager to find last year? As it turns out, it could be the end of everything -- in the wrong circumstances, anyway. In his upcoming book Starmus, Stephen Hawking notes that the once-elusive particle could become... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The shortlist for the 2014 Man Booker Prize has been announced, and includes, for the first time in the prize's history, writers from outside the U.K and Commonwealth. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Movies, movies, and more movies were the key to book sales for teens and younger readers this summer. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Philip Gulley wrote nine novels featuring Quaker pastor Sam Gardner in his popular Harmony series. Gulley's latest book kicks off a new series that follows Pastor Sam as he heads to a tiny church in another small fictional town in Indiana called Hope. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]