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 | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Madeleine Millburn, a literary agent from London, offers her view on which international markets offer the most opportunities and how digital publishing has impacted the rights business. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
A documentary based on '13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi' (Twelve, 9781455582273), by Mitchell Zuckoff with the Annex Security Team, will premiere on Friday, September 5 on the Fox News Channel. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Stephan J Harper's litany of angry comments about a critic is a textbook demonstration of the reasons why wounded writers should keep shtumIf it's not the craziest response ever by a novelist to a negative review, it's almost certainly the longest, most obsessive and most ridiculous. When... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
This week, new Ian McEwan, new Joseph O'Neill, and the stunning debut novel, "A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oxford University Press (OUP) is republishing Anthony Trollope’s Barchester Chronicles... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new coalition is being formed to tackle what it calls a "reading crisis" among... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The unofficial start of the fall season is beginning with a grand reopening of a bookstore under new ownership and the opening of two stores. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Multinational publishers know that regional book editions increase their options for selling titles, especially in the education segment. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
When Sara Benincasa was 6 years old, she found a book in her parents’ basement that she knew she wasn’t supposed to read. She read it anyway. “I was like, ‘This lady is naughty! This lady’s a mom, but she doesn’t talk like any mom I’ve ever heard of!’ ” Benincasa says. The book was Joan Rivers’... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Audiobooks have long been known for, as Audio Publishers Association president Michele Cobb puts it, their “great multitasking properties.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Conde Nast has named Chris Mitchell, VP-publisher of GQ, to the same position at sibling title Vanity Fair. Wired magazine VP-Publisher Howard Mittman will succeed Mr. Mitchell at GQ, the company said.No successor has been named for Mr. Mittman.The announcements come two weeks after Conde Nast... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Children’s religion publisher B&H Kids has acquired 90 children’s titles from Standard Publishing, including works by such popular authors as Sally Lloyd Jones and Andy Holmes. The deal also covers series like My Goodnight Bible and The Young Reader’s Bible. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
NewBay Media has named John Laposky editor-in-chief of TWICE. Laposky had served as the magazine's managing editor since 1995. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Avon has signed rights in three novels by C L Taylor. Senior commissioning editor Lydia Vassar-... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
B&N testing Espresso Book Machines and more in this week's publishing news briefs. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Standards are like plumbing: they are only noticed when they don’t work. And like plumbing, retrofitting a 200-year-old structure—legacy publishing—with new metadata standards to improve commerce in the digital age is, at best, a complex process. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Headline is to publish Our Zoo by June Mottershead, the true story of the creation of Chester Zoo... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Little, Brown’s crime imprint, Mulholland Books, is reissuing 25 books by Jim Thompson, 37 years after the author's death. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The novelist is the first author to commit to public art project Future Library.Award-winning author Margaret Atwood is writing a new book--but don't expect to pre-order it on Amazon anytime soon. The book will be the first text included in Future Library, a public art project set to unfold over... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]