Novelist says it is 'delicious' to be first contributor to the Future Library, which will compile 100 texts for publication in 2114Depending on perspective, it is an author's dream or nightmare: Margaret Atwood will never know what readers think of the piece of fiction she is currently working... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 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 ]
With stock prices rising at eight companies and falling at five, the Publishers Weekly Stock Index rose 5.5% in August, beating the increase in the Dow Jones Industrial Average by more than two percentage points. 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 ]
William Heinemann has acquired a book which will reveal “the powers of the unconscious mind... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 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 ]
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 ]
Time Inc. will borrow a page from the National Geographic playbook to revive its declining print empire. Joe Ripp, the chief executive of Time Inc., who has unnerved old timers at America’s largest magazine publisher with ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 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 ]
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 ]
Subjects of new coloring books from Really Big Coloring Books include ISIS and the Boston Marathon bombings. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
In a move designed to attract and support children’s book authors and self-publishers, Amazon has launched KDP Kids, a children's-focused illustrated and chapter book category in the Kindle Store. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The group of more than 900 authors will launch a new initiative, possibly next week. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Home of Marie Claire, NME and Whats on TV to become Time Inc UK to provide strategic clarity Continue reading... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Reading charity Booktrust has added Indonesia as a new international affiliate for its Bookstart... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Through the organization, many are setting up tiny wooden structures where passersby can swap books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Guinness World Records (GWR) will unveil a special 60th anniversary edition in a global press... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Picador is to publish two new books by Clive James, including a collection of poetry. Sentenced... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]