Publishers are discovering that giving contributors the keys to their publishing platforms often opens up a host of new issues. The post When publishers’ platform dreams become nightmares appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2014-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
About 25% of the sales of a Holt memoir by a debut author have been in Iowa's bookstores, due to the heroic efforts of a Decorah bookseller Kate Rattenborg. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Rowling's newest original content penned for the website Pottermore focuses on Celestina Warbeck, an 'off-stage' character whose songs are heard in the 'Potter' novels although the singer never makes an actual appearance. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
eBooks come in many different formats, and while some are easy to read anywhere (PDF, DOCX) others can be much trickier to handle outside of your regular reader (FB2, PDB). If that’s a problem, you might like to try TEBookConverter, a portable tool for Windows which converts these more awkward... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2014-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Harlequin MIRA has acquired the rights to two new novels and two ebook short stories form Kate... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kensington Publishing has entered an exclusive partnership with the Books-A-Million bookstore chain to launch Lyrical High Notes, a new line that will release select titles from Kensington’s digital imprint in trade paperback editions. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Rowling's newest original content penned for the website Pottermore focuses on Celestina Warbeck, an 'off-stage' character whose songs are heard in the 'Potter' novels although the singer never makes an actual appearance. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Attacks on the Press Council reflect the conveniently shifting opinions of news media publishers to the political environment rather than fundamental questions of press freedom Continue reading... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Cambridge University Press has reported a sales increase of 5% at constant currency rates in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
A successful Kickstarter campaign for his book completed, Todd Allen looks back on the final results and lessons learned, and ponders whether he would use Kickstarter again. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michael Sand, executive editor at Little, Brown, has been appointed v-p, publisher, adult trade at Abrams, effective September 22. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
More than 1,000 writers from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland have signed a letter to Amazon saying that the company has made Bonnier-published books less available and manipulated Amazon's recommended reading lists. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The top newspaper and magazine publishers in the U.K. have now crossed the mobile-desktop audience threshold, with many reporting that over half their audience now views their content on mobile and tablet devices. The post Mobile traffic surpasses desktop for top UK publishers appeared first on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2014-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Can a one-size-fits-all, low-price, consumer-dominated sales model support a diverse, innovative, challenging literary output?It is either an existential threat to intellectual freedom or a rustbelt media industry meeting its comeuppance at the hands of disruptive technology. The battle between... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Little, Brown Book Group has created a new editorial division encompassing the Piatkus, Constable... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Legend Press has bought world rights to two novels from award-winning crime writer Ruth Dugdall... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lizz Skelly, formerly of Hachette, is joining Bloomsbury Children’s Books as children... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Austrian, Swiss and German authors have sent an open letter of protest to Amazon, protesting the use of 'authors and their books as a bargaining chip to exact deeper discounts.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
PW spoke to the creators of How Sweet Eats, The Kitchn, Skinnytaste, and 100 Days of Real Food, as well as their editors, about what went into building their popular sites and their new cookbooks. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Over the weekend, the 'New York Times' reported on a letter of protest, from authors in Germany, about a terms dispute between Amazon and the local publisher, Bonnier. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-18 00:00:00 UTC ]