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Closures were up 42% over the previous year, according to the Guardian. The companies that folded included the 26-year-old healthcare publisher Panos London and Evans Brothers.Ninety-eight British publishers closed their doors in the year ending August 2013. The cause? E-books and online discounts. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins is releasing HarperCollins Unbound, a new, free app for Apple and Android smartphones that allows consumers to scan HarperCollins print books for additional digital content. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An audiobook version of Morrissey's Autobiography will be read by actor David Morrissey.... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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You just know Amazon's been waiting forever for this cheeky product discount. But heck, if it means not having to buy a $20 Dan Brown book before rushing to catch a flight, we'll take it. In celebration of the FAA easing its personal electronic device restrictions (not to mention Delta and... Continue reading at 'Engadget'
[ Engadget | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Effective January 1, Consortium, a member of the Perseus Books Group, will begin distributing titles for nonfiction publisher Nicholas Brealey. Consortium will handle U.S. and Canada distribution for Nicholas Brealey, which holds offices in both Boston and London. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BlackBerry has abandoned plans to sell itself and has instead found about $1 billion in new funds that it will use to try to turn its business around. The company is also planning far–reaching changes to management and will remove both its CEO Thorsten Heins and some directors. Heins is replaced... Continue reading at 'Fast Company'
[ Fast Company | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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I have looked at a lot of different views of Earth from space -- taken by astronauts, satellites and other spacecraft -- so I was not expecting to be all that impressed by the images collected into a new book called Earth from Space. But I was very wrong. Continue reading at 'Wired'
[ Wired | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Edinburgh University Press has acquired the business and publishing assets of Dundee University... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Jaques Ferrandez is beloved and celebrated in France yet practically unknown in the Anglo-Saxon world; his recent adaptation of 'L’Étranger' (The Stranger) has been a bestseller. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PRH's Spanish-language publishing division Random House Mondadori has been renamed Penguin... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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HarperCollins will publish the filmscript of "Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa". Anna... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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The journalist who broke, and continues to break, the NSA Snowden leaks may be off to Greenwald–ier pastures with the launch of his exciting new journalism venture, but on Friday the Guardian published an incredible NSA explainer that breaks down and visualizes some of the newest, and most... Continue reading at 'Fast Company'
[ Fast Company | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former children's laureate Michael Rosen is to play a leading role in developing an MA in... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Most startups will never see anything close to the amount of money Twitter plans on raising during its IPO this week (a reported $1.6 billion) and in fact, three out of four tech businesses fail. Entrepreneurs in training looking to create a successful company, then, might want to know what... Continue reading at 'Fast Company'
[ Fast Company | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sheryl Sandberg helped Facebook post some insane numbers: after their IPO debacle of May 2012, shares have gone up 140% in the past year, to about $50. As Miguel Helft writes for Fortune, that's partly due to the company's reorganization around mobile, which critics once bashed them for being... Continue reading at 'Fast Company'
[ Fast Company | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bestselling French author Gerard de Villiers, who died on Thursday, is now getting a posthumous crack at the U.S. market. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lucy Hughes-Hallett's biography of Italian artist Gabriele D'Annunzio, The Pike (4th... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Upscale shelter magazine Dwell, which is moving its editorial operations to Manhattan from San Francisco, just launched an online store that offers fans a handpicked selection of furniture and other home (and office) goods. But rather than acting as a link between buyer and seller, like most... Continue reading at 'Crains New York'
[ Crains New York | 2013-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"I was just sitting with my dog in the sun daydreaming and the book came along, the rabbit fur cover, the feeling of the thing, its weight," Iranian–New Zealander artist Nabil Sabio Azadi tells Co.Design of For You the Traveller, the world's furriest travel book, available this week for the... Continue reading at 'Fast Company'
[ Fast Company | 2013-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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There have been great advances in short-run digital printing (SRDP) and print-on-demand (POD) technologies over the last decade. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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