Dan Reynolds, CEO and president of Workman imprints Storey and Timber, has been named CEO of Workman Publishing Company, effective immediately. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Headline is to publish a novel by "The X-Files" actor David Duchovny. Publishing... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Wattpad has upgraded its copyright protection to Creative Commons 4.0, offering fans the ability to remix millions of stories into new content with permission. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
BitLit has landed a deal with the publisher to allow readers to get their print books into an ebook format. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
New partnership for a new house; book award nominations open; indie honors for two publishers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Humble Bundle, the pay-what-you-wish online venture that distributes bundles of DRM-free digital content, is launching two separate bundles featuring comics from Robert Kirkman's Skybound imprint and IDW's Transformers series. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Vets Tom Wallace and John Bellando are out; David Geithner named CFO and president Bob Sauerberg adds ad sales oversight at the publishing company. The post A big shakeup comes to Condé Nast appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2014-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Numerous top authors are enlisting fellow writers to formulate a "long-term" strategy to combat Amazon's dominance of the market, writes The Bookseller. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Americans Joshua Ferris and Richard Powers, among others, made the cut, but Donna Tartt's Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Goldfinch" was notably absent from the first global longlist. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Two new releases made Apple's iBooks bestseller list for the week ended July 21. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
After producing a long line of ebook readers and tablets (not to mention a set-top box), Amazon has its sights set on the smartphone market. But finding success here won't be easy, even for an established tech giant like Amazon. With the Fire phone,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2014-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Rowling's detective series, written under the pen name Robert Galbraith, will eventually outnumber the 'Harry Potter' series Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Market data company Voxburner, publisher Nosy Crow and publicists Angel Publicity are among early... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Picador is to publish a memoir by Cathy Rentzenbrink, associate editor at The Bookseller and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
'The Green Prince,' a documentary based on Mosab Hassan Yousef’s bestselling memoir ‘Son of Hamas’ previews in July and opens in New York and Los Angeles in September, followed by a nationwide roll out. The film--which tells the story of a Palestinian activist who became a spy for Israel--won an... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
The executive suite at Conde Nast, publisher of Vogue and Vanity Fair, experienced a shakeup Wednesday that leaves Vogue Editor Anna Wintour as the unchallenged top editorial voice at the company and moving Conde Nast closer to an eventual transition in the CEO role.The company said its longtime... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mighty Media Inc.,a Minneapolis packaging, production, and interactive company, has, as of July 1, made Scarletta, which publishes books primarily for the children's market, a division of Mighty Media. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
A starred review for Rowan Williams' exploration of Christian essentials; Lysa TerKeurst offers advice on making decisions. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Carolrhoda Lab is releasing in spring 2015 "The Bunker Diary" by Kevin Brooks, a YA novel that ignited a firestorm of controversy in the U.K. recently, when it was awarded the Carnegie Medal. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
At Portfolio, Sentinel, and Current, Jacquelynn Burke and Margot Stamas have been promoted to senior publicist. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]