Amazon has officially launched its Kindle Unlimited ebook subscription service in the US today (... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penny Makras will be joining the Harper marketing team on July 21 as a senior marketing manager. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers and booksellers have backed the first ever trade-wide acknowledgement of Super... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
StumbleUpon has been a mainstay of native advertising. But it's lost some of its luster with the rise of Facebook and Twitter. The post Publishers’ love-hate relationship with StumbleUpon appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2014-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
After teasing us with a possible launch, Amazon has confirmed Kindle Unlimited, its all-you-can-read ebook subscription service. For $9.99 per month, Kindle Unlimited offers 600,000 books and "thousands" of audiobooks across a range of devices. As... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2014-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
This week, a spine-tingling horror novel, what life was really like in Dickens's London, and the new James Lee Burke novel. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The US Supreme Court rejects an emergency petition from the heirs of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who are trying to stop the publication of a book based on Sherlock Holmes. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2014-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The first half of 2014 was one of the publishing industry’s busiest six-month periods for mergers and acquisitions since the start of the Great Recession. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lisa Bloom author of "Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It" (Counterpoint, 9781619023277) will appear on "Dr. Phil" on Friday, July 18. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Belinda Bauer has won the £3,000 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Even with Facebook and Twitter and legions of newsreaders and apps, news organizations are still grappling with and working feverishly on new publishing technologies and resurfacing old content to siphon the glut of content and bring the news to new ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2014-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
With an assist from the Stephen Colbert bump, Edan Lepucki's debut novel hit #3 on the "New York Times" bestseller list; #20 on PW's. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
From small-town New Mexico to a military base in Kuala Lumpur, publisher promises 'razor-sharp dialogue and headlong pacing'A collection of previously unpublished short stories by the late Elmore Leonard will be released next year, his publisher has said. Continue reading... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
There is a long-held belief among content publishers -- including many we are partnered with -- that they shouldn't pay to amplify their content. Their clear aversion most often comes from some dogmatic belief that quality content doesn't require paid promotion. For them, paying to promote... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jill Krebs, who has owned Hill Avenue Books, a full-service general bookstore in Spirit Lake, Iowa, for the past 15 years, has sold the bookstore to Rachael Tinker, a long-time customer. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon will likely introduce an ebook subscription service, Kindle Unlimited, in the near future. Subscribers will have access to over 600,000 ebooks and audiobooks for $9.99 per month. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Novelist J K Rowling has confirmed she plans "not seven, more" Robert Galbraith novels... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Doyle estate is hoping to overturn two lower court decisions that affirming that the character of Sherlock Homes is in the public domain, in anticipation of a full appeal. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster has signed Eighty Days erotica author Vina Jackson for a four-book deal.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publisher says it would fight any measure that restricted free speech amid furore over new security lawsAustralias biggest newspaper publisher and the media union have warned the government against elements of a planned new national security bill that could allow journalists to be jailed for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]