The launch of the Espresso Book Machine at BookExpo America in June 2007 promised to usher in a new age of bookseller publishers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The year was 1984, and things were about to get interesting for a young publishing executive at the academic Westview Press, in Colorado, named Lynne Rienner. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon has gone directly to authors 'hoping to gain hearts and minds – and leverage' in its dispute with Hachette. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
After months of wielding the stick, Amazon is trying the carrot—or at least pretending to—in its feud with Hachette over ebook pricing. Early this week, it sent a letter to “a few authors and agents” with a sugarcoated proposal to “take authors out of the middle” of the dispute. So long as... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2014-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel issued an official proclamation earlier this week, declaring Saturday, July 12 to be Chicago Independent Bookstore Day. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Just days ahead of Chicago Bookstore Day on July 12, California Bookstore Day, which inspired it, announced a new sponsor. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Is it too much to ask for a comic book flick that doesn't rely on three crappy prequels for the plot to make sense? Let's lose the complicated, interwoven storylines and focus on quality standalone films. Angry Nerd explains why Marvel's new Guardians of the Galaxy gets it just right. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2014-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The British Museum has unveiled a new 1, 200 sq ft bookshop aimed at doubling revenue. The new... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Teresa Zampino has joined Penguin Random House International Sales & Marketing as Penguin Group marketing manager, international. She was previously at Hachette Book Group. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster UK is expanding its commercial women’s fiction website Books and the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins imprints Fourth Estate, William Collins and The Friday Project have a new marketing... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The post On the agenda at Digiday Publishing Summit: Sept. 17-19 appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2014-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
In recent years, a debate has raged on among publishing and advertising industry insiders over “sponsored content”—more recently called “native advertising” and once known as & ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2014-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Comic book writer Alan Moore says a council's plans to sell a 4,000-year-old Egyptian statue valued at about £6m "could only be catastrophic". Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2014-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
'To Kill a Mockingbird,' the 1961 Pulitzer Prize winner that often appears on 'most-loved books' lists, has been released as an ebook for a new generation of readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Disney Publishing Worldwide is launching Disney Story Central, an online portal of interactive titles for kids aged 3-7. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Distinguished children’s author Allan Ahlberg [pictured] has declined the inaugural... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
After writing a letter to readers calling on them to ask the e-tailer to end its sales terms dispute with Hachette, Preston posted an updated version of the note, complete with the signatures he has collected from other authors. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author C J Flood and editor Venetia Gosling have won this year’s Branford Boase Award,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The success of John Green and Veronica Roth has lifted the children's market in the USA to a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]