Get ready to drink deep from the fountain of knowledge. As he's done in years past, Microsoft senior sales excellence manager Eric Ligman has compiled a veritable flood of free Microsoft ebooks and other resources, offering up nearly 300 gratis guides for your reading pleasure.To be fair, most... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2014-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
J.K. Rowling recently released a short story about the futures of such characters as Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger, while the new section of Universal Studios titled The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Diagon Alley just opened to the public. J.K. Rowling also recently... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The History Press has sold its US subsidiary to the American local history company Arcadia... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon.com Inc. is offering authors caught up in its dispute with Hachette Book Group all of the proceeds from the sale of any digital book, seeking to bypass the publisher and appeal directly to the... To view the full story, click the title link. Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2014-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Beyond John Green and Veronica Roth: James Thurber compiled his own list of books that he thought young adults might enjoy, and his picks still hold up today. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
On June 25, SheKnows introduced its Explorer platform, which it has been testing since early this year. In addition to the SheKnows network of verticals, 40 other publishers (including Time Inc. and ESPN) have integrated the content curation widget onto their sites, at no charge. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2014-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Carlton Garborg, former president of Summerside Press and Ellie Claire, has launched a new venture, Broadstreet Publishing. The house is also developing a new Bible translation. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon.com Inc. is offering authors caught up in its dispute with Hachette Book Group all of the proceeds from the sale of any digital book, seeking to bypass the publisher and appeal directly to the... To view the full story, click the title link. Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2014-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins Children’s Books is celebrating the publication of the final Skulduggery... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Green notched up his fourth consecutive week as the Official UK Top 50 number one whilst... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ebook sales for the Conservative MP in May topped 100,000, ahead of John Green and Jo NesboDigested read: The Four Streets by Nadine DorriesExtract: The Four StreetsNadine Dorries' first novel, a "heartbreaking family saga set in 1950s Liverpool", has sold more than 100,000 copies, according to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
A change to a policy at Conde Nast that affects major beauty advertisers is sending waves of anxiety through some of its largest magazines, including Vogue and Glamour.Referred to internally as the "beauty rotation," the policy long dictated the order in which ads from Revlon, Estee Lauder,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The war of words between Amazon and Hachette US escalated overnight, after Amazon offered authors... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new display at the recently refurbished bookshop at the British Museum in London, The Wheel of Books, has become a tourist attraction for literati. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
'Unbroken,' Laura Hillenbrand’s testament to the spirit of Louis Zamperini, jumped to the #2 slot after Zamperini’s recent death, returning to Apple’s iBooks Bestseller List for the week ending July 7. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The stand-off between the internet retail giant and the publishing corporation has drawn both sides into open contention over commercial termsThe extraordinary stand-off between Amazon and Hachette saw battle lines further entrenched on Tuesday as both parties took to the public arena to insult... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Al Manhal, the UAE-based Arabic digital education publisher, is now offer paperback editions of its work worldwide via Amazon marketplace. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Frank Schaeffer is an atheist who prays every day. After 22 books with traditional publishers--some of them bestsellers--he's decided to self-publish his newest, which is sure to stir controversy. But that's nothing new for the former evangelical Christian. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The acrimony between Amazon and Hachette does not appear to waning. And their battle, over ebook sales terms, continues to play out in newspaper headlines. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
At Norton, Elizabeth Riley has been promoted to senior publicity director. Rachel Salzman and Erin Lovett have also been promoted to publicity directors. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]