Amazon.com Inc. is offering authors caught up in its dispute with Hachette Book Group all proceeds from the sale of any digital book, seeking to bypass the publisher and appeal directly to writers.Amazon sent a letter to authors, including Douglas Preston, proposing to extract them from the spat... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 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 ]
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 ]
HarperCollins Children’s Books is celebrating the publication of the final Skulduggery... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins has launched a redesigned website that features a direct sales component. Through the website the publisher has, for the first time, the ability to sell print books directly to consumers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
J K Rowling has written a new piece about a thirty-something Harry Potter and his friends at the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Stay up to date on all the latest news coming out of San Diego Comic Con 2014 with Publishers Weekly—daily updates, podcasts and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The use of social media and consumer insight do not "replace our gut instinct", The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The judges have winnowed down 10,000 entries to the top five. Consumers vote on the grand prize winner from today through July 18. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Wattpad, an online writing and reading community, has acquired the Red Room, an online community originally described as a “Facebook for authors.” The site will be subsumed into Wattpad. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Rachel Held Evans has long had an issue with the typical evangelical Christian interpretation of Proverbs 31, believing that paean of biblical womanhood has reduced generations of Christian women to shame, despair, and fatigue. But instead of trying to fight the ideal of womanhood set forth in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
FarFaria, a subscription app for iPad providing unlimited access to kids’ content for $3.99 a month, has inked a deal to offer 17 HarperCollins’ titles and has expanded support for the iPhone. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Eric Ligman, Microsoft Senior Sales Excellence Manager, has released a whole new batch of free ebooks, covering topics such as Windows 8 and 8.1, Windows 7, Office 2013 and Office 365, Azure, Lync 2013, and SQL Server. There are ebooks and resource guides for all things Microsoft. For the past... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
In pre-Kindle days I once weighed myself down with more than dozen books after spending half a day in Powell's "city of books" in Portland, Oregon.People still enjoy cruising the miles of shelves in that wonderful monument to the era of print. By contrast, readers have been deserting the print... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Some 'old guard' authors are joining forces in a letter criticizing Amazon, even as a cluster of self-published authors is rallying around Amazon, charging that traditional publishers like Hachette mistreat authors and readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Some 'old guard' authors are joining forces in a letter criticizing Amazon, even as a cluster of self-published authors is rallying around Amazon, charging that traditional publishers like Hachette mistreat authors and readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Becky Green has been promoted to v-p, director, children’s retail sales, Random House Children’s Books. She was previously the division's v-p. national accounts. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
As things stand, Hachette is making ebook discounts impossible, and almost everybody else stands to lose, writes Hugh HoweyNews: New Amazon terms amount to 'assisted suicide' for book industry, experts claimHow much should an ebook cost? And how should that money be split? These two questions... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
After I recommended My Struggle to a friend, she texted, “What if a woman wrote it?” I wrote back, “or an American?” and I began to wonder what would happen if the literary sensation were written not by the handsome Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard but by Carla Olivia Krauss of Cobble Hill,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Five-year-old Lydia Port-Burke has self-published a fairy tale now available in the UK. Proceeds for the book will go to BBC Children in Need. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]