Acclaimed manga artist Moyoco Anno is best known as one of the most influential creators in the josei manga genre—Japanese comics aimed at older women. She talked with PW about her life life creating manga, women in Japan and life married to a Japanese pop culture star, when you’re a pop culture... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Anna Soler-Pont reports that as publishers have endured the recession, literary translations take backseat, while piracy still hampers ebook adoption in Spain. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
"Invisible," by James Patterson and David Ellis, was the second best selling book in Apple's iBooks store for the week ended June 30. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google has launched a new site, CookieChoices.org, to help visitors of European sites learn more about the digital breadcrumbs they leave behind through cookies.The site includes code that publishers can use to incorporate notifications into their own sites and apps. The notifications could take... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook’s most recently published study is not unique. This is a call to action. We should work together to demand that companies promise not to make us involuntary accomplices in corporate activities that compromise other people’s autonomy and trust. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
In appeal filings last week, lawyers for Simon & Schuster and Macmillan contend that Judge Denise Cote's injunction against Apple has made a timely return to a “no-discount” agency model for ebooks all but impossible. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lauren Child, Michael Morpurgo and Benjamin Zephaniah are some of the big-name authors appearing... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The idea of brands becoming publishers has been around for a couple years, as businesses have en masse created social media pages and content blogs to promote their wares. But few companies applied the concept as literally as Johnson & Johnson with its BabyCenter website, which actually... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Predictions that the e-reader is done seem to be everywhere. What do those forecasts really mean for the publishing industry? Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
After many years as a distribution-only client of Penguin, Kensington Publishing has inked an expanded sales and distribution agreement with the newly combined Penguin Random Publisher Services, the Penguin Random House distribution unit. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hoping to appeal to different audiences, Berkley intends to release one of its major summer releases, "Virgin" by Radhika Sanghani, with two covers and two ISBNs. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent publishers And Other Stories and Penned in the Margins have been included for the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent Publishers Group has struck deals with six new publishers—two under IPG Distribution, and four under Trafalgar Square Publishing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
IBM has found a new partner for its supercomputer called Watson: Bon Appetit magazine.Together the companies are introducing the beta version of a web-based cooking app on Monday that taps Watson, which beat two human contestants on "Jeopardy" in 2011, to create a new recipe every time someone... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Corsair has signed two new novels from Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jennifer Egan. It is one... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writing for the Financial Times, Julian Baggini examined some of the latest research, which he argues, is forcing us to 'rethink how we respond to the written word.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, children & teens, and more for the week ended June 22, 2014. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Will the bright, imaginative, tech savvy, book reading (or content devouring) twentysomething choose Gollancz or Google, Faber or Facebook, Orion or O2? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook and two outside social scientists recently published a scientific paper in which they revealed that they had manipulated users’ news feeds to tweak their emotions. Since then, there has been a growing debate over the ethics and practice of Facebook experimenting on its users, as... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2014-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Facebook researcher apologized after conducting an experiment that temporarily influenced what almost 700,000 readers saw on their news feeds, reviving some customers' concerns about privacy issues.The number of positive and negative comments that users saw on their feeds of articles and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]