The outcome of the current Amazon/Hachette pricing war has implications for the entire publishing industry, Wharton experts and others say. Continue reading >> [ Source: Knowledge@Wharton | 2014-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
A first look at Raina Telgemeier's eagerly awaited "Sisters," which explores the complicated feelings that follow when the author gets a baby sister. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The owners of Tell Me a Story in Enfield, Conn., and Monte Cristo Bookshop in New London, Conn., are ready to move on after less than two years in business. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hillary Clinton's "Hard Choices" failed to crack the top five on Apple's iBooks bestseller list for the week ended June 16. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The settlement brings an end to one of the biggest and longest-lasting legal cases of the ebook era. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette UK has restructured its sales operation, creating two sales teams, resulting in the loss of a respected and much-loved director and up to 20 jobs. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Seven new and notable comics-related projects that are worthy of attention—or support, including "transmedia" storytelling, a "Cringe"-worthy collection, Tezuka on Mars, and the truth behind the fall of Rome. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
On a weekend that saw three regional comics-themed shows, ReedPop launched Special Edition, a new, smaller comics show that is an "event concept" and is likely to be used as model for launching smaller comics shows around the country. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new publication about soccer--and nothing but--tries to be as visually dazzling as the game itself. Sketch Remembering the 1949 plane crash that killed the dominant Italian club team Torino A.C. meant a more sullen depiction. "That took just one sketch to make the finished product," Priest... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2014-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
German news publishers are escalating their fight to get a cut of the ad revenue that Google makes when it republishes parts of their news articles.The publishers’ society VG Media has started legal proceedings against Google after the search-engine giant refused to negotiate with the collecting... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2014-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Illustrator Axel Scheffler has painted a bench for the National Literacy Trust’s (NLT)... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple has avoided an $800 million bill from a clutch of US states and other complainants by reaching an out of court settlement in a controversial price-fixing case. The settlement, the terms of which are yet to be revealed, still has to be ratified by the court and both sides involved in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2014-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bertelsmann is to close its German-language book club business because of a “decreasing... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oyster, the ebook subscription service, has launched a new version of its app that is available for Android devices as well as Amazon Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble Nook tablets. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2014-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tina Yang tutors children of non-English speaking immigrants and explains how YA novels, rather than classics, have engendered a deeper appreciation for reading. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The debut of Dreamworks' Awesomeness Ink imprint and a deal between Brand Bar and St. Martin's to represent a number of SMP's women fiction authors were some of the highlights coming out of the first day of Licensing Expo 2014. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
If you head over to iTunes and look for book pre-orders at $9.99 or less, you may notice something strange: they're all Hachette titles. That's no coincidence -- Amazon is delaying shipment on Hachette books right now, a negotiating tactic it calls... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2014-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
INscribe Digital will handle ebook distribution for the iconic children’s publishing and family media brand. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mitchell Beazley, part of Octopus Publishing Group, has commissioned a new cookbook from Saiphin... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Wiley & Sons reported that revenue for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2014 rose 1%, to $1.78 billion, and operating income increased 4% to $206.7 million. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]