Richard Dawkins has defended his views on fairy tales on the BBC World Service, following reports... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Religion publishers were busy during BookExpo America's three-day run in New York May 29-31. Their participation seems to have stabilized--there were no new dropouts, and some publishers have returned after taking breaks over costs vs. benefits, finding the show valuable after all. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Judge Denise Cote adopted a proposed schedule for Apple’s Damages trial, officially moving the trial from July 14 to August 25. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google is launching a programmatic video marketplace that it says will only include premium publishers and select brands. Neal Mohan, vp of display and video advertising, announced the video ad platform today at a DoubleClick customer conference. The marketplace is called Google Partner Select... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
News Corp co-chairman said competitors were 'irresponsible' to talk about a time when it would stop printing newspapers The co-chairman of News Corp, Lachlan Murdoch, has mounted a strong defence of the future of newspapers in the digital age while condemning his Australian competitors for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Printed books will be outsold by ebooks by 2018, a new report by Pricewaterhouse Coopers suggests. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sedef Ilgiç, a literary agent at the Kalem Agency in Turkey, on selling Turkish books to publishers abroad and representing international authors in Turkey. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lobbyists for the music industry and streaming music services are gearing up to battle one another after the Justice Department said it will review decades-old agreements that govern songwriter royalties.The review, which follows court battles between rights holders and Pandora internet radio,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Dynamite Entertainment has agreements to publish graphic novel adaptations based on the books and characters of acclaimed novelists Brandon Sanderson, Dean Koontz, Patricia Briggs, Jim Butcher and the late Ernest Tidyman, author of the Shaft novels. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Not even the final installment of Cassandra Clare's popular Mortal Instruments series, "City of Heavenly Fire" (out May 27), could bump John Green's "The Fault in Our Stars" from the top spot on Apple's iBooks bestseller list. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House Children’s UK - the new PRH childrens division incorporating both... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Britt Wilson's slapstick fantasy 'Cat Dad, King of the Goblins' kicks off Koyama Press's new line of kids comics. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Margaret Ferguson has edited children’s books for over 30 years, and is now the publisher of Margaret Ferguson Books/Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers. She talked with three-time Caldecott Honor winner and MacArthur Fellow Peter Sís, about the process of editing a picture book and how... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
In his testimony, Wiley president and CEO Stephen Smith said Supreme Court’s 2013 ruling in Kirtsaeng has hobbled the publishers’ ability to sell textbooks abroad, and suggested a legislative fix. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Freight Books has acquired rights to a debut novel by Scottish food writer Sue Lawrence. Adrian... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
In its 15th annual report, total book revenue in the U.S. is projected to rise to $37.04bn in 2018, and China will become the second largest book market in 2017. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Roger Tagholm bids a poetic adieu to Random House's iconic colophon, which has been replaced by a new text-based 'global identity.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon’s Jet City Comics imprint is serializing the comics adaptation of sci-fi novelist Hugh Howey’s 'Wool' simultaneously on Comixology and Amazon. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amy Einhorn, who recently left her eponymous imprint at Penguin Random House, is joining Macmillan’s Flatiron Books imprint as senior v-p and publisher. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
J K Rowling has returned to her theme of the destructive powers of the press in the second Robert... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]