Authors, librarians and trade bodies have spoken out in support of the campaign to make school... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Taking its name from the printing term, fore edge— which refers to the part of a book that faces inward when the book is shelved, opposite the spine—a new imprint for national trade titles from University Press of New England is launching. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
The power of the imagination was the theme of the Children's Book and Author Breakfast Friday morning, beginning with the awarding of the WNBA Pannell Awards to this year's winners: Devaney Doak & Garrett Booksellers in Framingham, Maine, in the general bookstore category, and 4 Kids Books... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
YouTube publisher ERB is back with another showdown, and this time it's between one of DC Comics' leading superheroes and one of manga's famed protagonists. Goku vs. Superman has got to be one of the nerdiest rap-offs ever created for the Epic Rap Battles of History series—and that's saying a... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
In his second novel, The Book of Joe (2004), Jonathan Tropper wrote about a novelist who fears the “sophomore slump” after his debut book becomes a huge bestseller and is adapted into a film.Fast forward a decade, and Tropper’s fiction becomes reality. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Philip Gulley writes about what he knows: a smalltown Quaker pastor who serves and loves imperfectly, but who always points others to God. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
The chills in The Three (Little, Brown, May), Sarah Lotz’s debut novel written on her own and under her own name, begin with the scary description of a plane crash in Japan. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Literary agent Carmen Balcells —the super agent of the Spanish-language literary world — has agreed to merge her agency with that of Andrew 'The Jackal' Wylie. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Woodland Media, which provides logistics and supply chain products for publishers, announced that it will open a new office in Hong Kong. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
For readers of all ages and interests, there were no shortages of titles to grab, snag, and talk about. YA continues to generate long lines and lots of attention. At Simon & Schuster, one of the big teen titles was Scott Westerfeld's Afterworlds—and not just because BEA factors into the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
As questions continue to swirl about Hillary Clinton’s potential run for the presidency in 2016, her still-unpublished book, "Hard Choices" (Simon & Schuster), was the most buzzed about title on social media in May. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Octopus imprint Conran Octopus will publish a series of books from Condé Nast's House &... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
As reported by "Folio," the nation's number two magazine distributor is shutting down. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
An Emmy Award winner and talk show host pioneer, Dick Cavett is back with his fourth book, Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks (Random House, Nov.). Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Every Sunday in the New York Times Book Review, Pamela Paul does a q&a interview with an author in the popular “By the Book” feature. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Both the Publishers Weekly Stock Index and the Dow Jones Industrial Average eked out lackluster gains of 0.8% in May. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ten years ago, after completing his critically acclaimed Ben Franklin biography, Walter Isaacson was struck by Franklin’s creation of the postal and publishing networks. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scott Blackwood’s evocative novel See How Small (Little, Brown, Dec.), in which three teenage girls are murdered in a small Texas town, achieves such a multilayered narrative effect that even its author has a tough time pigeonholing the book’s genre. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
It was a circuitous and unexpected road that led Amanda Palmer to become an author. Best known as one-half of the punk duo the Dresden Dolls, Palmer had already expanded her creative world to include songwriter, playwright, and blogger. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Not every book opens with a page featuring a scrawled handwritten blurb from Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]