Row between world's largest distributor of books and publisher over ebook royalties shows no sign of being resolvedAmazon has advised readers to buy from other retailers after breaking its silence over a high-profile dispute with the publisher Hachette, which has drawn in the British authors Ian... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Dispute has also dragged in authors including JK Rowling and James PattersonIt is another mystery for inspector Rebus to solve. Why is Amazon UK selling Saints of the Shadow Bible, the latest instalment of Ian Rankin's best-selling series about the Edinburgh sleuth, for half the price being... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
With Amazon's Tuesday evening blog post that it doesn't expect its dispute with the Hachette Book Group to end any time soon, the standoff between the company and one of its vendors is once again showing just how much leverage the online giant enjoys in the book marketplace. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
The usually reticent Amazon has spoken out over its terms stand-off with Hachette Book Group in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Madefire, The Berkeley, CA-based digital media company known for producing partially animated “Motion Book” comics has added four more publishers to their lineup. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
The grants are part of a million-dollar giveaway by James Patterson to independent booksellers who promote children’s books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon.com said it is "not optimistic" that a dispute with publisher Hachette Book Group will be resolved soon and added that it is acting "on behalf of customers."The comments, which Amazon made yesterday in an online post, are the first extensive remarks by the world's largest online retailer... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Conde Nast, publisher of Vogue and The New Yorker, has asked its editors and publishers to review a roughly 4,000-word document that lays out how the company will handle native advertising online, according to several Conde Nast executives.The document's aim is to give publishers and editors who... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ingram Content Group is partnering with Edelweiss, the parent company of Above the Treeline, to create print-on-demand catalogues for publishers. ATT CEO John Rubin sees three markets for the POD service: publishers who have moved mainly to digital catalogues, but have accounts that would... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michael Waldman, author of "The Second Amendment: A Biography" (Simon & Schuster, 9781476747446), will appear on the "Diane Rehm Show" on Thursday, May 29. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
The author and activist Maya Angelou, who died at her home in North Carolina, is best known for her 1969 autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" (Random House). Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
"Gone Girl" author Gillian Flynn joins a cast of contemporary writers signed up to pen retellings of Shakespeare classics for Hogarth. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oscar Dystel, an early pioneer of mass market paperbacks and one-time CEO of Bantam Books, passed away at the age of 101. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Poet and author Dr Maya Angelou has died aged 86. Angelou, whose I Know Why the Caged Bird... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Creation myths about entrepreneurs inevitably include tales of triumph over adversity—a failed early company here, a break with a long-term partner there. Richard Branson, the goateed and grinning mascot of British capitalism, is no different. His Virgin empire grew from a record label that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2014-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Reservoir Square Books, which will publish titles that cover a range of general interest subjects, will release its first list in fall 2015. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
U.S attorneys argued that evidence of a price-fixing agreement was "overwhelming," and that Apple has identified "no sound reason" to reject Cote's finding. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Chris Grimm will join Kensington as director of sales, effective June 16. He was most recently v-p of sales at Globe Pequot. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Like a lot of covers Field & Stream has put out over the last 119 years, the May issue of the magazine shows a camo-clad hunter, bow in hand, looking ready to prowl off into the wilderness. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2014-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Two scholarships were granted at the $10,000 level, and 51 at the $3,500 level for current bookstore employees or owners and their dependents, or formers Borders Group employees and dependents. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]