The biggest change, set to take effect in 2015, is that English-language and American exhibitors will move from their longtime home in Hall 8.0, closer to “the heart of the action” in Halls 6.0 and 4.0. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Charity The Prison Reform Trust has said new prison regulations, which ban books, as well as... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
English PEN in partnership with Foyles has launched a new website which celebrates contemporary... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Little, Brown is to publish an “exceptionally beautiful and inspiring visual memoir”... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ten Speed Press has teamed up with crowdsourced culinary website Food52 to launch a new cookbook imprint, Food52 Works. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hodder Children’s Books plans to reach new audiences with HodderSilver, a digital-only list... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Harper Lee gives her permission to issue her classic novel To Kill A Mockingbird as an audio book and ebook. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2014-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Max Brooks, author of "The Harlem Hellfighters" (Broadway Books, 9780307464972), will appear on "Conan" on TBS on Tuesday, April 29. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) has reinstated Sage’s membership... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Andrew Solomon’s Far From the Tree: A Dozen Kinds of Love (Chatto & Windus) has won... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
László Krasznahorkai was awarded the 2014 Best Translated Book Award for fiction for "Seiobo There Below." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barb Burg, who started her career in publicity in 1986 at Bantam Books and rose to become senior v-p and director of publicity and public relations for Bantam Doubleday Dell, died April 29. She was 50. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
German publisher Bastei Lubbe is the latest overseas publisher to use digital distribution to enter the U.S. market. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Humble Bundle, the website that bundles digital content and offers it to consumers for whatever they wish to pay, is teaming with Image Comics to offer its first all-graphic novel digital bundle. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Time Home Entertainment, the book publishing arm of Time Inc., is moving the U.S. sales and marketing of its trade list to sister company Time Warner Retail Sales and Marketing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
EdX, the nonprofit online learning initiative, has selected the VitalSource Bookshelf e-textbook platform to distribute publisher content for its massive open online learning courses (MOOCs). \ Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Authors Guild is offering legal assistance to any MacAdam Cage author who wishes to mount a legal challenge to the agreement giving control of their ebook rights to MP Publishing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
In a blistering opposition motion, 33 state attorneys have made their feelings known to the Second Circuit: Apple, they say, is blatantly stonewalling. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
At Chronicle Books, Sarah Golski has been promoted to managing editor of the lifestyle group. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
William Heinemann is to publish a book looking at productivity and why “some people seem to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]