This past year I served on the selection committee for the American Library Association’s Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction & Nonfiction—a task I undertook with a good amount of dread. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster has won an auction for Letters to the Lost by Iona Grey. Clare Hey, senior... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
It’s BEA time again, and we can’t wait—for all of it: the tote bags, the crowds snaking through the aisles for James Patterson’s latest, the cafeteria food, the bathroom lines, the name tags, the debut authors dizzy with success, and, most of all, the coveted galleys. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hodder and Stoughton has acquired three books that are sequels to a series “which inspired... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
The announcement that Amazon intends to buy Comixology has raised a number of questions from consumers, publishers and retailers. Here are seven big questions about the future of digital comics on Comixology and Amazon. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Some publishers use BEA as an opportunity to showcase an entire catalogue’s worth of ARCs; others focus their giveaways on just a few key titles. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers must improve the quality of their paperback output and “up-price”, if the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
"Fran," Jim Woodring’s “hypnotic and subliminal” wordless graphic novel, has been awarded the Lynd Ward Prize for Graphic Novel of the Year for 2014. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
As soon as Arthur Frommer bought back his namesake brand from Google a year ago, he and his daughter Pauline, who is now copublisher and a 50% partner in Frommer Media, quickly got to work on the first new line of guide books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
This year’s PW Rep of the Year award winner, Teresa Rolfe Kravtin, a commission rep with Southern Territory Associates since 2002, owes it all to Faith—or at least a good part of it. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
As Joe Fox told Kathleen Kelly in You’ve Got Mail, it would be a shame to miss New York in the spring—particularly New York City’s bookstores. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Very few comic strip creators can match Keith Knight for production and overall cultural hilarity. PW spoke with "Keef" about growing his brand and online platform. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ahead of Time Inc.'s impending spin-off later this quarter, Time Warner announced the makeup of the 10-member board that will oversee the publishing giant once it officially goes public on its own. Time Inc. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2014-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
This week, love and other foreign words, inside the ocean, and malevolent rabbits. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Annabelle Gurwitch, author of "I See You Made an Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50" (Blue Rider, 9780399166181), will appear on "Real Time with Bill Maher" on Friday, April 25. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
The winners were announced at a ceremony at the New School in New York City on April 24. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
"Be generous to your characters: kill them, save them, break their hearts and then heal them." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
America’s premier book event, BookExpo America, continues to evolve, and is in every way reflective of the evolving industry it serves. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hilary Bradt and her former husband George Bradt became book publishers by accident, writing their first travel guide on a river barge floating down a tributary of the Amazon while vacationing in Peru in 1974. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
An analysis of the digital and print sales of seven companies between 2011 and 2013 provides more evidence that the days of rapidly rising ebook sales, and plunging print sales, are likely over for the trade book market. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]