Over the past few years, there’s been an explosion in attendance and enthusiasm for comic book conventions around the world. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ad pages are down again, but the MPA insists there's reason to be optimistic about the Q1 PIB numbers it released earlier this week. Travel (9 percent) and beauty (4 percent) were among the top performing major magazine categories, hedging a 4-percent drop overall. The fall is an improvement... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2014-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
This week, Elizabeth McCracken's outstanding story collection, a true story of a changing brain, and a toy figurine with hidden meaning. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
New England is home not only to some of the oldest and largest university presses in the U.S. but to one of the most unique ones—University Press of New England, which represents a consortium of four colleges and universities. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Born to a family of readers, Christen Karniski comes by her love of books naturally. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
After negotiations for a better lease fell through, Left Bank Books in St. Louis is closing its 5,500-square-foot downtown location as of May 31. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Since the demise of Noodle Kidoodle and Zany Brainy in the early 2000s, specialty “book-and-toy” stores have maintained a low profile. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
New England may cull up images of bucolic fields, snow-covered mountains, sparkling lakes, and mud season, but it’s also home to a veritable who’s who of bestselling authors ranging from Stephen King, Dan Brown and Henry Louis Gates Jr. to Mary Oliver and Julia Glass. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jonas Jonasson’s The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden debuted on Spain’s fiction chart at #1 during March. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Part of the region’s success in the book world is due to deeply committed men and women from all parts of the industry. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Boston-based Beacon Press, the area’s oldest small press, is marking its 160th anniversary this year with a new tag line, “Igniting Hearts and Minds,” and a new colophon that hearkens back to early last century. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
As early as this August, Boston could become the first American city with a Literary Cultural District. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
New England booksellers long have been in the bookselling forefront: from founding the first regional bookselling group more than four decades ago (the New England Independent Booksellers Association) and the paperback revolution (Paperback Booksmith) to computerized inventory systems... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s purchase of John Wiley’s cookbook and reference lines in November 2012 gave a big boost to overall sales at the HMH trade publishing group, but it’s not the only New England publisher with sales that are cooking. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Roz Chast is grasping for a word, her hands raised as if to catch it between her palms, as she tries to describe what it felt like to have finished her new book, "Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?" (Bloomsbury, May). Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
After months of uncertainty, efforts by former authors of MacAdam Cage, the now-defunct San Francisco independent publishing house, to retrieve the print rights to their books appear close to a resolution. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
New England is home to a number of large and mid-size publishers—the headquarters for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt are there, as is Perseus’s Da Capo Press and part of one of the big five trade houses, Hachette. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Marvel has released the Ms. Marvel comic book #3, Side Entrance. PW spoke with its author, G. Willow Wilson, about her unique superhero. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
For more than a decade, PW’s annual fast-growing independent press feature has included a number of New England–based publishers, with 30-year-old Chelsea Green Publishing leading the way. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Subscription ebook service Oyster is teaming with Spritz, the speed-reading venture, to offer Stephen Covey’s self-help bestseller, "The 7 Habits of High Effective People," for free in the Spritz format. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]