Time magazine has announced several staff changes to its editorial team: • Tom Weber has been promoted to executive editor. He was previously serving as assistant managing editor. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2014-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Katherine Rundell’s novel Rooftoppers (Faber and Faber) has been crowned the overall winner... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Liberty Media Corp. has sold most of its stake in Barnes & Noble to what the company called “qualified institutional buyers.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers Group West has signed mind-body-spirit publisher Divine Arts to its list of clients. The deal went into effect April 1. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
At the 2014 FAME Awards, hosted early this morning at New York’s Yale Club, FOLIO: and min recognized the best in magazine events and honored this year’s class of Hall of Fame inductees. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2014-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
At Hachette India, Poulomi Chatterjee has been appointed editorial director to replace Nandita Aggarwal, who is leaving to pursue personal projects. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michael Tamblyn, chief content officer at ebook retailer Kobo and a member of the Kobo founding executive team, has been named president in addition to his duties as the company’s chief content officer. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
“We used to get our news from a couple of anchormen," noted Forbes CEO Mike Perlis in his OnCopyright 2014 keynote. "That’s not the world we live in any more." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Jason Hewitt treated his guests to an unusual “immersive theatre” launch for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
DC Entertainment’s list of serialized superhero comics will now be available for sale on Google Play along with digital editions of DC and Vertigo original graphic novels and collected editions. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Press imprint Allen Lane is to publish Good Morning, Mr Mandela, a memoir by the late... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Erica Kochman Warshal, director of national accounts at Abrams, passed away suddenly on March 31. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
London publishers are turning down work they consider “too Scottish”, the chair of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Grace Kendall is joining Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers on April 7 as an editor. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
James Patterson and Marshall Karp's "NYPD Red 2," and "Shadow Spell," by Nora Roberts, were new to the top ten on Apple's iBooks bestseller list for the week ended March 31. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Naja is a smooth, contemporary update on pulp noir by French comics masters Morvan and Bengal. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
In testimony delivered before a House subcommittee, AG counsel Jan Constantine recapped the AG’s long running copyright dispute with Google and offered one possible solution—a collective licensing agreement for digital presentation rights to out-of-print books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Canongate has confirmed it is the publisher for a series of children's books by controversial... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author and illustrator Jarrett J. Krosoczka will host the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression's 2014 children's book art auction and reception at BookExpo America. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jason Sudeikis and Rebecca Hall star in a romantic comedy centered around a real-life Maine bookstore. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]