Bloomsbury has signed a non-fiction book on the building of the Brooklyn Bridge from former Times... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jennifer Buhl, author of "Shooting Stars: My Unexpected Life Photographing Hollywood’s Most Famous" (Sourcebooks, 9781402297007), will appear on "Entertainment Tonight" on Monday, March 31. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ted Hughes' widow Carol has withdrawn her co-operation on a biography of the poet by academic... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Beginning April 1, St. Martin’s Press will take over the publication of the Palgrave Macmillan Trade list of nonfiction titles in the areas of humanities, social science, and business. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
This year Comic and Cartoon Art Week, a series of comics-related events starting April 1 in New York City, will serve as an introduction to the MoCCA Arts Fest, an annual festival of small press comics, held April 5 and 6 at the Lexington Avenue Amory. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tim Waterstone, the founder of the Waterstone's book shop chain, predicts that the "ebook revolution" will soon go into decline in the UK. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2014-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
His new novel, "The Turning," may bring exactly that for T. Davis Bunn: a turning to a new platform and new audiences for his Christian suspense fiction. It will also provide him with a new medium--he'll be teaching lessons drawn from the book on Moody Radio, a unique opportunity for a novelist. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
At Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson, Chad Cannon has been promoted to v-p of marketing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Imprisoned Chinese economist and writer Ilham Tohti, who was arrested in his Beijing home in January, is being honored with the 2014 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Andrews McMeel Publishing signed an agreement with Vegan Heritage Press for sales, distribution and fulfillment in the U.S., Canada, and open market for eight titles. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
The event is set for Wednesday, April 2, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 pm, at the New York Academy of Sciences, located at 7 World Trade Center. Registration is still open. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Freedom of speech charity English PEN has warned that the government could be acting illegally by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
A ballet based on the life and works of Virginia Woolf will premiere next year, forming a central... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Comic + Cartoon Art Week; MoCCA Arts Fest 2014; Middle East Film & Comic Con; Freak Scene East; University of Florida Comics Conference Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Reader's Digest is alleged to have censored stories in its publication to maintain a cheap publishing deal in ChinaThe notion that the formerly mighty American publisher Reader's Digest would allow the Chinese Communist party to censor its novels would once have appeared so outrageous as to be... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nobel laureate was told by publisher that 'people will shudder and be puzzled and confused' by reading Echo's BonesA previously unpublished story by Samuel Beckett will go on sale in bookshops for the first time, 80 years after his publisher rejected it as a nightmare read that gave him "the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Teachers, parents and poets alike know how children thirst for poetry. Now it's up to booksellers and publishers to save it from extinctionChildren dive into poetry with the same natural ease as swimmers into water, climbers into trees and sleepers into dreams. I've seen this alchemy at work on... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
The struggles of print media are far from over, but the first quarter of 2014 has been a particularly upbeat period for the magazine business, and not just because 35 titles launched, compared with... To view the full story, click the title link. Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2014-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jet City Comics, Amazon Publishing’s graphic novel and comics imprint, has released the cover art for the first three issues of "Wool: The Graphic Novel," the comics adaptation of author Hugh Howey’s bestselling, self-published science-fiction novel. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The struggles of print media are far from over, but the first quarter of 2014 has been a particularly upbeat period for the magazine business, and not just because 35 titles launched, compared with... To view the full story, click the title link. Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2014-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]