Sixty thousand is the number of copies Christina Baker Kline thought her newest book, "Orphan Train," might sell in her “wildest dreams.” For a midlist author on her fifth novel, it was a lofty number. It turns out, it was also way too low. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Green Apple named ‘PW’ Bookstore of The Year; Kravtin takes Rep of the Year Award and more in this week's publishing news briefs. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
The New York Public Library has launched a new online book recommendation engine powered by Bookish Recommends from New York digital startup Zola Books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Chatto & Windus has acquired a “genre-blending non-fiction” book by Lauren Elkin... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
IB Tauris has commissioned a book from author Richard Sakwa on the ongoing situation in Ukraine,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
In separate announcements, Nickelodeon Publishing and Blue Apple Books reached agreements to make their children’s titles available for sale through ebook retailer Kobo. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
In a move that will combine two privately held firms that specialize in creating custom course materials for higher education, XanEdu and SharedBook, which includes AcademicPub, its self-service coursepack division, will merge. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
For me, the Public Library Association (PLA) Conference—held every two years—is the single most important event for gauging where public libraries are headed. And this month’s event, held in Indianapolis, Ind. (March 11-15), didn’t disappoint. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
TOC Bologna may be no more, but book fair attendees had a chance to get several perspectives on the ongoing impact of changing technologies on children’s publishing at the fair's first Digital Rights Workshop. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Time Inc.’s People and WhoSay, a digital-only social magazine powered by the celebrities it features, have teamed to develop a new branding opportunity for stars and advertisers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2014-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
In a nod to the growing number of digital-first outlets recognized, the American Society of Magazine Editors took over Twitter on Thursday morning, tweeting out the Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2014-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
The publisher has occupied the NYC office space since 2006 and is now set to remain there through 2026. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
These days, it’s hard to cross the street in an urban center without bumping into a food truck. There are food truck guilds and food truck trackers. There are acclaimed chefs who got their start in the food truck business. Lucky Peach, the food magazine with hipster/intellectual cred, just... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2014-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sequential, the graphic novel retail app that specializes in literary comics, has added a selection of graphic novels from the New York indie comics publisher NBM. NBM will add ten titles to the Sequential list including works by Rick Geary, Stan Mack and Margreet de Heer. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fliboard Version Two Turns OneSocial news aggregator Flipboard celebrated the one-year anniversary of its "version two" app. More significant, the company announced that it has over 7 million user-generated magazines on its platform. Slate Goes Behind the Paywall Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2014-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
For going on a year, LinkedIn has been repositioning its ad business around content marketing. Now it's launching new tools to let advertisers see how they're faring as publishers within its walls.LinkedIn will now start assigning brands content-marketing scores to gauge the effectiveness of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Combative "Newsnight" presenter Jeremy Paxman will chair the judging panel for the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scribd has reached an agreement with Lonely Planet to add hundreds of its travel guides to the Scribd ebook subscription service. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
The BBC has axed "The Review Show", just two days after announcing a plan to put... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Verso Books is launching a new consumer offer, bundling DRM-free ebooks with all print purchases... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]