We can't say we know all that many people who routinely digest articles posted through Medium's social publishing platform. However, the readership is bound to go up now that the service has released an iPhone app. The mobile client is more of a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2014-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
A visit to the Gwanghwamun branch of Kyobo, Korea’s largest bookstore chain, provides many clues to the country’s present book market. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
In contrast to last year’s booming comics marketplace, sales of graphic novels and comics periodicals in the early months of 2014 are down. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Campaigners and librarians' representatives have told an independent review of the state of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Exhibit A's editor Byron Quertermous has signed The City of NO by Matthew Funk, a crime novel... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
On March 13, the Pew Research Center published a “typology” that profiled Americans’ information- and tech-oriented behaviors, and their associated library use. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Little, Brown has signed five more titles in Frank Lampard’s Frankie’s Magic Football... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hillary Clinton spoke about her upcoming book at the Association of American Publishers' annual gathering. The work is scheduled to be released this June. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Clerkenwell Press has acquired world English rights in Gone to Ground, a true story of a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Penguin Random House deal to absorb Santillana's trade lines has serious implications for the Spanish-book market, but the outlier in the deal is Brazil. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nothing gets the work done faster, or makes the word travel further, than having the might of the government behind it or the united action of a group of individuals with shared interests. In the Korean publishing industry, such synergy is evident and has been very effective. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Consider these figures: This is the country with the fastest Internet speed in the world at 13.3 Mbps (against 8.7 Mbps in the U.S.), and 98% of its households have access to broadband Internet. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House Merger with Santillana will force the Brazilian operation to choose whether to stay or leave the powerful DLD digital distribution platform. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Twitter account run by "ExMediaMan" has taken aim at the supposed seedy underbelly of digital media.The post In the belly of the viral-publishing beast, @ExMediaMan tells all appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2014-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Despite improved performance in the fourth quarter, bookselling chain Books-A-Million reported a 5.5% decline in revenue to $470.2 million for the 52-week period ended February 1, 2014, down from the $498.4 million reported for the previous fiscal year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
As print advertising revenue erodes for the consumer magazine industry as a whole, there are titles finding success catering to pockets of readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2014-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ever since Janet Geddis launched one of the first bookstore crowdfunding campaigns in March 2010 to raise money to open Avid Bookshop in Athens, Ga., Indiegogo and, to a lesser extent, Kickstarter, have become the go-to places for cash-strapped booksellers trying to open a bookstore, add a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
When online bookstores came on the scene back in 1999, there were around 5,000 brick-and-mortar bookstores in Korea. Today, there are barely 1,500 nationwide. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
TV news show's newly-hired economics correspondent says he once had sympathy with ideas expounded by Oswald MosleyNewsnight's new economics correspondent has admitted to a "brief and misguided flirtation" with the far right just days after his appointment was seized upon as evidence of left-wing... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
A self-help guide to toilet etiquette, How to Poo on a Date, wins the Diagram Prize for the oddest book title of the year. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2014-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]