At ICM Partners, Alexandra Machinist has joined the agency’s publications department led by Sloan Harris and Esther Newberg. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon began its retail life as an online book distributor, though it's something we rarely consider the company now -- unless you choose to count digital versions for Kindle and Kindle apps. However, a thriving market for textbooks exists and that has become a recent focus for the company --... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2014-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Homeless busker James Bowen was helped in his struggle against addiction by the companionship of a stray cat. Now his books charting their friendship have propelled him into an elite publishing clubSamuel Johnson used to buy oysters for his cat, Hodge; Charles Dickens was so distressed when his... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new report from BookNet Canada released on Monday, tracking the digital publishing programs of the country's publishers, has found that 90% have ebook programs. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
In a comics marketplace crowded with works by The Big Two, is there room for another superhero universe, let alone another superhero publisher? Dark Horse publisher Mike Richardson thinks so. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Digital publishing is rapidly becoming a haven for struggling writers—but it turns out the format might hold similar potential for struggling readers too. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2014-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Syndicate publisher, and sole staffer, Paul Oliver, also happens to be the director of marketing and Publicity for Soho Press and has no plans to leave Soho with the launch of his new micro-publisher. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
According to a report from BookNet Canada, "Canadian publishers have adapted to the appetite for digital reading and embraced ebook publishing as a new norm." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
JK Rowling, Philip Pullman, Jeanette Winterson and tens of other authors have signed a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The manager of Vroman’s Hastings Ranch store since 2002 passed away March 14 after a long battle with cancer. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Cooperative Children's Book Center of the University of Wisconsin – Madison found that of the new children's books they received at their center, less than 3 percent focused on black people and even fewer were by black authors (about 2 percent, according to the CCBC.) Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
For a 97-year-old magazine publisher, Forbes is no shrinking violet. CEO and president Mike Perlis on why the critics have got it wrong.The post Why Forbes sees a platform approach building its brand, not diluting it appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2014-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The advent of digital publishing technology and ebooks has created opportunities for home-based publishersThe world of publishing was once the preserve of very large organisations, huge publishing houses with massive production infrastructures and costs, that kept smaller niche publishers on the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
More than 200 – from JK Rowling to Rowan Williams – feature in Hacked Off ad supporting watchdog rejected by publishersMore than 200 leading figures from the arts and academia, including writers, film-makers, actors, comics and broadcasters, have signed a declaration of support for a system of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
This week Porter Anderson sets up an #EtherIssue discussion on the market implications of bargain-basement book prices and looks at Kobo's fight for Agency. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Perseus Book Group is expanding its agreement with Oyster, the ebook subscription service, and will make an additional 4,000 titles available to Oyster subscribers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
"The Book Show", a new series hosted by presenter James Whale for Information.TV, will... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Historian and professor Allen C. Guelzo's winning book was "Gettysburg: The Last Invasion." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Does your agent constantly reject your manuscript about a teen wizard who falls in love with a vampire and has to fight for their life in a televised death zone? Barnes & Noble feels your pain, and is opening up the Nook Press self-publishing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2014-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
In an earlier version of our story on HarperCollins' victory in its copyright infringement suit against Open Road, we mistakenly put the damages as applying per copy, rather per work infringed. In fact, there is a single infringement infringement in this case, not multiple infringements per copy... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]