One week after news broke that Penguin Books India had recalled and destroyed Wendy Doniger’s "The Hindus" the negative fall out continues. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pocklington - nicknamed Pock - is a small market town in the Yorkshire Wolds, about 13 miles (or 21 kms) from the city of York.Its population of 8,337 is served by a weekly newspaper, the Pocklington Post, which was chosen by its owner, Johnston Press, to pioneer the publishing of user generated... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bestseller Elin Hilderbrand has signed a new, six-book deal with her longstanding publisher. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Igloo Books aims to up its adult non-fiction output by 40% over the course of 2014. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Cornerstone has signed a four-book deal with Kindle self-published author Tracy Bloom. Jenny... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Heron Books, an imprint of Quercus Books, has bought a new title about evolution by Professor... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
TV networks are gearing up for their flashy presentations, which represnt the kick-off to negotiations with advertisers over fall prime-time programming.As has been the case over the past several years, plenty of other digital media companies and publishers are also vyying for marketers' TV... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
This week James Patterson mailed the first installment of his $1 million pledge to 54 indie booksellers and the NCIBA for California Bookstore Day. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Considered too inflammatory to publish in the wake of 1980s UK riots, these tales of anarchic runaways are to be re-released as ebooksMichael de Larrabeiti's classic stories of anarchic, pointy-eared street children the Borribles, which were judged to be so lawless in the 1980s that their... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon customers in the UK, US and Germany can now use its Amazon Coins currency on Android... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fifty titles in 10 categories are in contention for the awards, which will be revealed in April. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Using the VitalSource Bookshelf platform, students and faculty will have one-click access to e-textbooks within their course environment. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
When it comes to online publishing, building an audience organically with compelling content and monetizing it successfully with ads from big-name brands is extremely hard work. Luckily, there's a much easier way to make money: Arbitrage.The post Tricks of the trade: How to game the publishing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2014-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
In a deal that adds 27 titles to its backlist, Graphic Arts Books has acquired the trade books and publishing rights of Companion Press. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Authors demand their own books are taken out of circulation in India after Wendy Doniger's The Hindus was pulled last weekTwo authors have written to Penguin demanding that their books be pulped in protest at the publisher's removal of Wendy Doniger's The Hindus from circulation in India, while... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tezuka Productions and Digital Manga, Inc. have announced a deal to translate and digitally publish hundreds of volumes of manga by revered manga and anime creator Osamu Tezuka. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The dividend figure, which is not final, appears in a document related to Tribune's purchase in December of a group of TV stations. In spinning off its publishing business, Tribune Co. will pick up a dividend that could be about $325 million from the new public company, which would consist of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2014-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Meredith, like many publishers, is still trying to figure out how to effectively make money on mobile. Its latest strategy: “gamify” its mobile apps. The publisher has inked a one-year deal with Kiip, an ad tech startup that serves users branded “rewards” in exchange for completing certain... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2014-02-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Twelve German online news publishers have taken a 50 percent stake in collecting society VG Media, with the aim of receiving compensation from search engines that republish parts of news articles.Joining collecting society VG Media is the publishers’ first step toward collecting compensation... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2014-02-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The first three titles to be released will be I Love Lucy, The Vietnam Veteran's Memorial, and The Disney Parks. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-18 00:00:00 UTC ]