Authors Michael Blakemore, Michael Simkins and Philip Zeigler are all contenders for the 2014... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Harry Potter creator JK Rowling will publish another crime novel under her pseudonym Robert Galbraith this summer. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mike Luckwell buys struggling title from Jon Moulton's private equity company, Better Capital, with plan to target over-50sReader's Digest has been sold for just £1 to Mike Luckwell, whose previous major investments have included Bob the Builder creator HIT Entertainment and WPP.Jon Moulton's... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
With the new year underway and the 2014 Public Library Association conference in Indianapolis approaching, we asked some experts working in children’s and teen services what trends they are seeing in libraries and library services. What are the big issues children and teen librarians will be... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hodder's creative director Auriol Bishop and agent Hellie Ogden are among those taking part... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bestseller Warren Adler discusses the challenges of converting his 1977 thriller "Trans-Siberian Express" into digital and enhancing it Apple's iBooks. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
BBC's creative director on his closeness to Tony Hall, competition from rivals like Google – and his plan for more appsAlan Yentob is having his picture taken on a staircase overlooking the vast BBC newsroom at New Broadcasting House and telling me about the flooding at his house in Somerset... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Silkworm focuses on killing of a vindictive novelist who has written character assassinations of his peersThe new novel from JK Rowling, written under her pseudonym Robert Galbraith, will feature a novelist who is brutally murdered after writing poison pen-portraits of nearly everyone he... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
I see that Newsquest has warned members of the National Union of Journalists that they may be in breach of their employment contracts if they take part in tomorrow's planned one-day strike.NUJ members voted for industrial action after the publisher announced that it was transferring sub-editing... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Public Library Association President Carolyn Anthony faces a dilemma. “There’s so much I’m looking forward to that it’s hard to know where to start,” she says, when asked for her perspective on the division’s upcoming biennial conference, set for March 11–15 in Indianapolis, Ind. “I look forward... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hodder Children’s Books has acquired Boyface, a debut series from children’s comedian... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jonathan Cape has bought a new book about epilepsy by writer and BBC Radio 4 science producer... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Earlier this month, there was yet another lengthy public debate about Upworthy, the two-year-old publisher that has become one of the most popular sites on Facebook due to its knack for overselling its bite-size content with "curiosity gap" h ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Gone are the days when, if you wanted to read a book in bed, you'd need to take a torch with you. Nowadays, as long as you've got a Kindle Paperwhite, the books will happily illuminate themselves. The device's even front-lighting and engineering... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
As public librarians head to Indianapolis, Ind., for PLA 2014, there has been progress on the digital front, the economy has held steady, and a series of Pew surveys have reinforced the public’s love of libraries. But in an age of rapidly changing technology and information overload, how are... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
"The Silkworm," the followup novel to "The Cuckoo's Calling," the mystery written by J.K. Rowling using the Robert Galbraith pseudonym, will be released June 24 in the U.S. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Chatto & Windus is to publish a memoir about daughterhood by social historian Juliet Nicolson... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Payment revealed by News Corp in US likely to reignite debate over how much tax is paid by international corporationsRupert Murdoch’s media group received a $882m tax rebate from Australia last year in a revelation that is likely to reignite the debate over how much tax is paid by international... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Technical books, with charts and graphs, have always been a challenge for e-readers like the Kindle. DCL, working with MIT Press, believes it has come up with a solution. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new wave of publishers is bucking the digital trend with stylishly printed magazines that are as much a joy to hold as beholdSee a gallery of some of the best-looking new magazinesThe magazine is dead, long live the magazine. It's not so much a resurrection of the magazine in the digital age... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]