Newspaper publishers in Sudan are being harassed and intimidated by the arbitrary confiscation of newspaper issues and through sudden orders to cease printing.There have been at least seven confiscations since the start of 2014 following more in the preceding months, according to the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Billing WEbook as a digital “slush pile,” Ardy Khazaei, its former president, told PW in 2009 that the Web site aimed to match agents with the kinds of manuscripts they were looking to represent. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The PC business isn’t the only one Sony will abandon. The electronics giant is also closing the books on its North American ebook efforts.“Wait,” you’re probably saying after reading that sentence: “Sony was making an ebook effort in North America?”And you know, that’s pretty hurtful.Still, you... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2014-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Live-fire cooking is the ultimate slow-food experience,” says Storey editor Carleen Madigan, talking about Cooking with Fire by Paula Marcoux, a food historian and editor of Edible South Shore, a one of the few women to have written a grilling book. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
On the second day of TIBE (Taipei International Book Fair), the traffic built up significantly after most Taipei residents returned to town at the end of the Chinese New Year holidays. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Rupert Murdoch’s publishing arm, which owns Wall Street Journal and the Times, blames ‘challenging advertising market’Dominic Rushe Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sequential, a comics storefront app focused on literary graphic novels, has released a new version of the app with upgraded features in addition to offering three specially-enhanced titles from acclaimed U.K. comics publisher SelfMadeHero. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
News Corp., the newspaper publisher that owns The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, beat profit estimates and posted gains in real-estate services and book publishing, even as advertising... To view the full story, click the title link. Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2014-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House UK will not be changing its distribution sites in the UK, in the wake of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Slate Book Review and the Center for Cartoon Studies are proud to announce the nominees for the second annual Cartoonist Studio Prize. The winner in each of our two categories will be announced March 7; each winner will receive $1,000 and, of course, eternal glory. The shortlists were... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2014-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The European Publishers Council (EPC) has criticised the decision by the European Competition... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The New York Times Company said it added digital subscribers and slowed its declines in print and digital advertising revenue during the fourth quarter of 2013, a year of transition for the newspaper publisher. For all of 2013, revenue from digital ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2014-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) rose 33% in HarperCollins’ second quarter ended December 31, 2013, to $68 million. Sales rose a more modest 4%. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Cassell Illustrated will publish a book with UK singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran and his childhood... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
A small bookstore hacks it system to prevent expectant parents from receiving 10 different copies of Good Night, Moon. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2014-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Duchess of Cambridge has written the foreword for a book which reveals “what life as an... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sony's e-reading customers will shift to the Kobo platform in the US and Canada from March,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The International Kolkata Book Fair has been welcoming hundreds of thousands of people to the Indian city of Calcutta. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2014-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Global Radio-owned station falls by just 0.6% as its breakfast show increases its weekly audience by 10% to 1.19 millionCapital FM proved the most resilient of London's commercial radio broadcasters in the final three months of 2013, almost managing to hold its audience flat at 2.2 million.The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
With its eye firmly fixed on a return to profitability, Sony's been making extensive cuts to its business arms in recent days (bye bye, VAIO!). So it's no surprise the company would train that cost-cutting eye onto another underperforming unit -- its... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2014-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]