The Food and Drug Administration is rolling out an ambitious anti-smoking campaign designed to dissuade young people from picking up the habit by appealing to their vanity.DraftFCB is handling creative for the campaign, a two-year, $115 million campaign with the tagline "The Real Cost."... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 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 organisers of year’s Imagine Children's Festival at the Southbank Centre are... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Avon has bought world English rights to two novels by Sasha Wagstaff, writing as Ella Harper.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 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 ]
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 ]
A kick-ass lady protagonist? Check. Greek mythology? Check. Comic book source material? Check. Wonder Woman has all the ingredients for a hit TV series. So?where is it? Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2014-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
India's effervescent literary culture have begun to attract more foreign writers looking to license books in search of a bigger audience and accolades. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 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 ]
John Murray has acquired the debut novel from former BBC News journalist Terry Stiastny. Acts of... 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 ]
Sony, one of the first companies to enter the ebook market, will close its ebookstore in March and allow its American and Canadian customers to migrate their accounts to Kobo. 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 ]
Mike Serbinis has stood down as the chief executive of Kobo with immediate effect. He will be... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
OverDrive has announced that it is making available HarperCollins' 5,000 ebooks to schools and libraries in U.K. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Boston publisher has gone back to press for a second printing of a book by furniture maker Peter Korn that combines the personal with creative practice. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Gillian Redfearn has been promoted to publishing director of Orion imprint Gollancz, with Jon... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Staff at the magazine publisher IPC Media are expected to bear the brunt of a redundancy programme ordered by its US-based parent, Time Warner, according to reports in America.Its publishing division, Time Inc, is seeking to cut 500 jobs from its 7,800 total in what is said to be its "last big... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
From explaining what 'juggalo' means to recipes for sweet potato bourbon noodle kugel, the website's guide is well worth a visitNo, not the Coco Chanel kind of style; the other kind: the writing and editing style that newspapers and websites follow to maintain accuracy, clarity and consistency.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Years of effort on behalf of publishers has resulted in a new fixed book price law in Slovenia, which should help stabilize the tiny nation's book business. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]