Designer Brian Gennett has constructed giant numbers out of book covers for each floor in Barker Block, a loft building downtown. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2014-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
'39 Clues' author Patrick Carman says he knows Amazon is a convenient option, but suggests buying a book from an independent bookstore each time you buy from Amazon. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Cold Comfort Farm author left two books unpublished on her death, says daughterThe novelist Stella Gibbons, who delighted a generation of girls with her rural satire Cold Comfort Farm, left behind two unpublished novels – including a ghost story – when she died in 1989, her family revealed this... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
F+W Media is expanding its verticals with its acquisition of New Track Media, a craft content and commerce company founded in 2006. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The move brings the total number of countries where the Nook and Nook store are available to 32. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Any deal would exclude London Evening Standard, while separate sale of profitable i thought to be open to discussionAlexander Lebedev has asked the founder of the Independent to seek a buyer for the newspaper, its Sunday sister and their cut-price stablemate, the i, 28 years after the daily... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
A lengthy filing posted on January 10 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Eastern Pennsylvania provides a glimpse of some of the inner workings of Good Enterprises (the parent company of Good Books), which filed for Chapter 7 liquidation on December 11. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Independent is a calling card across the world, the paper's former owner, Tony O'Reilly, once told me. It was one of the major reasons he fought so hard to acquire the Indy and why he was prepared to lose so much money afterwards as its publisher.He understood that it was the title that gave... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Time Inc. has named Brendan Ripp publisher of Sports Illustrated and its website SI.com, the company said Thursday. He succeeds Frank Wall, who is leaving Time Inc. for a job with Turner Sports.A 14-year veteran of Time Inc., Mr. Ripp was most recently VP-sales and marketing at Fortune magazine.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Doncaster’s council has put forward cost-cutting plans which could leave just four out of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Anna Davis of Curtis Brown, agent for the Stella Gibbons estate, had no idea of the existence of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
In an eye-catching pairing, Man Booker Prize-winning novelist Roddy Doyle is to partner with ex-... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Figures show the vast majority of authors, both traditionally and self-published, are struggling to make a living from their workThe publishing industry has never been so sharply divided. In the week when the erotica writer Sylvia Day signed a staggering eight-figure two-book deal with St... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Coe named president, CEO of B&T and more in this week's publishing news briefs. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Projects you “desperately want to publish” but that you also can’t imagine “sliding comfortably between those two stiff pieces of cardboard” is how Farrar, Straus & Giroux senior editor Sean McDonald described FSG Originals, the publisher’s paperback line. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
U.K-based Quercus Publishing reported this morning that a disappointing fourth quarter would result in a “significant” loss for the year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Vanessa Curtis, whose novels include Zelah Green and The Haunting of Tabitha Grey (both... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The New York City travel bookstore will open a store in Williamsburg this weekend. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ecommerce has become an oasis for many publishers looking to diversify revenue streams in a downward ad market. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2014-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
For the first time the Zee Jaipur Literary Festival (JLF) has introduced a professional program to discuss the ongoing challenges to book publishing in India. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]