George Lossius, CEO at Publishing Technology, predicts 5 trends for trade publishing for the year, including a boost for big data and a focus on formats. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Last week, Image Comics presented Image Expo 2014, an innovative single-publisher media event, held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in downtown San Francisco to show off its artists and forthcoming projects. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
E-books subscription start-up Oyster has raised $14m in investment in a deal with Highland... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
A comprehensive list of the writers to look for and galleys and finished books available at the ABA conference. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publisher of enthusiast consumer content Evolve Media, LLC has lured Geoff Schiller from his position as Hearst Digital Media’s chief sales officer to join the company as chief revenue officer. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2014-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new senior role is rapidly emerging at the top of digital publishers’ sales organizations: the programmatic czar. Publishers initially approached programmatic advertising warily, concerned it would do little more than drive down their ad prices and further commoditize their inventory. That... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2014-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Bell Lomax Moreton Agency has appointed Helen Mackenzie Smith as a literary agent to find new... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Japan is planning to tax sales of foreign online content such as ebooks, apps and downloaded music by late 2015, according to a newspaper report.Japanese who purchase electronic content from foreign firms like Amazon.com through overseas servers don’t have to pay consumption tax, currently at 5... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2014-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
In an infographic sent out Monday afternoon, Sourcebooks says total revenue in 2013 increased 22%. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
If these are the end times for literature, then we must be traveling in circles, for the death of storytelling looks an awful lot like its birth. The novel itself isn’t all that old. Sure, we can find a handful of examples going back thousands of years, but you have to stretch your definition of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2014-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oyster, the recently launched ebook subscription service, has raised $14 million in its latest funding round. The new funding was led by Highland Capital Partners and includes participation from the existing Founders Fund which was led by Peter Thiel. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tasters of the reviews competing for the annual prize that recognises 'the angriest, funniest, most trenchant book review of the past 12 months'News: Hatchet Job of the Year award draws and quarters shortlistCraig Brown on Distant Intimacy: A Friendship in the Age of the Internet by Frederic... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
November bookstore sales fell 4.2% compared to November 2012, dropping to $818 million, according to preliminary results released Tuesday morning by the U.S. Census Bureau. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The works of two British authors, Roger Knight and Richard Overy, have been recognised on the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Atlantic Books Limited has begun the year by announcing "a significant financial and organizational restructuring." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon451 will publish titles in the subgenres of fantasy, dystopian, apocalyptic and the supernatural, beginning in October 2014. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Richard Nash, former Small Demons v-p, content and community, is joining Byliner, the digital subscription reading service, as v-p, partnerships. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Orion will publish a book on trivia about different areas of the UK, written by Mark Mason. Alan... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookstore employees, owners, and their dependents can apply for awards totaling $198,500. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Boston Globe executive to take new post of chief digital and product officer at Scotsman and Yorkshire Post publisherJohnston Press has hired Jeff Moriarty, one of the Boston Globe's top digital executives, in the newly-created role of chief digital and product officer.Moriarty, who joins the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]