In the world of print magazines, fashion remains a stalwart.Top fashion titles such as Vogue, Glamour, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, InStyle and People StyleWatch all finished 2013 with growth in print ad pages, according to the Publishers Information Bureau, which released its end of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitic political testament, "Mein Kampf" is surging up electronic book best seller lists, even as sales of the printed version have been stagnant for years. Continue reading >> [ Source: ABC News | 2014-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Dow Jones has sued a London-based aggregation service, Ransquawk, for allegedly accessing its news feed and publishing its content within seconds of its original publication.The legal action - as reported by Reuters - accuses Ransquawk (Real-Time Analysis & News) of "hot news"... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Knewton, a company that specializes in adaptive learning technology that tracks student use and personalizes instructional content, has reached an agreement with Cengage Learning, an educational and professional publisher, to integrate Knewton software into Cengage’s higher education content. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
For the past 15 years or so, poets and poetry lovers around the world have earmarked January 17 as a day to pay tribute to the late poet and pacifist William Stafford (1914–1993) with public readings from his works. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
More than 6,000 publishing campaigns were launched on Kickstarter in 2013, including over 1,600 works of fiction and nearly 1,000 children’s book projects. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
An essay by a former British soldier has won a competition run by The Bodley Head and the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Through the first 10 months of 2013 sales of adult trade books fell 0.6% and sales of children’s/young adult dropped 9.7%, according to AAP’s monthly StatShot figures for October. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Florence Ladd returned an advance and decided to go it alone for her second novel, "The Spirit of Josephine: A Family Reunion in Paris." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
A weekly newspaper is about to be published without having an office, reports HoldTheFrontPage. The Hemel Hempstead Gazette, having left its headquarters, will operate in future largely through computer screens.Editor John Francis tells me there will be weekly face-to-face meetings of the half... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sandstone Press has acquired a new novel from Eve Makis, titled The Spice Box Letters. Director... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Industry luminaries scry the spins ahead in the helter skelter revolution at the centre of their businessAnna Rafferty, Penguin digital managing director"I predict more digital for publishers in 2014. I'm not being (completely) facetious, I mean more digitalness in all parts of the industry,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
On the surface, Seattle might seem like a tough area to ply the independent bookselling trade. Yet many Seattle booksellers are upbeat about the prospects ahead. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Unit sales of print books fell 4% in the first week of 2014 compared to the week ended Jan. 6, 2013, at outlets that report to Nielsen BookScan. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lindsay Sagnette edited both the mega-hit "Gone Girl" and the critical darling "A Constellation of Vital Phenomenon." So what's next for the editor with the golden touch? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writer Gillian Flynn has acknowledged rewriting the ending to her novel Gone Girl (Weidenfeld... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The change is subtle, but its message is clear: Facebook has entered the news business.It's no secret that Facebook is changing what appears in your feed dramatically. Whereas memes used to rule supreme--making basically anything shared by George Takei go viral--Facebook has reweighted its... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2014-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Frequently, literary agents argue that selling the territorial rights for a book has advantages over selling world rights. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bonnier Books New Markets has made its first acquisition in Polish publishing house Marginesy.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
An analysis of the year's bestselling books reveals the clout big publishers have, how fast bestsellers rotate out, and much more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]