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 ]
Rhondda Cynon Taf has approved budget plans that will see more than half of its 26 libraries... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Should book publishing be all about profit? The success of OUP, despite its elitism, suggests notOUP is one of Britain's truly great institutions, up there, or nearly, with the NHS and the BBC. As in these other cases, its modern history has been largely dominated by the struggle to preserve its... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon and Schuster Children’s Books has launched a new YA community, Hashtag Reads, aimed... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
A growing number of publisher sites are now shunning the concept of finite "pages" as vehicles with which to serve content, opting instead to do so with seamless, often endless feeds and streams. The concept of a page, which is largely a hangover from the world of print media, suddenly seems... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2014-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The second Twitter fiction festival, searching for authors from across the world to tell stories... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ipso is a creature of the publishers in which they will continue to hold the strings – including the purse-stringsAt last, the new press regulator is emerging from the shadows. The Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso), the great invention of the majority of Britain's newspaper and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Man Booker Prize winner Eleanor Catton will appear in London for an event where she is... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
CEO Marissa Mayer wants her company to copy the publishing industry for its "elegant" designs, "distinctive voice," and of course, our CPMs.In an overtly flashy keynote address to the packed CES crowd yesterday, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer presented the company's vertical move into online magazines.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2014-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
In 2013, Russia overtook the UK and Brazil to become the world's third largest ebook market, trailing only China (in 2nd) and the United States (first). Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Russia's ebook market is expanding as more legitimate titles come online and efforts are made to fight piracy. Could ebook piracy finally be waning? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
It’s not news that hard-pressed editors are being stretched in many different directions these days, but no challenges seem as complex and vexing at times as how to divvy up the resources to devout to social media. Facebook, Twitter, Instag ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2014-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Little, Brown editors have bought a number of novels which have hit Germany's bestseller... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Scribd executive acknowledged the problem of pirated content on Scribd and also outlined the company's efforts to prevent unauthorized uploads. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
'The Invention of Wings' by Sue Monk Kidd is receiving rave reviews and was recently selected as the latest pick for Oprah Winfrey's revamped book club. But how much of the book actually comes from history? Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
IBM is unveiling their new Watson for Business on Thursday, a $1 billion project devoted to bringing big data to every educational institution, pharmaceutical firm, and publishing house in America--and they're offering more than $100 million in venture capital to developers.IBM is announcing the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2014-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates is the first to offer a scathing critique of President Obama and his administration from within the Cabinet. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
PW's annual post-Christmas survey of two dozen bookstores across the country didn't turn up any blockbusters on a level with last year's Hunger Games trilogy; instead, shoppers gravitated to a mix of children's books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The trailer for Gary Shteyngart's memoir 'Little Failure' features James Franco and Rashida Jones. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Hachette Book Group will be making a couple of big real estate moves this year as it expands its distribution center in Indiana and relocates its New York City headquarters. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]