As Chaplain of The Colbert Report and a bestselling author, Rev. James Martin S.J. is one few religious figures to star on the mass media. Here, the bestselling author discusses his career and beliefs. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House Audio has signed an agreement with BBC Worldwide to sell and distribute the company... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
The turn-the-page Web catalog—tested widely in the 2000s as an alternative to e-commerce sites—once looked like an emerging shopping platform led by now-defunct tech providers such as RichFX. But the concept died on the proverbial vine. With the massive proliferation of tablets, however, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2013-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
The editors of Scholastic News featured the "8 Coolest Kids We Met in 2013," a roundup of the most inspiring, courageous, and innovative kids featured in the magazines this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Late Thursday afternoon, the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression issued a statement defending the right of booksellers to sell The Anarchist Cookbook and Happy Happy Happy. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Bookseller's Digital Census, the annual tracker of how the book business is managing the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Social news agency distributes video and user-generated content to news organisations such as the BBC and ITNNews Corp has bought Dublin-based social news agency Storyful for €18m (£15m).Rupert Murdoch's global publishing business said Storyful would remain a stand-alone operation that would... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
From big data to responsive design to the next iOS, technology has become inextricably linked to publishing. No one has a perfect model for it yet though. In many cases, content has raced ahead of monetization. In other instances, it's reversed. Neither side is stopping to wait for the other to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2013-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
If Jackie French gets her way the nation's children's books will be a lot stickier and messier. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Sydney Morning Herald | 2013-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
A "grocery" as opposed to a "luxury" is how Houghton Mifflin Harcourt refers to wine on the cover of its inventive, playful, and now popular, new book, The Essential Scratch & Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette UK has said it will keep its “federal structure” when it moves all seven of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Phil Robertson was suspended by A&E for bigoted comments in GQ. Conservatives cry foul, but it hardly violates his rightsThe right to free speech isn't just a fundamental American value; it's enshrined in the first amendment to our constitution. If only the most loud-mouthed among us... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Revenue at Scholastic rose 1.5% in the second quarter ended November 30, to $623.2 million, and net income declined to $58.3 million from $61.8 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2013. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Culture secretary says presence of campaign group at party negotiations was a 'hijacking of government business'The culture secretary Maria Miller has described campaigning group Hacked Off's involvement in political negotiations over press regulation as "quite a destructive force" in the eyes... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Exam to be based on 700-page manual that prohibits published reports from featuring comments that go against party lineChinese journalists will have to pass a new ideology exam early next year to keep their press cards, in what reporters say is another example of the ruling Communist party's... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
If you loved choose your own adventure books as a child - the ones where you had to turn to page 34 to ride the unicorn or page 75 to enter the Cave of Time - you may find the narrative format of the latest DC Comics digital graphic novel familiar. Today, DC launched Batman: Arkham ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
In early December, FOLIO: presented its annual Eddie & Ozzie Awards ceremony, which celebrates the best in magazine editorial and design. Huffington. and Nautilus were both big winners, taking home four and three awards, respectively. In all, more than 150 awards were given to brands... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
It can be hard out there for a freelancer. The avalanche of emails, stiff competition, low pay and ignored invoices all make it a real challenge. That’s why Ebyline, a conduit between digital publishers and writers, works to connect tho ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sourcebooks' Put Me in the Story personalised-book series has launched a new 'universal... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Awards season has arrived. The Oscars, the Golden Globes, all the rest. Some of these shows we love, most we secretly mock. There are way too many, to begin with. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]