Publisher who helped break down legal barriers against pornography dies in Brooklyn after long battle with illness Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The mobile ad world has become one of haves and have nots. The Wall Street Journal concentrates on the haves, the platforms like Facebook, but the world of publishers isn’t so luckily.The post Reality Check: Mobile Ads Have a Way to Go appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The release of the latest Hunger Games film, backlist titles such as Harry Potter and success... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 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 ]
Japanese manga has proven popular in America, but Franco-Belgian bande dessinée, which has a long a tradition and are just as appealing, remain ignored. Why? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Continuing to expand its inventory of French-language comics, Comixology, the digital comics platform and marketplace, is releasing 700 French comics in the North American marketplace. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Despite the controversy stirred up Wednesday afternoon by critical remarks of "homosexual behavior" by Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson in a GQ interview, Simon & Schuster has no plans to pull Phil Robertson's bestselling book, Happy, Happy, Happy. The title has sold nearly 600,000... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 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 ]
Wedding Crashers helmer signs on for long-gestating biopic telling life story of Playboy magazine founder• Peter Morgan in talks to develop Hugh Hefner biopicPlayboy founder Hugh Hefner is to have his life story told in a biopic to be directed by Wedding Crashers' David Dobkin, it has been... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Journalist, who has been editor of trade magazine Broadcast since 2007, will take over from Louise Benson on 24 FebruaryLisa Campbell, editor of trade magazine Broadcast, has been appointed director of the Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival.Campbell has been with the TV... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-19 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 ]
Report about Met detective sergeant Gary Flood claimed there were strong grounds to believe he was dishonest and corruptA police officer has been awarded £60,000 in damages in a high court judgment against the Times over an article which claimed that there were strong grounds to believe he was... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fifty members of staff at Macmillan's Basingstoke site are to take redundancy rather than... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 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 ]
Concerns have been raised over the use of temporary workers at Random House's distribution... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers may think a cute animal on the cover is what sells in the supermarket, but ask around online and those who buy pet books will tell you otherwiseThe moment of receiving your first book jacket is one that every author remembers. I was so excited when I got mine – a jacket, for a book,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oyster, the ebook subscription service launched this year, has reached a deal with the Perseus Books Group to launch a pilot program offering 100 Perseus titles through the Oyster subscription catalog Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
When I penned the book, I was angry and alienated. Today I realize that violence can't be used to prevent violenceForty-four years ago this month, in December 1969, I quit my job as a manager of a bookstore in New York City's Greenwich Village and began to write the Anarchist Cookbook. My... 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 ]