The Bookseller's consumer sister site We Love This Book is inviting book-lovers to test their... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Top off your last-minute holiday shopping list with these four fabulous picture books for young readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The clock is ticking for two bookstores in the midst of transition: one about to open a second branch, the other to move. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Actor Shia LaBeouf posted the short film he directed, "HowardCantour.com," online Monday. Hours after, comic book fans began noticing the work bore a resemblance to Daniel Clowes' "Justin M. Damiano."Actor Shia LaBeouf posted the short film he directed and screened at Cannes,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Swedish publisher Norstedts says new book in international bestselling crime thriller series will be out in August 2015The Swedish publisher of the best-selling The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy says it has hired an author to write a sequel to the series by Stieg Larsson, who died in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Phyllis Lambert's book on the great Mies tower is a rare attempt to blend memoir with rigorous architectural history. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Quercus will publish a fourth book in Stieg Larsson's Millennium series, to be written by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sainsbury’s has named single mother Jack Monroe, whose book A Girl Called Jack: 100... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
I wrote the other week about Rupert Murdoch's newspaper outfit, News UK, being reborn by putting a digital smile on Wapping's face.Now, with the company's move to London Bridge in mind, the publisher has put a smile on the face of Southwark Cathedral by donating £1,000 to its All Hallows... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sir Alex Ferguson's memoir, My Autobiography (Hodder & Stoughton), has become the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Italian government has proposed a law allowing book buyers to claim up to €380 (£... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The first fiction acquisitions by Headline’s Mari Evans, who moved to the company from... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Many were sounding the death knell for independent bookstores as first Barnes & Noble and then Amazon rose to prominence. But indie stores have surprised the naysayers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
News Group Newspapers took charges related to the phone-hacking scandal of almost £90m in the year to 30 JuneThe parent company of the Sun and Sun on Sunday has reported a pre-tax loss of £75m in the year to 30 June, after taking charges of almost £90m in relation to the phone-hacking... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The board of directors of the Independent Book Publishers Association recently approved a Code of Ethics that it would like its membership to abide by. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Is the penetration of ebooks in the US market 'flattening out?' And will bookstores thus have a merrier Christmas? Live Twitter debate December 18, 11 a.m. ET. at #EtherIssue. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Previously, independent bookstores tended to stay away from marketing self-published authors, but in the age of Amazon, some are embracing local authors no matter how they released their work. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
I believe that every individual possesses within them the innate ability to be great. To me, being great means being yourself... to the power of 10. It means tapping into your full potential so that you can be all you can be. In today’s digital era, there are a myriad of opportunities for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2013-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Photographer Iain McKell documents people in England who have voluntarily abandoned mainstream lifestyles in favor of nomadic ones.Photographer Iain McKell first became acquainted with new age travelers 25 years ago on an assignment for the London Observer. Calling themselves the "Peace Convoy,"... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
A customer representing the Poarch Band of Creek Indians walked into Barnes & Noble in Spanish Fort, Ala., and bought an entire display in the children's section. As a result, nearly 500 children in the tribe will receive at least one new book this holiday season. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]