The Impress Project aims to attract newspapers and publishers that want a regulator 'independent of owners and politicians'The former editor of the Sunday Times, Sir Harold Evans, is backing an initiative to set up a press regulator to rival the body being launched by the publishers of the Sun,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The suburban St. Louis bookstore ended its four-week Kickstarter campaign on Sunday, more than $2,000 above its goal. The funds raised are being used to build out a section of its new home so that the store can open for business on weekends before Christmas. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Buzzfeed-style site has managed to lure 7 million users – but it still seeks commercial successThis week the Daily Mirror's publisher will make its second foray into socially shared content with the launch of data journalism experiment Ampp3d, as mainstream media companies inspired by the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins has acquired Sour, the true story of Tracey Miller, a former Brixton gang girl,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Doha's book fair may be overshadowed by Abu Dhabi and Sharjah, but it has ambitions to raise the cultural profile of Qatar in this fast developing region. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
All books submitted for sale in Qatar must been approved by the Ministry of Culture even if the same book has already been approved for another retailer. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The magazine was once the most hotly anticipated Sunday read. Now it's been eclipsed by the showy T style publicationTwo magazines, both published by the New York Times, arrived in my house over the weekend, one thin, the other thick.The thin one, The New York Times Magazine, is largely about... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Britain's first homegrown existentialist star, he failed to follow up the huge success of his 1956 book, The OutsiderFor a few dazzling months, Colin Wilson, who has died aged 82, was taken at his own valuation in his diary as "the major literary genius of our century", a writer destined to be... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tight security did not deter over 750,000 people (50,000 more than last year) from attending FIL—a meeting point between readers and books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Granta has made a series of acquisitions, including two new books from Israeli author Etgar Keret... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Indie publishing via online writing communities and ebooks can provide valuable feedback, and even set you on the path to mainstream successNews that a quarter of the top 100 Kindle books on Amazon.com are from indie publishers doesn't surprise me. I started out writing online. Fed up with the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The newspaper owners behind Ipso are ignoring the public, so we need to think about building a robust, independent regulatorWhen I was seven years old I launched my own newspaper. For several days I laid bare hypocrisy and corruption in our small Yorkshire village. Publication lapsed when the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days. Don't pack your bags just yet, but Hubble has found indirect evidence of water on five different planets -- a lot of it, in some cases. Bigger brains ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Patricia Churchland, a neurophilosopher at the University of California at San Diego, says our hopes, loves and very existence are just elaborate functions of a complicated mass of grey tissue. Accepting that can be hard, but what we know should inspire us, not scare us. Her most recent book is... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2013-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster has launched a new social media community, The Hot Bed, to promote the "New Adult" genre complete with a "chili chart" to gauge hotness. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Moments of sadness and joy last week. First, a farewell to Peter Kaplan, the late, great editor of The New York Observer, whose snappy journalism sensibilities influenced, oh, only everyone in American publishing these past 25 years. Dead at 59 from cancer. Damn you, God, for taking him. At the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
New, fully-illustrated edition of JK Rowling's novels will see artist Jim Kay reimagining the entire Potter universe• Q&A: illustrator Jim Kay on the 'brain-freezing terror' of reimagining Harry PotterJK Rowling's bestselling boy wizard is due for a makeover, with the launch of award-winning... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Print sales held up well during the week of Thanksgiving this year, rising 7.5% in Nielsen BookScan’s retail & club channel compared to the week of Thanksgiving in 2012. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Monday: Slate staffers pick their favorite books of 2013. Tuesday: The overlooked books of 2013. Wednesday: The best lines of 2013, and the best poetry of 2013. Thursday: Dan Kois’ 15 favorite books. Friday: The Slate Book Review Top 10. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2013-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
We’re at a watershed,” said Tim McNeill, CEO and publisher of Wisdom Publications, a Buddhist publisher in Somerville, Mass. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]