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Amazon to begin European publishing push from 2013

Amazon has said that it is to open a European publishing wing headquartered in Luxembourg,... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Culture of secrecy' as Croydon chooses library company

Croydon Council has chosen the private company it wants to run its 13 libraries, with John... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Minister backs Six Book Challenge expansion

Politicians have backed the Reading Agency's Six Book Challenge in an attempt to improve... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins Launches New Imprint for the YA Market

HarperCollins is creating a new digital imprint—HarperTeen Impulse—focusing on young adult short stories and novellas, which sell for .99 cents to $2.99. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Barnes & Noble reports Q2 2013 earnings: digital content sales up 38%, Nook unit rakes $160 million

Barnes & Noble's Nook unit didn't have its greatest quarter. The $160 million in revenue the new Microsoft-backed spin off raked in was slightly better than last year's $152 million, but still a significant drop from $220 million. In a sign of the growing ubiquity of e-readers however,... Continue reading at 'Engadget'

[ Engadget | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Magazines Double Down On Tablet Commitment

The magazine industry’s faith in the future of tablets is not easing up, even though advertiser support for digital editions has been slow in coming and these platforms still represent a small fraction of overall distribution for most books. Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'

[ Folio Magazine | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google Fires a Rare Public Salvo Over Aggregators

Google is fighting a proposal that would force it and other online aggregators to pay German newspaper and magazine publishers to display snippets of news in Web searches. Continue reading at 'The New York Times'

[ The New York Times | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Headline's Byrne moves to Cornerstone, Ronan promoted

Headline's UK and international sales director Aslan Byrne is moving to Random House as sales... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon adds $1.5m to KDP author pot

Amazon is giving its KDP self-publishing platform a further push before Christmas by putting an... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dan Kois’ 15 Favorite Books of 2012

Tuesday: Slate staffers pick their favorite books of 2012. Wednesday: The overlooked books of 2012. Thursday: Dan Kois’ 15 favorite books. Friday: The Slate Book Review Top 10. Continue reading at 'Slate'

[ Slate | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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McGraw-Hill Education Sold for $2.5 Billion to Investor

McGraw-Hill has signed an agreement to sell its education business, McGraw-Hill Education, to investment firm Apollo Global Management for $2.5 billion. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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French prizewinner Deville to Little, Brown

Little, Brown commissioning editor Rowan Cope has acquired an acclaimed French novel about the... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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You Can’t Wrap an E-Book

It used to be easy to give your loved ones books for the holidays. You went to a bookstore, browsed the shelves , and picked out something thoughtful: Jodi Picoult’s latest for your mom, Harry Potter for your niece, maybe a Bill O’Reilly rant for that uncle who never shuts up at Thanksgiving.  ... Continue reading at 'Slate'

[ Slate | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two Roads buys Kirsty Wark novels

Hodder imprint Two Roads has acquired two novels from "Newsnight" presenter Kirsty Wark... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In China, 25 Million People Use Only Their Cell Phones to Read Books

Mobile reading may revive entire genres of literature, such as mid-length novels and poems, which have fallen out of favor. Continue reading at 'The Atlantic'

[ The Atlantic | 2012-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The little Kiwi people behind The Hobbit

Born out of a British book and funded by Hollywood, The Hobbit is also a movie that has its heart in New Zealand. Continue reading at 'Stuff'

[ Stuff | 2012-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster gets wise to self-publishing

Simon & Schuster Inc. is getting on the self-publishing bandwagon. The book publishing division of CBS Corp. announced Tuesday that it has joined with veteran self-publishing firm Author Solutions, Inc., to form Archway Publishing, a service that will focus on writers who want to publish... Continue reading at 'Crains New York'

[ Crains New York | 2012-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ebury signs Gemma Collins

Ebury has signed up an autobiography from "The Only Way is Essex" star Gemma Collins.... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google Fights Foreign Attempts to Charge Fees for Newspaper Links

Google is taking on the German government with a new "Defend Your Net" campaign that aims to fight attempts there to pass a law that would allow German newspaper publishers to charge fees to Google for providing links to newspaper stories. ... Continue reading at 'Editor & Publisher'

[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Where Is YA Going? Scholastic’s Experts Advise

Stacy Lellos, VP of Marketing and Multi-Platform Publishing, and Aimee Friedman, executive editor, both at Scholastic give a peek into the future of YA publishing. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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