A couple months ago I began the tour for my book about President John F. Kennedy’s assassination with a lecture at Southern Methodist University in Dallas—a talk I was told would be attended by four members of the Oswald family. Also at the lecture were three men who knew a lot about Nov. 22,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2013-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
When Matt Prohaska joined The New York Times as its first-ever programmatic advertising director, he claims to have begun meetings by drawing blood from his arm. "I wanted to show everyone I was human," he said.There was no actual bloodshed. Mr. Prohaska, hired in April after running his own... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2013-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Instead of mining data or listening to a chorus of friends, Describli founder Laura Fredericks says we should look at how people found books in bookstores. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ellie Levenson, the author of The Noughtie Girl’s Guide to Feminism (Oneworld), has set up... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Aurum Press has signed a book on cyclist Dieter Wiedermann, an East German sports star who... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the new book Before They Pass Away, photographer Jimmy Nelson has captured a series of gorgeous pictures of 31 remote cultures that are on the verge of disappearing.Over the last three years, British photographer Jimmy Nelson traveled around the world--from Namibia to Papua New Guinea to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Brad Stone's The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (Bantam Press) has won... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Winner of the Nobel Literature prize and author of more than 55 works of fiction, opera, nonfiction, and poetry, including 'The Golden Notebook,' British author Doris Lessing died Sunday at her home in London. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
With both models of the new Kindle Fire HDX tablets now out in the wild, Amazon can concentrate on tweaking the system to add features and fix bugs. The device, while considered to be a competitor to the Nexus 7, is really more about media, specifically that from the retail giant's ecosystem.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2013-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Popular authors including George R R Martin, Neil Gaiman, Kate Atkinson and David Nicholls are... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Washington Post Co. announced Monday that it will change its name to Graham Holdings Company, acknowledging the Oct. 1 sale of the company’s flagship newspaper and several other publishing businesses to Amazon.com founder Jeffrey P. Bez ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Today marks the debut of two features we've been waiting for since Amazon first announced its new Kindle Fire line lo so many weeks ago. Goodreads and Second Screen integration will be rolling out to Fire HD and HDX owners over-the-air in the next couple of weeks - or you can just go to Amazon's... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Broadcast Music Inc., No. 24 on Crain's list of the top privately held companies, will have a big year in 2014. The music-rights management company will celebrate its 75th anniversary, and its president of nearly 10 years, Del Bryant, who climbed the ranks from artist liaison in 1972, will step... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penelope Lively's recent short ebook for Penguin drew criticism for its brevity – but readers should not be put off the genre as a whole"Overpriced", "ridiculous", I feel cheated". Amazon reviewers haven't been wholly positive about a digital short Penelope Lively has written for Penguin... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Robert Diamond's initial brush with Broadway and technology began with Phantom of the Opera and a fascination with its leading man. "Hey, I'm a straight guy who loves Michael Crawford. When I was still in college I created the official Michael Crawford website," said the self-described nerd, who... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing died at her home in London on Sunday, her publisher announced. She was 94.Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing died at her home in London on Sunday, her publisher announced. She was 94. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Though its headquarters building rises 46 stories over Central Park, and though its biggest magazine franchise, Cosmopolitan, sells more than a million copies on newsstands every month, Hearst Corp. is still, in some ways, little known to the general public. Certainly few people would guess that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
It is rare that an industry would see the declining growth rate of its fastest-growing product as anything but bad news. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
To support Indies First, scores of authors will be working in indie bookstores on Small Business Saturday. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
It's common practice for musical artists to create their own labels in order to dip into that part of the industry. However, even though it's, more or less, the same thing, New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter is taking the uncommon step of launching his own book publishing imprint, Jeter... Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2013-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]