Jaques Ferrandez is beloved and celebrated in France yet practically unknown in the Anglo-Saxon world; his recent adaptation of 'L’Étranger' (The Stranger) has been a bestseller. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sheryl Sandberg helped Facebook post some insane numbers: after their IPO debacle of May 2012, shares have gone up 140% in the past year, to about $50. As Miguel Helft writes for Fortune, that's partly due to the company's reorganization around mobile, which critics once bashed them for being... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Upscale shelter magazine Dwell, which is moving its editorial operations to Manhattan from San Francisco, just launched an online store that offers fans a handpicked selection of furniture and other home (and office) goods. But rather than acting as a link between buyer and seller, like most... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
We’re first responders,” said Charles Brownstein, executive director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF), an organization devoted to protecting the First Amendment rights of comics artists, publishers, retailers, librarians, and fans. “We continue to respond immediately to crises. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Baker & Taylor, best known for serving the library market, is working to up its business with independent booksellers in a series of initiatives overseen by David Cully, who was hired by the company six years ago as executive v-p of merchandising and president of retail sales. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
In 'Creature,' Amina Cain presents personal tales of female characters at loose ends.The peril of reading literary short stories is that one tends to encounter characters who behave not like you or me but like the kind of people one finds only in short stories. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
At first we looked at Minecraft as the basis for an interesting case study about how the Internet has changed things for entrepreneurs,” said Linus Larsson, coauthor of Minecraft: The Unlikely Tale of Markus “Notch” Persson and the Game that Changed Everything (which is coming from Seven Stories... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
"I was just sitting with my dog in the sun daydreaming and the book came along, the rabbit fur cover, the feeling of the thing, its weight," Iranian–New Zealander artist Nabil Sabio Azadi tells Co.Design of For You the Traveller, the world's furriest travel book, available this week for the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
At the 2013 Publishing Business Conference & Expo, Samir "Mr. Magazine" Husni and Bo Sacks faced off on the future of the magazine industry. Here's how it went: Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Executive | 2013-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Storied magazine publisher Time Inc. surprised its editors on Thursday by assigning them to report to division presidents instead of an editorial executive, leading some to wonder whether business interests would now trump those of edit.Time Inc. CEO Joe Ripp said the restructuring will make the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2013-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
As USA Today celebrates the 20th anniversary of its bestseller list, the organization says romance novels, children's books, and inspirational books defined the last two decades of reading. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
It’s an odd week when you follow up a review of a movie about a homophobe—Jean-Marc Vallée’s excellent Dallas Buyers Club—with a review of a movie by a homophobe, or, rather, based on a best-selling book by a very prominent one. Before the release of Ender’s Game, an adaptation by... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2013-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Over the past decade, I’ve visited a lot of central libraries—from Chicago to Liverpool to Denver—only to come home to New York and wonder, why don’t we have a great public library? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
There have been great advances in short-run digital printing (SRDP) and print-on-demand (POD) technologies over the last decade. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
When the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) released its “IAB Internet Advertising Report” in October 2013, one thing was clear: While digital remained strong, it was mobile that was quickly becoming a powerhouse. According to the report, in the first half of 2013, total mobile revenues surged... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Chegg, which offers textbooks for rent and other online services to college students, is looking to raise $172.5 million in its Initial Public Offering. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
When it comes to reading, I use a Kindle PaperWhite. I hate paper books with a passion -- they take up space and are obsolete. The Kindle is wonderful because it allows me to easily bookmark pages, look up definitions, and scan the book for certain words with the x-ray feature. An Amazon Prime... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
By Denis Wilson It's not uncommon for sister publications within a publishing company to partner on issues or share content. For its October issue, Wired collaborated with fellow Condé Nast title bon appétit on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Executive | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mashing up the places, characters and events of various works into one shared universe isn't exactly a new idea. Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton universe imagines that most of the great fictionalized characters of the last few hundred years – including Tarzan, Doc Savage, Dracula, James Bond,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michael Joseph has signed a five book fantasy series from crime author James Oswald. Writing as... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]