Tune in to this year's Books in Browsers conference live from San Francisco. Books in Browsers is a summit for the next generation of publishing companies exploring the digital future of reading online. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Angela Jackson has won the 2013 Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award, sponsored... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Two years ago, Samir Patil surveyed his publishing floor in Mumbai, one of 10 he owned, and saw death. It was not for a lack of lively activity. His company, ACK Media, shipped roughly six million books, magazines and DVDs across India every month. I ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Every year Ad Age's Magazine A-List honors glossy titles that are doing great in print and intelligently building their brands in digital media or elsewhere, and you can find the new 2013 edition right here.But which brands are the biggest repeat winners?We charted the biggest winners in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Actors Joanna Lumley, Julia McKenzie, Rob Brydon and Miranda Hart are to star in the BBC1... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Indie publisher Sort Of Books is celebrating the centenary of the birth of Moomins creator Tove... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
The shortlist for the £15,000 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry has been revealed, with publishers... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
An exhibition on New York's graffiti traces the history of the art form in the city, a Parisian museum shows how immigrants helped shape comic books worldwide - and other stories from the world of arts. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Last night's episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., "Girl in the Flower Dress," didn't feature many overt comic book callbacks, but it did live firmly in the kind of post-Avengers, post-comic book universe that all the Marvel characters seem to occupy, regardless of medium. And the residents of that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nosy Crow and Random House Children’s Publishers have three titles apiece on the Roald Dahl... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Bloomsbury Group has recorded a 13% rise in turnover in the first half of the year to £... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
OpenGate Capital, a global private buyout firm, splashed into media with the acquisition of TV Guide Magazine five years ago. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent Publishers Group has added 13 independent presses to it client roster. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Last week, Adweek wrote about a Dartmouth study on mobile advertising (Top 7 Reasons Why Mobile Ads Don't Work). Curt Hecht, chief global revenue at Weather, came back with a few reason why they do. Adweek: People often knock mobile ads, particularly display ads. It seems tough for the average... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
"City of Night" was not the first overtly gay-themed book but it may be the most unapologetic, a searing screed of life on the edge.I spent part of Wednesday afternoon at UCLA, on a panel to celebrate the 50th anniversary of John Rechy’s novel “City of Night,” newly reissued to commemorate the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Eddie Marsan and Bertie Carvel are to star in the forthcoming BBC1 adaptation of Susanna Clarke... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Total revenue at Amazon increased 24%, to $17.09 billion, in the third quarter of 2013 while its operating loss was $25 million, down from $28 million in the third quarter of 2012. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
The London Book Fair has begun a consultation over the fair's future location following the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bestselling author Salman Rushdie shares his thoughts on writing, living in hiding, and the subjectivity of freedom. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
There's a secret language spoken in the often self–serious world of wine tasting: Words like awkward, clone, note, legs, bouquet, and thief suddenly don't mean what they normally mean. For amateur imbibers, sommelier jargon and that weird front–of–teeth slurping and spitting thing can seem like... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]