According to Scribd's early analysis of user data of its ebook subscription service, 4.5 books were browsed for every book read. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Chet Van Duzer has spent a lot of time hunting sea monsters. Combing through centuries-old maps in libraries and museums around the world, he's found and studied scores of strange creatures. His new book explores how medieval and Renaissance cartographers drew on myths, literature, and the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2013-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Unbound, the crowdfunding publishing platform, has raised £1.2m in additional funding. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the Oct. 21 issue of Advertising Age, you'll find the closely watched annual Magazine A-List, which honors 10 glossies that are doing really, really well. I'm part of the editorial team that, each summer and fall, works on the list (which involves a lot of in-depth research and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2013-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michael Anthony, executive chef at Gramercy Tavern, discusses how writing the Gramercy Tavern Cookbook changed his life. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
When Vice first appeared on Ad Age's Magazine A-List in 2010, it raised more than few eyebrows among industry stalwarts. For one thing, it was the first free-distribution magazine Ad Age had ever honored. And another thing—OK, the main thing—Vice is a cheerfully irreverent, quasi-rude... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Broadcasters Sue MacGregor and Trevor Phillips and Robert McCrum, associate editor of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Audiobook publisher AudioGO has put its business operations on hold due to "recently... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oxford University Press is publishing a new series detailing the history of the press, spanning... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
A look at a the week's round of web musing on the future of publishing in concept, creative work, and technical production, after Frankfurt Book Fair. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Clay Risen, author of the guidebook American Whiskey, Bourbon & Rye talks about nostalgia and character. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Morrissey’s Autobiography, which Penguin published in the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe last Thursday, is that it exists at all. It has been rumored roughly forever. As recently as September, the Atlantic put together a convincing case that its... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2013-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
When Vice first appeared on Ad Age's Magazine A-List in 2010, it raised more than few eyebrows among industry stalwarts. For one thing, it was the first free-distribution magazine Ad Age had ever honored. And another thing -- OK, the main thing -- Vice is a cheerfully irreverent, quasi-rude... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2013-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
David Granger, Ad Age's 2013 Editor of the Year, has spent the last 16 years at the helm of Esquire magazine -- a time of both great upheaval and unprecedented innovation in the magazine business. He helped steer the Hearst title through a deep recession and out the other side, where it's now... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2013-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
When Conde Nast closed Gourmet in 2009, the company staked much of its epicurean business on Bon Appetit, a staid magazine with a big circulation but little traction outside the food category. But soon enough Conde Nast took another risk, assigning the title's reinvigoration to a pair of leaders... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2013-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Superworm, Julia Donaldson's tale of a resourceful worm and The 5th Wave, Rick Yancey's novel about an alien invasion, are among the 10 books shortlisted for the Red House Children's Book Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Characters from children's books often take on legendary status in the popular imagination. Peter Pan inspired his own pathological syndrome (and maybe R. Kelly's "I Believe I Can Fly"); Willy Wonka led to a real–world candy company; and hundreds of wannabe Hobbits live in commercially... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
The harmonisation of VAT across print and digital books could move a step closer this week with... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Educational Development Corp. reported that revenue for the second quarter ended August 31, 2013 rose 4.6%, to $5.7 million, but net earnings in the period fell to $56,400 from $138,200 in the second quarter of fiscal 2013. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scholastic is featuring its first ever TV ads for Liz Pichon's Tom Gates series next week,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]