David Beckham will hold a "groundbreaking" global digital book signing event on 30th... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tamil publishers are increasingly eager to find bestselling books to translate from English to Tamil, but there is little reciprocity. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Mainstreet Trading Company has won a competition to feature in a new book in the Busy Books... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-21 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 ]
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 ]
Could native advertising be hitting a wall? Marketers and publishers continue to fall all over themselves to create messaging that doesn’t look like advertising and that doesn’t annoy the reader. But the format is facing growing pains. “Agencies aren’t ready to turn on a dime and do this,” Rey... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 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 ]
HGTV Magazine is jumping on the e-commerce and social sharing trend. Its November issue, which hits newsstands Oct. 22, will let readers shop and share from the pages using technology from digital watermarking provider Digimarc. Digimarc did a similar deal with Hearst Magazines sibling pub... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2013-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ten books have been shortlisted for the Red House Children's Book Award, the only national... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
In their nearly 15 year tenure at art publisher Taschen, husband-and-wife writing team Charlotte and Peter Fiell authored and edited 38 books on art, design, and architecture. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Since Brian Jud took over as executive director of SPAN (Small Publishers Association of North America) at the start of 2013, he has moved quickly to carve a new niche for the association, which was renamed the Association of Publishers for Special Sales (APSS)on July 1. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Belfer Audio Archive at New York’s Syracuse University houses one of the preeminent collections of historical sound recordings in the U.S. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
There was a markedly optimistic tone at this year’s fall regional conferences and trade shows, held from September 20 to October 12 in airport hotels and conference centers from the Big Easy to Portland, Ore., and Providence, R.I. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Online booksellers like Amazon and Kobo have begun banning self-published titles featuring themes like incest and bestiality. But now, some readers complain, other erotic titles are disappearing as well. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Samsung is taking preorders on an updated version of its Ativ Book 9 Plus Ultrabook, which features a Core i7 processor and a touchscreen display with a native resolution of 3200 by 1800 pixels. The company expects to ship the new notebook in early November. The new Ativ Book 9 Plus looks a lot... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2013-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writer Sherman Alexie asked other authors to work at an indie bookstore on Small Business Saturday this year and hundreds of other writers have already pledged their support. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fabian Stelzer, EyeQuant's CEO, believes there's a science to how we view the Web. Whether on desktops or on mobile, whether we're male or female, young or old, our eyes will be drawn to certain common elements of web design–– a combination of contrasts, locations, contours and colors. Stelzer's... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Spanish author Clara Sánchez has won the 2013 Planeta Prize for her novel El cielo ha vuelto, a book about the nature of our economic and political environment. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has begun to send more than 58,000 refund checks to consumers who lost money to Green Millionaire, a company that promised a free book explaining how to power cars and homes at no cost, but then billed customers for an online magazine they never ordered. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2013-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Several self-publishing ebook platforms have censored rape, incest and other objectionable titles while others appear to continue profiting from them. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]