American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis is what's known in online circles as a world–class troll. For the uninitiated, a troll is someone who expresses a controversial and often contrarian opinion in order to get a rise out of people and draw attention to himself. If someone is widely... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo removed self-published pornographic titles from their sites and Kobo stopped sales of self-published titles altogether. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The future of epic fantasy will be explored on a PW Webcast set for 1 p.m. today. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
When it comes to referral traffic from social networks, there's Facebook and Pinterest — and then there's everyone else. Facebook accounted for more than 10% of overall traffic to publishers in September, by ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Wholesaler Bertrams' latest financial results have seen growth from online traders, its... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Judging by the number of TED talks or books bouncing up and down the bestseller lists offering to help us bottle that elusive djinn, we should be living in the Age Of Creativity. If that's true, though, why are so many books and talks about creativity filled with so many clichés? How can books... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
PEN Center USA's 23rd annual literary awards festival went off without a hitch on Monday night -- except for the fact that its lifetime achievement award winner, Joan Didion, was not in attendance.PEN Center USA's 23rd annual literary awards festival went off without a hitch at the Beverly Hills... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
To many devoted readers, bookstores, and collectors, a book is good, but a signed book is best—and the absence of a title page to autograph is just another reason for purists to eschew those newfangled e-readers. A signed copy of a favorite book can be intensely meaningful to an avid fan. And in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Booker Prize winner Eleanor Catton wrote an 832-page murder mystery set in Catton's homeland, New Zealand. This is the last year that the Man Booker Prize will be open only to writers from the former British Empire. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Forty-five US states have adopted the Common Core, a set of standards that spell out what US public school students learn in each grade, from kindergarten to graduation. How would you match up? Test yourself on everything from Dickens to Dirda to see how familiar you are with the novels, poems,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins is to mark Michael Morpurgo's 70th birthday with a month-long celebration in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Quercus has signed two historical romances from debut author Natalie Meg Evans. Kathryn Taussig... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 2013 National Book Award finalists were announced on Wednesday, and for the first time, the National Book Foundation has offered a free ebook series with samples of the finalists' work.The 2013 National Book Award finalists were announced on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Wednesday, and for the first... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Joining a rising tide of magazines that are combining e-commerce with their articles and ads, Time Inc. women's title All You has begun connecting readers with retailers. Starting with the November issue of the magazine, a digital "watermark" guides readers via their smartphones to information... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Reviewers label latest book sad, desperate and irrelevant - but readers beg to differ. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Sydney Morning Herald | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
When David Shelley, publisher of Little, Brown U.K., arrived at a lunch to meet a potential new author named Robert Galbraith, he instead found a blonde woman sitting next to agent Neil Blair. "When she turned round I had the surprise of my life. She said, ‘I'm Jo.'" Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Not being able to control access to content as users bypass the paywall is a major challenge facing publishers. This is according to new research carried out by MPP Global Solutions as part of its latest webinar on the future of digital publishing m ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Children's author David Walliams will appear at the Palace Theatre in London on 7th... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lydia Newhouse has been appointed as senior commissioning editor at HarperCollins imprint Avon... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
New Zealand author Eleanor Catton, at the age of just 28, has become the younger ever winner of the Man Booker Prize for her novel "The Luminaries." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]