Granta is to reprint 25,000 hardbacks of Eleanor Catton's Man Booker Prize-winning The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Eleanor Catton has won the Man Booker Prize 2013 with The Luminaries. Catton's second novel... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kobo has said pornographic ebook material appeared alongside children’s literature on the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Profile is to republish a short story by Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
WH Smith takes its UK site completely offline while it removes pornographic abuse-themed ebooks from its product listings. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2013-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oscar Hijuelos, the author best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love," died Sunday, his publisher Gotham confirmed. Hijuelos was 62 and died in New York.Oscar Hijuelos, the author best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Mambo Kings Play... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 25th anniversary of We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
As digital publishing slowly but surely comes to eclipse traditional, printed media a big question arises: what happens to the publishing schedule when there are no fixed dealines? This is a problem being tackled head on by the Financial Time ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Neil Gaiman has said that closing libraries is "like stopping vaccinations", and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The refurbished Waterstones stores are seeing overall sales growth of between 5%–10%, m.d.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The writer Carl Bernstein has struck a deal to write a memoir of his early years as a cub reporter in Washington, his publisher, Henry Holt & Company, said on Monday. Rather than focusing on his famous tenure at The Washington Post, where wit ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
What good is native advertising if it doesn't talk like a native?To help advertisers, media companies are building teams, often called studios, that create sponsored content for advertisers. Here's a look at four publishers, and how their sponsored-content teams shape up.BuzzFeed Continue... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2013-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Responding to growing Washington attacks on data brokers, the Direct Marketing Association is mounting its biggest defense by unveiling a new study Monday during its annual conference in Chicago. The study quantifies how much of the economy is driven by companies that use consumer-level data to... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2013-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
First day sales in the UK for Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding topped 46,000... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hearst Magazine is moving Country Living's editorial operations to Birmingham, Ala., from its current location in New York, the company said Monday. Current edit staffers, who learned of the news Monday afternoon, will not make the move.Country Living's full-time edit staff in New York is "a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2013-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Thomas A. Silvestri, president and publisher of the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch, was elected president of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association Sunday afternoon. In addition to Solomon, the following officers were elected: Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Andrews McMeel Publishing has moved quickly to produce and promote Lang Leav’s Love & Misadventure, a 176-page volume containing 75 poems, as well as prose and illustrations, in which the author ruminates upon the highs and lows that inevitably accompany romantic relationships. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
In mid-September, James Patterson caught booksellers’ attention with something other than his latest bestseller, when he appeared on CBS This Morning and announced that he would give $1 million directly to independent bookstores in the form of grants. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
McDonald's Happy Meal: Books will be served with one of four original titles in Happy Meals for two weeks in the month of November. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tantor Media’s decision last year to begin publishing print books to augment its audiobook and ebook titles has paid dividends, helping to boost total company sales in a number of ways. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]