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 ]
Kate Beaton first made waves in the webcomic scene with her history comics at Hark! A Vagrant. She's since published a graphic novel collection that hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list for graphic novels, and at New York Comic Con today, she announced her latest project: a children's... Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2013-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Is PJ Pereira, Pereira & O'Dell's chief creative officer, the next J.K. Rowling?Not content with winning three Grand Prix awards at the Cannes Lions festival and an Emmy for his agency's hit social-film campaigns for Intel and Toshiba, Mr. Pereira's first book "Gods of Both Worlds" is out... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2013-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon removes abuse-themed ebooks from its Kindle Store after a report highlights titles depicting rape, incest and bestiality. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2013-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
A barrage of self-indulgent snippets get in the way of a series of hazy short stories that can be, at times, engaging.When will James Franco slow down? The prince of perpetual motion continues his blur of activity, starring in movies, writing screenplays, attending classes, unveiling solo art... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
It's 2050. Somehow we haven't joined the dinosaurs in extinction, succumbed to the Secret Society of Super Villains, or been raptured up to the clouds. And the robots are friendly, not evil. Futurologist and environmentalist Sir Jonathan Porritt's The World We Made: Alex McKay's Story from 2050,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
If there a theme emerged from the deal-making at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, it was the dominance of HarperCollins as a buyer of big books, and of William Morris Endeavor as the seller of those books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster will distribute Yilin Press ebooks to Chinese readers around the world. The distribution agreement was signed at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Val McDermid tells the BBC's Nick Higham about her latest book Cross and Burn, the eighth novel in The Wire in the Blood series. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Canadian author Alice Munro wins the Nobel Prize for literature. Here, her publisher and literary agency react to the news at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Erie Times-News and www.GoErie.com, based in Erie, PA, owned by Times Publishing Company, announced that it has released new tablet apps for the iPad and Kindle Fire, new smartphone apps for iPhone and Android, and HTML5 mobile web to its readers. Th ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Otis Chandler, Richard Nash, Dominique Raccah, Charlie Redmayne, John Sargent are the five personalities in the running for FutureBooks' Most Inspiring Digital Person. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury executive director Richard Charkin has been selected as the vice president of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The author of literary thriller The Killing Lessons, snapped up by Orion at auction on the eve of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scholastic has bought world English rights to a three-book fantasy adventure series by UK author... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Two members of Philadelphia Inquirer owner Interstate General Media LLC sued the company and the newspaper’s publisher over the ouster of editor-in-chief Bill Marimow. Marimow, a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, was fired Oct. 7 w ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The first Canadian winner, Alice Munro has published nothing but short stories in a 50-year career. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Sydney Morning Herald | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Leading Brazilian children's publishers are in the spotlight this year at the Frankfurt Book Fair, and demonstrate Brazil's growing rights business with markets around the world. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The murder of 73-year-old Dr Choje Akong Rinpoche, author of Taming the Tiger (Rider), has been... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Heavyweight coverage for Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch (Little, Brown, October 22nd) kicks off... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]