The San Diego Reader is mining gold from its rich archives and releasing the treasures as a collection of six eBooks, the first installment of a series that will showcase the literary quality and historic value of a collection spanning more than 40 y ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Guardian Faber has signed a book on Edward Snowden by Guardian foreign correspondent Luke Harding... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
BtoB Magazine is shutting down its print product and will become part of sister publication, Advertising Age, by January 1, in a move that likely reflects sustained pressure on print advertising in the med Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2013-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former Facebook employee Kate Losse says Eggers used her personal story as the narrative for his novel 'The Circle.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ten library services around the country will receive a share of £450,000 designed to help... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pan Macmillan has bought two novels by writing collaboration "S L Grey", in a "... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hey there, Engadget's main news feed will soon be changing over to a new version featuring excerpted content. You'll still get the headlines and a good chunk of each post, but for those wanting the full story, you'll need to click through to the site (which has been the industry standard way of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Advertising Age's new eBook collection is informative, practical and easy to read. These guides, available on Amazon's Kindle, expertly cover current marketing topics and are designed to be a resource for marketers at every level, in any business.In "Winning with Facebook Advertising," readers... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2013-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Quercus has signed world rights to a YA novel it describes as "The Handmaid's Tale meets... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
TaeWoo Kim, CEO of Moglue — the Korean platform for book app development — reflects on the first year in business after launching his publishing-related startup. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Many of us associate Scribd with embedded documents on websites, but the company has been quietly building an ebook platform -- first by selling content and later by soft-launching a subscription service. The company is now making its strategy clear by formally launching the ebook service and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Whether publishers want it or not, the Netflix model is coming to the book business.The San Francisco startup Scribd, best known as a site for posting PDFs of documents, announced Tuesday it is launching a multi-platform digital book subscription service that will provide access to a wide range... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ebooks remain less than 1% of the market in India, but 'even the niche in India is a big number,' says the regional director for Kobo — which is launching 'soon.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
For professional looking design, Adobe Creative Suite products such as InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop are feature-rich tools you can use to create stunning projects. But using them isn’t cheap. Creative Cloud, which gives you Web access to these software offerings is $50 a month, and even... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The title of the 2014 Sarah Waters novel is to be The Paying Guests, publisher Virago has... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lord Sebastian Coe has been longlisted for the £25,000 William Hill Sports Book of the Year... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The real problem with ebooks is that they're more 'e' than book, so an entirely different set of rules govern what someone can and can't do with them compared to physical books, especially when it comes to pricing. The collusion in pricing has been a public issue for a while, but we need to talk... Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sainsbury’s has launched a month-long promotion offering ebooks for 99p each. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
In a letter it issued Tuesday, the PEN American Center is asking the government to revisit its decision to block Bulgarian-German author Ilija Trojanov from entering the country. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
'12 Years a Slave,' which screened at the Toronto Film Festival, is already being discussed as an Oscar Best Picture frontrunner. The movie arrives in theaters Oct. 18. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]