Sage has launched a transatlantic campaign with other social science bodies to raise awareness of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
We swear, we won't be giving you the blow-by-blow on every single app that gets updated for iOS 7 today, but this one seemed like a biggie. Amazon just announced that its Kindle reader for iOS has received a major redesign, with fonts, menus and other details retooled to match the flat,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Rowling wrote her book, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," when she was a single mother, receiving government benefits. She's now asking the government to step up support for Britain's poor.Without help from the British government, there might never have been a Harry Potter. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Headline Publishing Group has announced two changes to its marketing and publicity departments,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Century and Arrow have signed a four-book deal with bestselling saga author Katie Flynn. Editor... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Man Booker Prize has extended its criteria and will from next year accept any novels... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Johnson Publishing has secured a line of credit as it continues to "reposition" itself in the marketplace. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2013-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Harlequin UK imprint Mira is to publish David Solomons’ Not Another Happy Ending, based on... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lee Milstein, who had been heading up YouTube's efforts to link up with news organizations, has left to become chief strategy officer at OverDrive, a company that distributes digital books to libraries. Cleveland-based OverDrive, which handles the Kindle Lending Library program for Amazon, plans... Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2013-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Patterson says a bookstore will need to be 'viable' and have a kids' section to qualify for a donation. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Chicago Defender President and Publisher Michael House is stepping down. House will retire effective Sept. 30 and will take a position with the National Newspaper Publishers Association, the Washington, D.C.-based federation that represents more th ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
We write the equivalent of 520 million books every day on social media and email. The fact that so many of us are writing ? sharing our ideas, good and bad ? has changed the way we think. Just as we now live in public, so do we think in public. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2013-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The value of the printed book market rose for a third consecutive week last week. It was helped... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
If the Man Booker Prize does open itself to US writers, the administrators could have a tough job... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Bexar County Digital Library doesn't have printed books – instead it lets patrons check out ebooks and audiobooks. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nine of the ten poets on the longlist are receiving their first recognition from the National Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
News reports are saying American authors will be considered for the prestigious UK literary prize next year, while the Booker Prize organizers say these stories are 'incomplete' but haven't discounted the possibility. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Usborne is encouraging bookshops across the nation to take part in Usborne Day on Saturday 5th... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber is to publish a book of lyrics and notebooks from Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis. So... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kate DiCamillo and David Levithan were among the 10 authors who made the first-ever long-list of finalists for the National Book Awards, part of a new nominating process that prize organizers hope will lead to increased attention and sales.Ms. DiCamillo and Mr. Levithan were nominees in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]