Dennis Publishing, the independent publisher of titles such as The Week, is breaking into the children's market for the first time with the launch of Berty Squiggles, a kids' colouring and activity magazine. Continue reading >> [ Source: Media Week | 2013-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
New Penguin Random House c.e.o. Markus Dohle has spoken of the "societal impact" made... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Adweek: Tell me about BuzzFeed’s Social Storytelling program, which you launched in May. Jon Steinberg: It’s very much evocative of the kind of authorization and training programs that we did when I was at Google [where Steinberg was strategic partner development manager on the company’s small... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2013-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
A crime-themed TV book club created by Amanda Ross, who was previously behind The Richard & Judy Book Club, is coming to ITV3 in September. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House parent company Bertelsmann reported this morning that profits at RH rose to 117 million euros from 113 million euros in the first half of 2012 despite a 3.4% sales decline to 915 million euros. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
A German privacy regulator is astonished that Facebook has added facial recognition to a proposed new privacy policy it published on Thursday. "It is astonishing to find the facial recognition again in the new proposed privacy policy that Facebook published yesterday. We therefore have directly... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2013-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the early 2000s, while working as a producer at ABC’s 20/20, Bill McGowan put together a branding video for a dot-com entrepreneur. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Not Just For Kids: Open, frank and ultimately optimistic, David Levithan's YA novel 'Two Boys Kissing' embraces the lost generation of gay men.When it came out in 2003, David Levithan's young-adult debut, "Boy Meets Boy," had the pinkish glow of wish fulfillment. Its gay-teen hero found love in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Smith & Son is to open two new campus bookshops in time for the new academic season next... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
"I'll give up my printed books when you pry the last one from my cold, dead hands." That's what I tell people when they ask me what kind of e–reader I have. As a technology journalist, author, and novelist, they expect me to own the latest Kindle or be an iBooks aficionado, and most seem... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Thanks to bestsellers like Dan Brown's Inferno and Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In, Random House Inc. boasted record profits for the first half of 2013, parent company Bertelsmann reported Friday in what will be the last earnings announcement for the publisher as a stand-alone unit. Sales, however,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
In a victory for transparency advocates in the wake of the PRISM secret surveillance scandal, U.S. intelligence agencies will begin revealing the number of surveillance orders they request per year under various FISA ordinances, as well as national security letters. The agencies will also reveal... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
In her debut novel, 'It's Not Love, It's Just Paris,' Patricia Engel explores the inner and outer lives of a young Colombian American in the City of Light.Patricia Engel sets her first novel in late '90s Paris, where recent college graduate Lita del Cielo arrives to take language classes for a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Although the growth of ebook sales has slowed in the first six months of 2013, there were still enough gains to largely mitigate the decline in print sales. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
A book by Robert Macfarlane, the chairman of judges of this year's Man Booker Prize is shortlisted for another literary award, the biennial Warwick Prize for Writing. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Almost exactly one year ago, the American Booksellers Association announced that it would replace its ebook partnership with Google for one with Kobo, in time for the 2012 holiday season. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
The death of Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney has been confirmed. The Irish poet, who was 74, died... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Smashwords, a self-publishing platform and indie ebook distributor, has launched a series of new features to aid authors and publishers in distribution and marketing of ebooks. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon has launched the Kindle store in Mexico with over 70,000 Spanish language ebooks. The e-... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
These days, wearable tech is a beast that cannot be stopped, even if we wanted to (we don't). We recently got wind of an application Motorola submitted to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (initially filed in February of 2012 and published today) for an electronic device designed "to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]