In 2011, Bloomsbury announced it was restructuring to facilitate a more global approach to publishing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jojo Moyes' latest novel, 'The Girl You Left Behind,' is a tale of two unsinkable women generations apart and the painting that connects them.At first glance, Jojo Moyes' third novel, "The Girl You Left Behind," bears a striking resemblance to a popular book for kids: "The Daring Book for Girls"... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
PEN America announced the winners of the 2013 PEN Literary Awards, a list that includes both notables and newcomers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
To mark the 35th anniversary of the Literary Agents and Scouts Center, the Frankfurt Book Fair is asking for photo submissions from the Agents Center's past. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
No one can accuse the print manufacturing industry of standing still. Every now and then, a major revolution or innovation would shake it up and get everybody guessing and thinking. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
U.S. District Judge Denise Cote, the jurist who ruled last month that Apple illegally conspired with five major publishers to raise prices of ebooks, has set a date for the trial that will determine the damages Apple owes. In an order issued this week, Cote said that barring some earlier... Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2013-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Harlequin announces an ebook-only imprint, in addition to planning for many ebook originals through other imprints. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
With sale up in both its education and trade groups, total revenue at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt rose 5% in the second quarter ended June 30, 2013 compared to the second quarter of 2012. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Seth Godin traces the ups and downs of the independent bookstore since WWII, while proclaiming that today is "a golden age for books," crediting Amazon. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Web publishing services firm Livefyre has started turning social media content into native advertising for a handful of publishers. Livefyre—which offers publishers social tools like commenting, live blogs and live chats—built Playstation-sponsored social hubs for IGN and AOL's Joystiq... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2013-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
A free app providing a tour of Edinburgh's 53 bookshops has been released onto iTunes. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ron Burgundy will be the name behind a book titled 'Let Me Off at the Top: My Classy Life and Other Musings.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Following up on a story on ESPN's global dominance, The Atlantic has published a series of charts that show why the sports network remains so expensive––and why men continue to pay for its premium. The network's internal research, which polls its subscribers (take from that what you will), finds... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Khaled Hosseini is to visit the UK in October for a Bloomsbury Institute event and media... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon imprint Thomas & Mercer is flying authors out to a party and conference in Seattle... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
The University of Georgia has released its annual survey measuring the success of journalism and mass communications majors in finding jobs after graduation. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2013-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Editor's NoteScroll down to see a full ranking of all of New York's neighborhoods by perceived class and perceived safety. In 1921, a young Swiss psychiatrist named Hermann Rorschach wrote a book called Psychodiagnostik containing 10 inkblot images he used to gauge mental patients' emotional... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
The American University in Cairo Press has said it is "carrying on" despite the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
It’s no secret that newspapers and magazine publishers have suffered steep declines in print circulation over the last decade, and that trend is just going to continue, according to a survey of 1,134 U.S. adults conducted by the Donald W. R ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
The new 'Harry Potter' covers, by artist and writer Kazu Kibuishi, were created to honor the 15th anniversary of the US publication of 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]