'Dangerous Women,' which is co-edited by George R.R. Martin, will be released Dec. 3. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scrabble is a game that puts on airs. It’s more than a living-room pastime, its partisans argue. Played at the highest level, it’s as complex as chess. Scrabble is so strategically sophisticated, in fact, that—as readers of Slate contributor Stefan Fatsis’ best-selling book Word Freak know—there... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The cover for the new James Bond novel, Solo, written by William Boyd, will feature a retro-... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
In an allegory of the print industry at large, military exchanges are dropping close to 900 magazine titles from their newsstands to make room for products like consumer electronics. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
American publishers are faced with numerous challenges when it comes to publishing translations. Editor Ben Rosenthal offers several creative financial models as possible solutions. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The birthday of Harry Potter falls on July 31 (which also happens to be the birthday of J.K Rowling). In the Potter universe, the days are usually eventful ones. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
President Obama appeared as scheduled at a Chattanooga, Tenn., Amazon warehouse and praised the business, causing even more independent booksellers to express their displeasure with his endorsement. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ken Michaels is to join Macmillan Science and Education at the end of the month as its chief... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook announced today that it's rolling out embedded posts. That means you'll be able to click on a link in whatever you publish, get a code, and embed that content elsewhere on the Web-just like you can already do with YouTube, Twitter, Vine and Instagram. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
J K Rowling's The Cuckoo's Calling (Mulholland Books) has soared to the summit of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Neil Morrison has been appointed as group HR director and Helena Peacock as group legal director... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
A competition has been launched for Chinese readers to translate stories by novelist David... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The longlist for the 2013 Polari First Book Prize has been revealed, with two self-published... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Challenged by shrinking sales and online piracy, Poland’s publishing industry aims to mitigate losses with more stringent price regulation, reports Jaroslaw Adamowski. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
New documents published in The Guardian reveal that the NSA can snoop on you in real time--and that the agency is building a giant keyword-based database of everything connected to the Internet, including Word and Excel docs on users' hard drives. Sometimes life seems a lot like dystopian... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barnes & Noble says it lost less money than it previously reported during the past two years. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
For most of us the digital revolution started some time ago. Working in journalism for nearly 15 years means that I have seen things change enormously, but even back in the late 1990s it was clear that the web was where it was at -- or where it was going to be. Newspapers and magazines have had... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2013-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
A study conducted by ShareThis found that mobile devices are much more popular than desktops for sharing content. ShareThis tracked social activity across 2.4 million sites in its network, and found that consumers are nearly twice as likely to click and share content through mobile devices... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2013-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
It’s been around since 1997, but Microsoft’s Compiled HTML Help (CHM) format is still often used for application help files, ebooks and more. If you’re working on a PC then that’s no problem -- the files are easy to read -- but if you need to browse them on other platforms, then you might like... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2013-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Watkins Publishing has promoted Grace Cheetham to the role of publisher, food and drink, for the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]