If you rely on a Kindle (or Kindle app) for reading, you probably know that it supports not only ebooks, but also PDFs. In fact, if you've done your homework, you also know that your Kindle (or Kindle app) has its own email address, meaning you can send any PDF straight to your device just by... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2013-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Robert Galbraith, who is really J.K. Rowling, caps his debut mystery novel, which is really her ninth book, by channeling Alfred, Lord Tennyson. “I am become a name,” thinks the private eye Cormoran Strike to himself when the case is solved, quoting Tennyson’s “Ulysses.” Strike’s right—he is... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2013-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Led by the news that Hugh Howey agent Kristin Nelson has signed self-publisher Barbara Freethy, who has sold 3 million books, the Ether looks at agent mystique. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Blackwell’s has acquired the Keele University campus bookshop from Waterstones, as it... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Meredith Corporation is set to launch a print version of its popular Allrecipies.com brand. The magazine is being rolled out as a bi-monthly publication and is slated to debut in August. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2013-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
On Monday it was announced that one juror who had found George Zimmerman not guilty had landed literary agent, Sharlene Martin. By 10 p.m., Martin announced she was dropping Juror B37 as a client.Maybe a book by a juror in the Trayvon Martin murder trial isn't such a good idea after all. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Meredith Corp. will introduce Allrecipes magazine, a spin-off of the cooking site it bought in 2012, the company said on Monday.The magazine will guarantee its advertisers an average paid circulation of 500,000 and publish six times a year, starting with a December issue planned to hit... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Grisham's The Racketeer (Hodder) was comfortably the bestselling book in the UK last... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Indonesia, home to the world's largest Muslim community and 1,000 active book publishers, will be the Guest of Honor country at the 2015 Frankfurt Book Fair. Indonesia's most well-known authors include Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Ayu Utami, and Andrea Hirata. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Less than two days after a Florida jury found George Zimmerman not guilty in the death of Trayvon Martin, juror B37, one of the six members of the anonymous panel, signed with a literary agent to shop her book about the trial. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2013-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pearson Australia has announced up to 75 potential redundancies as it looks to make changes... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
After it was revealed that JK Rowling wrote the crime novel, The Cuckoo's Calling, under pseudonym Robert Galbraith, book sales on Amazon have spiked by 507,000 percent. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new book provides a more comprehensive look at reproduction. Imagine a picture book that explains where babies come from--but never references gender. What Makes a Baby is described as "a book for every kind of family and for every kind of kid," which means it doesn’t matter if parents are... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Icon Books has signed a self-published self-help book directly from the author. Kate Hewson,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Literary agents Jonny Geller and Edina Imrik in London talk with Porter Anderson about Curtis Brown's and Ed Victor's author-publishing approaches. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Little, Brown has said printer Clays is "working around the clock" on Robert Galbraith/... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
JK Rowling's "secret" crime novel tops book charts after it is revealed she wrote it under a pseudonym. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Last week's court ruling that the price-matching provision in Apple's contracts with five major book publishers was part of a conspiracy to fix ebook prices, heaped doubt on such provisions, called most-favored-nation clauses. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2013-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Samsung announced this morning that it is taking pre-orders on its Ativ Book 9 Lite notebook PC, which was first announced on June 20. One of the most interesting features of the new notebook is the custom AMD CPU, which Samsung is describing as a “white-label” quad core. “It’s something we... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2013-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Booksellers say they are unable to get print stock of Robert Galbraith/J K Rowling's The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]