When The Huffington Post’s weekly iPad magazine Huffington transitioned from a pay model to free last August, advertising was intended to sustain the tablet-native title, as consumers had resisted paying for it. Almost a year postlaunch, it looks like advertisers are rejecting it, too. A... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2013-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
At what was supposed to be a routine final conference last Thursday, May 23, before the June 3 start of the government’s trial of Apple over ebook price-fixing charges, the company and its lawyers were given a glimpse of the challenges they face in clearing Apple’s name. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Samuel Johnson famously said “no man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
When New Harbinger Publications cofounders Matthew McKay and Patrick Fanning were establishing their small press in 1973, it was Fanning’s monthly reading of Popular Mechanics magazine that served as a step-by-step guide to book publishing for the partners. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Above the Treeline, which introduced its Edelweiss digital catalogue database to the industry at BookExpo America in 2009, continues to add to the services it provides to the 140 companies it works with, as well as to its 34,000 registered users. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Star Trek publishing program, anchored by Pocket Books for fiction and other formats and IDW for comic books, has exploded in the last few years. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
In this week's PublishNews Brazil, we look at Brasilia's debate on future of digital publishing, FNLIJ's awards for kid's lit, and Brazil's turn as the focus of the Gothenburg Book Fair in 2014. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
The beginnings of Ellora’s Cave, the Akron, Ohio–based publisher of erotic romance fiction, have become something of a publishing business legend. Tina M. Engler, a single mom at the time, began writing the kind of romance novels she wanted to read—novels written with explicit descriptions of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ingram is expanding the scope of the printing services it is offering to publishers through the launch of a program it is calling Life Print. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Does the Man Booker International Prize lose credibility by overlooking works in translation while favoring books originally written in English? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fan fiction authors will be able to publish and sell some titles in the US via new ebook platform Kindle Worlds. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2013-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
News Corp announces it will officially split its publishing and entertainment businesses on 28 June, two years after the UK phone-hacking scandal involving the News of the World. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Midpoint Trade Books has signed a distribution deal with Changing Lives Press, a New York-based publisher of self-help titles. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Blackwell’s plans to expand its store portfolio this year, starting with a site at Derby... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Massachusetts-based publisher Barefoot Books had previously cut ties with Barnes & Noble and Borders. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lea Michele has appeared in several Broadway productions and stars on the Fox musical series 'Glee.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Office of Fair Trading has cleared the acquisition of Nelson Thornes by Oxford University... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Orion has signed three new titles from bestselling novelist Katherine Webb, whose debut novel,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette has two novels on the three-strong shortlist for the £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Piccadilly Press has won a hotly contested UK auction for Holly Goldberg Sloan’s new novel... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]