O'Reilly Media will close down its popular digital publishing conference, Tools of Change, but Tim O'Reilly promises to continue innovating the publishing process. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Texas Monthly, on the occasion of its 40th anniversary last September, redesigned the print magazine and followed that up with a relaunch of its website in February. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2013-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Condé Nast is taking its glossy, high-style images off the page and into the b-to-b marketplace. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2013-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Headline is to publish a memoir from former England football manager Sven-Göran Eriksson.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
In Brazil, Saraiva gets a new CEO, the Ministry of Culture moves oversite of book policies back to Brasilia, and a university press finds success with free ebooks by its professors. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Last year, Hearst Magazines head David Carey said his company would have a million people subscribing to its tablet editions by the end of 2012. That didn’t happen, and they ended December with something like 900,000 subscri ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette, the last holdout among America's "big six" publishers, will make its full ebook catalog available to nonprofit public libraries and school libraries across the nation on May 8th. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Graham Money [pictured], general manager of Hachette-owned distributor Bookpoint, is to retire in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barnes & Noble is adding the Google Play store to HD versions of its Nook tablet, in a bid to counter slowing sales of its devices.Nook HD and Nook HD+ customers will be able to access over 700,000 Android apps and games, millions of songs and more, besides the Chrome browser, Gmail,... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2013-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster has bought UK and Commonwealth rights in the autobiography of actor and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Chris Beckett has won the 2013 Arthur C Clarke award with Dark Eden (Corvus). Beckett... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Waterstones has pledged to raise £200,000 a year for Booktrust's new Children's... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Book sales in Bulgaria were up 10% in 2012, with publishers reporting more than 5,000 books were published the previous year, of which 1,500 were translations. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
City and regional magazines have, in general, historically been slower to adopt the more cutting-edge digital strategies that their consumer and b-to-b media cousins have pursued. There are exceptions, but the gap between print and digital revenues is still much wider than in other parts of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2013-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Profits at Simon & Schuster have risen in the in the first quarter of 2013, despite a fall in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Earnings at Time Warner Inc. grew 24% in the first three months of the year despite a slight drop in revenue, as the company benefited from strength in its television networks.Time Warner Inc. said Wednesday that first-quarter net income was $720 million, or 75 cents per share, compared with... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Kerry Wilkinson is to give up his day job as a BBC sports journalist after signing a deal... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins 360 has been expanded to make US books available in the UK, with Karen Davies... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
George R R Martin fans will have a new book for Christmas, with the fantasy writer compiling The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Adobe’s Digital Dispatch Adobe has been crowing recently about some numbers pointing to increased demand, innovative advertising models and new revenue streams in digital publishing. In April the company, known for its workflow and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Executive | 2013-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]