With a global television network operation in place, Bloomberg News is using video clips from its shows as well as Web-only videos to produce some 200 clips per day, signaling a new "digital first" approach, says Chris Berend ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
World Book Night, the celebration of reading which includes the distribution of free books, has arrived. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Julia Kingsford, chief executive of World Book Night, reported that the promotion was carried out... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Granta magazine editor John Freeman is leaving the publication after five years, with his final... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Simpson, chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary [pictured left] will retire in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sebastian Coe and Bradley Wiggins are among the sports stars included in the British Sports Book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
An entrepreneur is buying every MP a copy of Douglas Carswell’s book The End of Politics... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pushkin Press has acquired two further titles for its new imprint, One, with editor Elena Lappin... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
World Book Night gives away 500,000 print books. Wouldn't it make good sense to extend the promotion by offering free ebooks as well? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
A husband-and-wife bookselling team have described handing a petition into Downing Street calling... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookshops are an essential link between readers and authors, which is just one reason why we need to save them, say a prominent UK bookseller and UK journalist. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
A "daring" novel which explores the plight of foreign workers in Gulf countries has won... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Printed book sales fell below the £20m market last week - for the first time in almost 11... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
A German court has ruled that digital books cannot be resold by purchasers. The German District... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
World Book Night 2013 is being marked by a free hand out of 500,000 books and hundreds of literary events around the country. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon is hiring for positions in Russia, suggesting its Kindle ebookstore will open there soon and where they will take on several established, but not yet dominant, competitors. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber Factory and Macmillan Distribution (MDL) have announced a strategic partnership, which will... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tor UK has acquired a trilogy by Australian author Ben Peek, in a six-figure world rights deal... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tor UK has pre-empted UK rights in two novels by Australian author Rjurik Davidson, acquiring the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
British publishers have won nominations for the Eisner Awards, the USA's most prestigious... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]