Quercus has announced its preliminary results for 2012, with a a fall in both profits and revenue... 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 ]
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 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 ]
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 ]
Headline has acquired New Adult trilogy The Games by self-published ebook bestseller Nyrae Dawn... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Last week two of China's leading ebookstores Dangdang.com began offering nearly all of their ebooks for free, a move criticized by authors and publishers alike. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Argosy sales manager Ronan Richmond has been awarded The Elements trophy for the Bookseller of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Waterstones owner Alexander Mamut is once again the highest-ranking trade figure on the Sunday... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Caffeine Nights Publishing has signed a novel from columnist and author Garry Bushell, which will... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Visitors to London's Science Museum will be offered a free ebook from author Tony White, to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Last Friday, when Amazon made 14 original TV pilots available for free viewing on its streaming video service, it launched an experiment that could do to TV production what the Internet juggernaut did to the book trade. The polite business term is disruption, but that’s not the word people whose... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2013-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Macmillan Children’s Books has appointed Stephanie Barton to the new position of pre-school... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
One of the two Waterstones shops in Leicester is to close with nine people under the threat of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jingdong, China's third place commercial online bookstore, is boosting its challenge to Dangdang and Amazon's dominance by focusing on service and international titles. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mari Evans is to join Headline as publishing director, fiction, with a brief to lead its... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Most readers who preordered Charlaine Harris’s forthcoming Sookie Stackhouse novel, Dead Ever After (which will be released May 7), likely did so at Amazon, where it is 45% off and has hovered in the top 50 for weeks. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
The most surprising bestseller in international markets in March was in the Netherlands, where John Williams’s classic novel Stoner reached #1. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
After 15 years working in traditional publishing in New York City—the last five as v-p, online consumer sales and marketing, at Penguin—Jeff Gomez moved to San Francisco to take a job with Byliner, a digital short-content publishing venture, as head of writer marketing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
E-book reading is becoming more common, and one way publishers are trying to take advantage of the growth in the use of digital readers is by plumbing their backlists, refurbishing classic and forgotten literature with new digital editions. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]