Book publishing has been famously slow to embrace technology, but some industry executives are hoping it's never too late to change. Taking a page from the tech community, an independent publisher and a top talent agency will announce Monday that they have joined forces to host the first-ever... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
It's well off the triple year-over-year growth that ebooks saw a few years ago, but the latest report from the Association of American Publishers shows that ebooks did inch up even further in 2012 to account for a sizeable chunk of overall book sales. According to its figures, ebooks now... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Time was, when a company got a winning product (or formula), it was set for a few generations, or at least for several years. Not so today—even less so in the content or in the digital space. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Novelist Salley Vickers is heading to cathedral cities across the UK in a themed tour for her new... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
E-books are affecting bargain books, like everything else in the publishing industry. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Book publishing is a business of high stakes gambles—and trade book publishers continue to make the right bets.Helped by blockbuster titles Fifty Shades of Grey and The Hunger Games, the industry posted net revenue of $7.1 billion in 2012, up 6.2% from the prior year, according to the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
A sense of displacement permeates the 'Telex from Cuba' writer's second novel, set amid the social and political unrest of Manhattan and Italy in the 1970s.Rachel Kushner's house in Angelino Heights feels about a million miles — and a million years — from the tumult embodied in her novels. There... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
The new James B. Hunt Library at North Carolina State University shows what can happen when you marry a library with cutting-edge technology and interesting design--plus an automated librarian. In a digital age where many commentators tolled the death knell for the book-bound library, we’ve... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Over the course of its 100-year history, Harvard University Press in Cambridge, Mass., has had to navigate difficult times. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House is launching a debut author with a new free-to-play online narrative game, Black... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
New deals for Joanne Harris and Kate Mosse have been sealed just ahead of the London Book Fair.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House has appointed ePubDirect to manage distribution of ebook assets and provide retail support for the UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and India. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
While books about Pope Francis have been the biggest story in Catholic publishing lately (see second story)—along with books that look back at Benedict’s tenure and focus on the papacy itself—others take a wider-angle view of the Church, or offer wisdom and encouragement for those in the pews. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin imprint Hamish Hamilton has bought the next novel from Man Booker Prize-shortlisted... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hodder & Stoughton has acquired fantasy thriller Angelfall by Susan Ee, a novel originally... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ten fiction titles and six poetry collections finalists have been announced as the finalists for this year's Best Translated Book Awards. The winners will be revealed May 3rd. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
"The Office" writer B.J. Novak signed a two-book deal with Knopf. The first title will be a collection of stories based on some of his previous performances. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Thanks to a certain middle-aged former TV producer called Erika James and a little publishing phenomenon called Fifty Shades of Grey, erotica seems to have not so much crept its way into the mainstream, as landed with noisy squawks and a puff of feathers on the bestseller charts. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2013-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
A previously unpublished writer has won the inaugural Historical Novel Society International... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
With ebook and total digital sales posting steady—if generally smaller—increases in 2012, sales of print books held up fairly well across the book trade and at most major houses. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]