HarperCollins imprint Blue Door has signed an adult novel by children’s author Alex Shearer... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin is teaming up with film production company Amber Entertainment to produce a book and film... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barnes & Noble's PubIt! self-publishing conduit has been active for well over two years, but you'd be forgiven for overlooking it with that somewhat forgettable (if very emphatic) name. The company might just know what you're thinking, as it's giving the service a considerably more memorable... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins imprint HarperPress will publish Margaret Thatcher’s autobiography as a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
A flurry of publishing activity has been prompted by the death of former prime minister... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lizzie Skurnick Books, named after the author who will oversee the titles, will re-release old favorites among young adult titles first published between the 1920s and 1980s. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin imprint Allen Lane will publish the first volume of Margaret Thatcher’s authorised... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The merger between Penguin and Random House has been approved by the EU. The European Commission... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Viking title Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II by Keith Lowe has... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Macmillan Distribution Service's Australian arm is reportedly to make 50 positions redundant... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hannah Sheppard, creative director at IPR License, reminds self-publishers that getting the basics right are key when pursuing international rights deals. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The film rights to YA debut novel Half Bad by Sally Green have been snapped up by Fox 2000, hard... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Between 2003 and 2012, media giant Gannett Co. shed more than 20,000 employees, some of them journalists at its television stations, local newspapers and flagship daily USA Today. Nonetheless, on a recent Saturday, the publisher sent recruiters to the Columbia University Graduate School of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Restructuring firm Hilco is reportedly poised to save 130 HMV-branded stores and 2,500 jobs in a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Firehouse World—an event that offers training, equipment and education for the fire service—was acquired by Cygnus Business Media about 11 years ago and following a tough market in 2007, which saw the down economy hit the public safety market particularly hard, the company has been reinvesting... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2013-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Slicebooks offers tools for producing re-mixable ebooks. But the implications of this go far beyond generating more sales, explains co-founder Jill Tomich. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The ebook market has begun to slow, with the post-Christmas peak in ebook sales less pronounced... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
A list of teachers’ favourite books compiled by the Times Educational Supplement (TES) has... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Steph Cha's debut novel begins as an homage to the famous gumshoe and Raymond Chandler before ending up exploring vastly different mean streets of L.A. Raymond Chandler is among the undisputed masters of crime fiction, especially for stories set on the mean Southern California streets. His... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers breathed a sigh of relief last week as federal judge Richard Sullivan dealt a setback to any potential resale market for digital books. In a forceful ruling in Capitol Records v. ReDigi, Sullivan held that the doctrine of “first sale,” which allows consumers to redistribute lawfully... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]