The National Literacy Trust’s Young Readers Programme will expand this year after increased... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Australian-born novelist Monica McInerney has signed a global publishing deal with Penguin for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
A library in south London has been hit by a fire, with more than 100 firefighters tackling the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Head of Zeus has acquired three new titles, including the debut novel from BBC Radio 4 presenter... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new novel exploring the fate of women caught up in Mexico’s drug wars will be published... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Newspaper publishers: Look outside your industry and toward models like HBO Go for the digital path forward, says the publisher of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Mike Klingensmith, who took the reins as publisher and CEO of the Star Tribune Media Co ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House has acquired a debut novel called Five Days Left by Julie Lawson at auction. ... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
A 30% rise in rent has forced London’s 16-year-old Lamb Bookshop to close. Owners Ben... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Steve Jobs biography published again, this time as a manga comic...sans superpowers or one shred of lycra. Walter Isaacson's official Steve Jobs biography is a heck of a read, but if the idea of trawling through lots of dead-tree text galls your inner geek, then you'll love the fact it's now... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Primatologist Jane Goodall and publisher Grand Central announced they will delay publication of Goodall's forthcoming book "Seeds of Hope" amidst accusations that certain passages were plagiarized. Primatologist Jane Goodall and publisher Grand Central have announced they will delay publication... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
The rise of interactivity, the building of brands and a revolutionary switch to systems which let... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Once an afterthought, children's nonfiction publishing is experiencing a revolution, especially in the US, where the segment grew by 5% in 2012. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
French Culture Minister Aurélie Filippetti has unveiled part of the government’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Europe and the rest of the world may trail the United States in the size of their ebook markets... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Borders’s closure in 2011 served as a gloomy backdrop for the panel at the New York Public Library on February 12, “The Future of Art Book Publishing,” whose title carried a hint of bad news for catalogues and monographs. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookstores may be closing right and left under the ebook onslaught, but a sort of traveling bookstore came back to life earlier this month with the launch of Books on Call NYC.The company, which sells books at author readings and other events, is the successor to Mobile Libris, which shut down... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
BBC is selling Lonely Planet, to NC2 Media, a Nashville-based digital media company, for $77.8 million — a $120 million less than what BBC bought it for in 2007. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pippa Middleton and David Goodwin have parted ways. Pippa Middleton's first book was a flop. But you haven't seen the last of Pippa Middleton and her writing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
In last week’s landmark ruling, the Supreme Court held that the first-sale doctrine—the provision in U.S. law that enables owners of legally acquired copies to redistribute them—is not limited to works made in the U.S. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Veteran Canadian publisher Scott McIntyre described the dismantling of D&M Publishers, the iconic Canadian independent publishing house he cofounded 40 years ago, as the result of an unfortunate confluence of circumstances. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]