After 45 years in Northern California, Pomegranate Press is moving its warehouse and offices to a 100,000 sq. ft. building in Portland, Ore.— both as a cost-saving measure and as a means of returning to an urban environment. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishing houses are Germany's intellectual backbone. For many years, they created a culture of literary abundance and generated healthy profits. But in the age of Amazon, ebooks and self-publishing, they could be facing demise. Continue reading >> [ Source: ABC News | 2013-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pan Macmillan South Africa has acquired world rights to a book which investigates the trial of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
The spinoff of Time Inc. to create the world's largest publicly-traded magazine publisher may be just the beginning of deals for the owner of People and Sports Illustrated.With analysts estimating an enterprise value of about $3.9 billion—a measure of what it could cost to buy a company—an... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pope Who? White smoke over the Vatican doesn't stand a chance as a trending topic next to the black cloud over one of Google's most beloved products. Google Reader has landed on the company's sunset list, and will wink out of existence on July 1. Problem is, Reader is not as widely beloved as... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michael Joseph will publish Mary Berry¹s autobiography this autumn. M.d. Louise Moore... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin imprint Hamish Hamilton will publish a new short story by Zadie Smith later this year.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
W H Smith has defended its record on book marketing promotions, after being accused by Biteback... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Two of crime's biggest names will work together for the first time next year when Peter James... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
How do you live with the knowledge that your baby is dying? A radiant new memoir chronicles the nine months after a mother's worst nightmare came true.Emily Rapp is not one to sugarcoat hard truths, including the brutal diagnosis she and her husband received in January 2011 when they took their... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent publisher Caffeine Nights is making two chapters of every one of its books free to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lindsey Davis, Jeffery Deaver and Peter James are to take part in this year’s Crimefest,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
As Asian authors come to prominence, the West should publish them, something that will be impossible without nurturing translators, says a Hong Kong literary agent Kelly Falconer. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Richard Fisher, m.d. of academic publishing for Cambridge University Press, has warned that Open... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has a book deal.Mr. Geithner has an agreement with Crown Publishers, an imprint of Random House, Inc. Crown announced Thursday that Geithner's book, currently untitled, is scheduled for 2014.Mr. Geithner plans a "behind-the-scenes" account of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Evidence is growing that a lack of skilled, knowledgable literary agents may be hindering the translation and publishing of books from developing markets in Asia and Latin America. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Cloud-based CMS, ecommerce and CRM services provider ePublishing has acquired Next-Tech Markets and its advertising network of business publishers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2013-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Less than 5% of all published books are available in an accessible format. Several organizations, notably Bookshare, are working to change that woeful statistic. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Picador is to publish the official film tie-in edition for the forthcoming adaptation of F Scott... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Folio Society is unveiled as the sponsor of new £40,000 literary award which will hand out its first accolade in 2014. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]