Hearst Magazines UK has appointed Microsoft ad executive Stephen Edwards to the new role of group digital sales director. Continue reading >> [ Source: Media Week | 2013-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Cookery writer Delia Smith is to receive a BAFTA Special Award at a tribute event on 30th April... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oxford University Press will shortly launch a consultation over jobs in its English Language... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google will launch an $81 million (€60 million) Digital Publishing Innovation Fund to assist French news organizations with their efforts to move their content online and to increase advertising revenues. President Francois Hollande an ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Two books about the events of Bloody Sunday have been made joint winners of the Christopher Ewart... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The BBC has denied "a deal has been done" to sell a majority stake in Lonely Planet,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tom McCarthy and James Salter are among the winners of the inaugural Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes. Tom McCarthy and James Salter are among the winners of the inaugural Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes, announced Monday at Yale University's Beinecke Rare... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Book Marketing Society's best marketing campaign awards for autumn 2012 have seen wins... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Following the scandal over Jonah Lehrer's book "Imagine" last year, Houghton Mifflin has pulled his earlier bestseller "How We Decided" from stores, citing “significant problems" with the book. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
For many children's book industry professionals around the globe, a trip to the Bologna Children's Book Fair has become a familiar, and always welcome, rite of spring. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Judging by the crowded sessions at the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting last January in Seattle, ebooks remain the most contested topic among public librarians. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The National Book Critics Circle Awards were awarded on Thursday. Among the winners was Ben Fountain's "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" for fiction, a book we tipped for prizes in the middle of last year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
A bill broadening protections for news publishers was approved by the Bundestag, but critics said the measure did not go far enough. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2013-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Although, for various reasons, a number of winners could not be there in person, the National Book Critics Circle awards were handed out February 28 before a large crowd at the New School in New York City. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The National Book Critics Circle honored works such as 'Far From the Tree' by Andrew Solomon and 'The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson' by Robert Caro during their 2012 awards ceremony. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Virgin Books has relaunched its fetish erotic fiction list Nexus in digital. Editor Peter Birch... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The German Bundestag has adopted a controversial, but weakened, online copyright bill that gives publishers the exclusive right to make commercial use of their publications on the Internet. The bill aims to protect publishers against systematic access to copyrighted content by search engine... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Social marketing isn’t close to peaking yet, but it’s already a part of almost every conversation between brands and marketers. Close to 90 percent of advertisers are using some form of it, according to a recent Nielsen study. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
For most b-to-b publishers, print has receded into a broader array of information services and marketing initiatives for brand partners, including events, digital and data. This is not news, but grappling with how this media mix impacts strategic focus going forward is still new. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Deutsche Telekom has confirmed it is bringing out an e-reader in collaboration with booksellers... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]