Mimi Spencer and Dr Michael Mosley's The Fast Diet (Short Books) proved once again the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Double Man Booker Prize-winner Hilary Mantel has made newspaper headlines today (19th February)... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber is preparing to publish a novel it has dubbed a "hand grenade tossed into the heart of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
A focus on collaboration across Macmillan’s global Science & Education division will... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Authors have admitted they welcome the “huge boost” in sales when their ebooks are... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jared Diamond is a master of cultural and historical bricolage. His books weave epic stories about the human condition from the disparate cultural practices of a wide range of people living in different environments. In his Pulitzer Prize–winning Guns, Germs, and Steel, Diamond used this... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2013-02-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
James Daunt has restated his view that Amazon operates in an advantageous fiscal environment in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon has fired the security company it employed to oversee its warehouse operations over... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperVoyager is marking this year's 50th anniversary of Ray Bradbury's classic sci fi... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Booksellers have praised the Foyles bookshop workshop as “inspiring” as the company... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jonathan Cape has announced the release date of the new James Bond novel, written by William Boyd... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Little, Brown has signed the latest novel from Donna Tartt. The publisher will release the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Homoerotic “Boy Love” manga aimed at young women and raunchy teen literature made up... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Colorado-based marketing company Cravebox, which has just begun to work with publishers, is something of an oddity. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Southern California author's first story collection draws from his experiences in high school basketball, plumbing sales and more.There's a subtle arc to Jim Gavin's first book, "Middle Men" (Simon & Schuster: 224 pp., $23). Gathering seven stories largely set in Southern California, it... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
At a time when many independent booksellers both here and abroad are beginning to gain traction selling Kobo ebooks, other retailers are eyeing the secondary market for ebooks and other digital content. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
After announcing in early February that it had discontinued sourcing paper from threatened Indonesian rainforests, a representative of Singapore-based Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) was at the International Toy Fair Show in New York last week to explain the policy to toy companies and children’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Finally, a way to browse the Kindle Lending Library in your browser. As an avid reader, and an especially big fan of ebooks, I thought subscribing to Amazon Prime seemed like a good idea. After all, the $79/year membership lets you check out one ebook per month from the Kindle Lending Library,... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2013-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Curation, technology and creating a cultural destination were three of the key themes... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Constable & Robinson has acquired a second cookery book from the 2011 winner of "The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]