America's last major book store chain is shuttering locations as it tries to evolve for a digital future. Is this simply a tough transition, or the beginning of the end? Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2013-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Agent Juliet Mushens has joined Jonathan Conway at The Agency Group, as it opens a new UK... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Through a pair of tweets yesterday Mark McClusky and Evan Hansen announced a transition at the top editor spot at Condé Nast's Wired.com. Hansen is departing and McClusky, formerly the editorial development director, will be taking over the position, a role that Hansen had filled since 2005. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2013-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Neil Gaiman has partnered with Blackberry to create a reader-generated calendar powered through a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Baker & Taylor has appointed Sarah Walden to the role of buying director. Walden succeeds... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
j2 Global continues to build out its digital media portfolio with the acquisition of popular gamer lifestyle brand IGN Entertainment, a News Corp property. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2013-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Cambridge University Press has completed the sale of its U.S. warehouse and distribution facility in West Nyack, N.Y. CUP announced plans to sell the warehouse as part of a strategic process that included an agreement last summer with Ingram Publisher Services to have Ingram manage the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
E-book publisher RosettaBooks is to open an office in London, its first outside of the US. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin imprint Viking has signed comedian Jennifer Saunders' autobiography, to be published... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Government's official response to the Culture, Media and Sport's Select Committee... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Verso Books and Random House Publisher Services have agreed to partner, beginning July 1, 2013. RHPS will provide exclusive sales and distribution across all print and digital formats in North America for Verso's 80 titles per year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Egmont UK is the latest children's publisher to launch a new imprint, Red Shed, publishing... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Weidenfeld & Nicolson has acquired a debut novel by US journalist Rene Denfield. Publishing... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Waterstones managing director James Daunt has said it will take two years to transform the chain... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Education secretary Michael Gove's announcement of changes to the A-Level exam system has... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
It is no surprise to see aphorism alive and thriving in our current celebrity climate. The forgotten, it may be assumed, never said anything interesting, whereas choice words of the famous live forever at cocktail parties and in book reviews. To carry a portfolio of pithy quotations is to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2013-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
To listen to the Audio Book Club discussion of Pride and Prejudice, click the arrow on the player below. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2013-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google's long had a contentious relationship with France. But it seems the Mountain View-based company has come up with a way to squash that problem: by throwing money at it. Taking to the company's official blog today, Chairman Eric Schmidt announced the creation of a €60 million Digital... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
It’s been a year and a half since Joseph-Beth Booksellers, headquartered in Cincinnati, emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with a new owner, after founder Neil Van Uum was outbid in an auction by Robert Langley, his landlord at the Mall at Lexington Green in Lexington, Ky. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Annual subscriptions to Sullivan's new, independent The Dish blog are pre-selling at $19.95. Andrew Sullivan announced Wednesday, via Twitter, that his soon-to-be-self-published blog has just passed $500,000 in pre-subscription sales. The announcement comes less than a month after... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]