A British magazine distributed by a joint venture of Conde Nast and Hearst Corporation and aimed at primary school children has been featuring images of adult-rated video games. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2013-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barnes & Noble has said it is "fully committed to the retail concept" and has made... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon is reportedly readying an advertising push for displays on Kindle e-readers after pitching... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Porter Anderson's weekly curation of the best Web postings for authors takes in the UK's growing consternation over 20p ebooks, Amazon's untrustworthy reviews and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins is launching a new education publishing division in India which will mark its... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
City of York Council has been given £100,000 by the cabinet office to help it form a mutual... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tor has acquired a new trilogy by Charles Stross, with Tor US and Tor UK making a joint... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent publisher Short Books has scored its first ever Official UK Top 50 number one. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Cissy Houston, Whitney Houston's mother, has chosen the first anniversary of her death to publish a memoir, "Remembering Whitney". By the time Whitney Houston died in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton Hotel last February, tracking her deterioration had become a blood sport for the gossip rags. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
There will be a lot fewer old-fashioned books in the Big Apple over the next decade. Barnes & Noble announced Monday morning that it is planning to prune between 189 and 239 stores by 2023, from its current total of 689. Local real estate brokers speculate that some of those locations will... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Richard Newton's The Management Book: How to Manage Your Team to Deliver Outstanding Results... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hilary Mantel in the bookies favourite to win the Costa Book of the Year Prize, announced tonight... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Possibly the most successful house maid in the world, the children's book character Amelia Bedelia turns 50 on Tuesday. More than 35 million copies of the books have sold. Continue reading >> [ Source: ABC News | 2013-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
When it comes to book marketing, social media is a honeytrap, never quite delivering on its promises, but a few simple best practices can vastly improve your results. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
B&N will cut up to a third of its brick-and-mortar stores, slowly and carefully over 10 years. Bookseller Barnes & Noble has said it expects to shut up to a third of its real-world stores. CEO Mitchell Klipper has confirmed the plans in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. But... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Despite the advances in digital books and storytelling technology, Penguin executive Jeff Gomez says that publishers have so far focused on the wrong things. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
The c.e.o. of Foyles has called for publishers and suppliers to support bookshops with better... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scotland's East Neuk Festival of chamber music (3rd to 7th July) will feature an expanded... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Eleven leading academic associations have written an open letter condemning the government's... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Weidenfeld & Nicolson has acquired a new novel by US crime writer, Walter Mosley, which will... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]