Libraries are 'important' to their communities, say 91 percent of Americans in a Pew survey, but they need more ebooks and more programs for children. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies are to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Seven Stories, the national centre for children's books, is making a final push to galvanise... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Yet another sign that the media world marches toward digital is at Rodale. In a move to expand the healthy lifestyle publisher's mobile commerce, big data and social technologies, it has hired Condé Nast executive Bobby Chowdhury as its first ever chief technology officer.Mr. Chowdhury, 51, has... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kobo has appointed former Apple sales director Jean-Marc Dupuis to oversee its European expansion... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the UK, Vintage Books and Aimer Media have launched a Haruki Murakami inspired diary app for Apple devices. The "Murakami Diary" offers 6 new exclusive short stories for £1.99. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the face of stagnant growth in traditional advertising, digital publishers are looking to sponsored content as an alternative route, something Buzzfeed has been doing well, and The Atlantic has been doing less well recently. It's an approach ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
E-book retailer Anobii is changing its name to eBooks by Sainsbury’s. The move comes six... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
As the world is being set up to facilitate frictionless commercial transactions between diverse cultures, is literary fiction losing its role? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
HONOLULU/LIHUE – Oahu Publications, Inc. (OPI) and Kauai Publishing Co. announced today that OPI has purchased The Garden Island newspaper from Lee Enterprises, of Davenport, Iowa. The expected closing date is February 11, 2013. Financial ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sales of printed books plummeted with the mercury last week, with data from book sales monitors... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The conference looks to explore many of the issues surrounding the past, present and future of cookbooks and recipe content. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster is set to publish an “angling adventure full of drama” titled... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
While most newspaper publishers are shifting their design attention to websites and digital applications, The News Tribune in Tacoma, Wash., is doing the opposite. The daily publication launched its new design last November. Executive editor ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
As it emerges from a hellish bankruptcy, the next phase for the storied news publisher is bound to be better than the last. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2013-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Pew report assures us that, even in the digital age, libraries continue to serve a variety of functions.Perhaps the most groundbreaking aspect of “Library Services in the Digital Age,” the report released today by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project is how... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The government's proposal for a new copyright exception on the photocopying of education... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Copyright Licensing Agency has warned that the government's proposed exceptions to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
More children are going digital, according to Scholastic's latest study, and the percentage of boys reading passionately and for fun is up, while girls are down. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Restructuring company Hilco has bought HMV’s debt, taking effective control of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]