Library volunteers are, in many cases, being left without sufficient support to deliver services... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Prometheus Books announced today a multiyear sales and distribution partnership with Random House Publisher Services (RHPS), beginning April 1, 2013, RHPS will provide exclusive sales and distribution for all Prometheus physical and digital titles in the United States and internationally. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Granta has acquired a “searing short novel”, The Dig, by Welsh author Cynan Jones.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Union Books has acquired a "strikingly original" non-fiction debut, The Will to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Comedy and “new adult” will be among the hot trends for 2013, according to children... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hardbound books, apparently, are soooo 20th century -- at least for the upcoming BiblioTech library in San Antonio, Texas' south side. When the shiny, new public library opens its doors to bookworms this fall, visitors will notice something important missing: actual books. Instead, the facility... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins saw a rise in turnover but a fall in profits last year, according to its results... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
De Arbeiderspers/A W Bruna, the largest publisher in the Netherlands, has removed DRM from its e-... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Harlequin's Mira imprint will be publishing The Returned, a high-concept literary debut novel... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
From Clay Foster, chairman and CEO of Journal Inc. and publisher of the Daily Journal: Today’s paper is the culmination of months of planning and hard work to go live on a new printing press. In challenging economic times this was not an e ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
No one would have been able to predict at the start of 2012 that a BDSM erotic romantic trilogy—Fifty Shades—would set new records for book sales and change/spice up what women worldwide would admit to be reading, many for the first time. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Move over Michelin and Frommer. There's a new guide to travel in town, and it comes from the creators of Wikipedia. Wikivoyage, currently in beta, will be ready for prime time on January 15, according to the travel site Skift. Earlier this week, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said during an... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2013-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sales at independent bookstores rose almost 8 percent during the year, according to data from about 500 stores. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Local and national booksellers discuss some of the books they're most anticipating in 2013.Looking ahead to books in 2013 is a little like predicting the Los Angeles weather: sunny, pleasant, better than average. The fiction fields are fertile, the nonfiction skies clear and the young adult... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
The fast food restaurant chain is aiming to distribute 15 million books by the end of 2014. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Trade magazines Publishers Weekly and The Bookseller have put out new lists analyzing the bestselling books of 2012. No surprise, but E.L. James dominated. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize shortlist includes books from Pakistan, Malaysia, Japan, Turkey and India; Orhan Pamuk competes with four other finalists. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nielsen BookScan began including book sales from Wal-Mart in its service starting with the week ending January 6, 2013, and the addition shed at least some light on the impact that the world’s largest retailer has in the book indusstry. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Evan S. Connell, novelist, poet, short story writer, and bestselling author of Son of the Morning Star, Mrs. Bridge, Mr. Bridge, Deus lo Volt! and The White Lantern, among other books, died on January 9 at his home in Santa Fe, N.M., following several years of declining health. He was 88. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ten-year-old Black Lawrence Press, an imprint of Dzanc Books, had its editorial approach to publishing contemporary literature and creative nonfiction affirmed last month when the National Endowment of the Arts chose three of its authors to receive 2013 Literature Fellowships. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]