The annual search to find the best publishers, retailers, agents, librarians and supply... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Her 'Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See' follows a bipolar Hollywood studio executive in three parts of his unstable life.Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Parsing through the top 10 bestsellers of 2012 in a number of major publishing categories reads like a usual suspects list, as a small number of authors filled a large number of spots. 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 ]
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 ]
Another year of "breakneck" digital growth, a resurgence on the high street, further... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Arcadia Books has been rescued from administration by a media facilitator called MediaFund, with... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House has Random House Films. Macmillan has Macmillan Films. And Penguin? Although the house has been low-key about the ways it has begun to dip its corporate toes into film production, and Hollywood, it, too, is making inroads there. One way is with Penguin Development Group. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Unit sales of print books fell in every region of the country in 2012, with the largest declines coming along the coasts. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hot Key Books is publishing Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner with a new adult-focused jacket, to be... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
On August 22, 2012, 13 days before Quebecers went to the polls in one of the most hotly contested provincial elections of the past two decades, Quebec’s book industry launched its One Price for Books campaign (noslivresàjusteprix.com). Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-01-11 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 ]
Vintage Books and Aimer Media have released a Haruki Murakami diary app containing six new... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Captain Hook becomes a Nazi and Peter Pan is a freedom fighter in the series 'Peter Panzerfaust.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishing is at a watershed moment, says George Lossius, CEO at Publishing Technology, forecasting a future with more consolidation and exploration. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Macmillan Children's Books has appointed Alyx Price [left] to the role of communications... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Aptly titled new Tumblr "Lousy Book Covers" collects the delightfully dubious achievements in jacket design. The book Spending Christmas With a Yeti is already at a marketplace disadvantage, what with that title, but then there’s the book cover. Oh boy, where to start. The real-life... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Titan Comics has teamed up with comics veteran Dave Elliot on a new co-publishing venture which... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Literary agency Greene & Heaton has made some structural changes at the agency, with Carol... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Still have an old Kindle Touch sitting around? You have some new features to play with. Despite replacing it with a brighter son, Amazon is still updating its original touch sensitive e-reader -- outfitting it with a new UI, enhanced parental controls and Whispersync for Voice, which shares... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]