Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize-winning Bring Up the Bodies (Fourth Estate) has secured a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize-winning novel Bring Up The Bodies is named the best novel of 2012 at the Costa Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Cultural differences aside, China's book market is itself largely a self-contained entity—politically, socially and, more importantly, economically. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
News Publishing Co., parent corporation of the Rome News-Tribune, Calhoun Times, Walker County Messenger, Catoosa County News, Cedartown Standard and Rockmart Journal, has filed a petition for Chapter 11 reorganization. Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bath-based AudioGO has bought US audiobook publisher Blackstone Audio from founders Craig and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
For long-time ebook buyers indoctrinated in Amazon's convenient ecosystem, trying to make the switch to a competitor can lead to frustration and disappointment. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Christoph Mohn has succeeded Gunter Thielen as the chairman of the Bertelsmann supervisory board... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fresh from apparently wrangling online content fees from Google last month, Belgian newspaper websites will, in 2013, launch an industry-wide platform to take back their readers. Major Flemish- and French-language newspaper publishers, magazine publ ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-01-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Surprisingly, Apple leads Brazil's ebook sales, but by 2014 Amazon should dominate, with Kobo, Google, Saraiva and others behind. We explain why. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple plans to have 80,000 titles for sale on its iBookstore in Japan within a month,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Onswipe, a startup that helps publishers build websites optimized for iPads and other touchscreen devices, is closing out what sounds like a big year. Content published through the Onswipe platform reached 44 million unique visitors over the course o ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-01-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jamie Oliver's Jamie's 15-minute Meals (Michael Joseph) has retained pole position atop... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Doris Kearns Goodwin talks about her book 'Team of Rivals,' and what it was like to see her work come to life in Steven Spielberg's 'Lincoln.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Illustrator Quentin Blake is among the book trade figures who have been recognised in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishing and education company Pearson PLC agreed to invest $89.5 million for a 5 percent stake in Barnes & Noble Inc.'s digital-business unit, Nook Media LLC. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2012-12-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers often want to work closely with ebook outlets -- possibly a little too closely -- but it's rare that they involve themselves directly. Pearson is taking that uncommon step by making a 5 percent, $89.5 million investment in Nook Media, the joint venture between Barnes & Noble and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-12-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
UK publisher Pearson says it will invest in the Nook series of e-readers and tablets, buying a 5% stake in the business for $89.5m (£55.5m). Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-12-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sales of printed books soared to a three-year high in the UK last week as shoppers flooded the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookstore chain Barnes & Noble said Friday its holiday sales look disappointing and that publisher Pearson Plc took a 5% stake in its Nook e-reader business. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-12-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nearly a quarter of Americans have read ebooks in the past year, with the number of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-27 00:00:00 UTC ]