Bookshops in the UK have halved in seven years, while consumers spent £261 million on e-... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette UK saw 250,000 ebook sales between Christmas Day and Boxing Day, The Bookseller can... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-27 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 ]
Newsweek, the 80-year-old US current affairs magazine, features a Twitter-style hashtag on the cover of its last ever print edition. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2012-12-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Unlike the owners of a physical tome, buyers of ebooks are licensees with lots of limitations. It's time to change the rules.There's a crass old joke about how you can never buy beer, just rent it. Who would think that the same joke applies to book buying in the digital age? Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Between December 3 and December 14, Amazon ran its “12 Days, 12 Books” promotion, which saw limited supplies of 12 books reduced to bargain prices over 12 days. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scholastic Corporation has reported a 10% year-on-year drop in revenue in the second... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Appearing on all three November lists highlighted this week is Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives by Pope Benedict XVI. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Book-buyers have picked up bigger bargains than ever before in 2012, with retailers... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
For your holiday pleasure we offer our own version of The Twelve Days of Christmas, customized for the publishing business. Enjoy and happy holidays! Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2012-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury, with its new Just Great Reads promotion, is running what it is calling the "first ever" global marketing campaign targeted expressly at readers who favor devices. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
The most recent sign that self-publishing is on the rise? New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani chose a self-released book as one of her favorite titles of the year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
News Corporation said its publishing wing, which is set to be split off as a separate business, incurred losses of $2.1bn in the last financial year. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
A free ebook of our best work just in time for the holidays. Makes a great gift for wordy nerds! And much cheaper than a Battlestar Galactica box set. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2012-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
The consumer ebook market was worth more than £90m in the first 10 months of 2012... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
The media conglomerate, which plans to separate its entertainment businesses from its publishing businesses into two separate listed stocks next year, said the publishing company would have reported a net loss of $2.08 billion in the year through June 30 if it had been a stand-alone company. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2012-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
News Corp, the parent company of HarperCollins, has formally applied to separate the company into... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber has teamed up with publishers from different sectors to create an interactive version of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Agard has been given the royal seal of approval as the winner of Her Majesty’s Gold... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
The government is to introduce exceptions to copyright law that would allow individual users to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]