BBC Worldwide may be looking to sell Lonely Planet, the Guardian has reported. The newspaper... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lion Hudson is launching a fiction imprint “as a platform for Christian novelists from all... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Spain’s financial crisis and slump in book sales has led Spanish-language publishers to focus on Latin America, with agents bypassing Spain to sell rights directly in the region. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2012-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hodder Children's Books has signed up a new picture book series for girls aged 4-7 by the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Cairo leg of the Edinburgh World Writers Conference has been cancelled due to the violent... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former Borders UK c.e.o. Philip Downer is to open a new store, selling books, gifts and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins Children's Books is launching a new teen series with a hunt for its cover star... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Comics and magazines have been two of the iPad’s bread and butter categories since the start. Symbolia combines the two. The recent folding of The Daily, News Corp’s much-ballyhooed tablet newspaper, proved one thing: a lumbering daily operation isn’t going to make sense for a news app... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2012-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers seem to have no end to their appetite for apps. This year through October, 9,125 publication-related apps were released for the iPad, twice the number released in the year-ago period, according to McPheters & Co.’s iMonitor app-tracking service. Hearst led publishers with the most... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2012-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
'The Twelve Tribes of Hattie,' a first novel for author Ayana Mathis, has become the latest book chosen for Oprah Winfrey's Book Club 2.0. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Irish bookseller Hughes & Hughes has partnered with Kobo to supply e-readers and ebooks.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Quadrille has acquired the tie-in title to forthcoming primetime BBC2 series, "The Great... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Erotic novelist EL James beats Kate Mosse and JoJo Moyes to win the National Book Awards popular fiction book of the year. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Terezin: A Story of the Holocaust by Ruth Thomson has won this year's £2,000 ALCS... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Wordclay.com, an online, bare-bones Do-it-Yourself service for print book publishing owned by Author Solutions, Inc. announced that it will close its virtual doors on December 31. In a statement, Worldclay said the increased preference for ebook publishing over print by self-published authors... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins has signed a world English language six-book deal with thriller writer Wilbur Smith... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
E L James has won the Specsavers Popular Fiction Book of the Year with her erotica smash-hit... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon has made a big selling point of X-ray for Kindle books -- but, not surprisingly, for its own platforms first. iOS readers can reclaim some equal footing today now that a Kindle 3.5 update is bringing X-ray to their devices. The addition lets iPad and iPhone bookworms see a map of where... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
A ruling on John Wiley & Sons Inc. v. Kirtsaeng – a case expected to come before the Supreme Court early next year – could make it illegal for non-profits and businesses to resell copyrighted works produced abroad. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Agency Curtis Brown has launched a digital self-publishing programme through Kindle Direct... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]