Jacks Thomas, currently CEO at Midas PR, will take over as new director of the London Book Fair in January 2013, succeeding Alistair Burtenshaw. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
A “beautifully designed” debut cookery book by London restaurateur Russell Norman has... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins is creating a new digital imprint—HarperTeen Impulse—focusing on young adult short stories and novellas, which sell for .99 cents to $2.99. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tuesday: Slate staffers pick their favorite books of 2012. Wednesday: The overlooked books of 2012. Thursday: Dan Kois’ 15 favorite books. Friday: The Slate Book Review Top 10. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Slate Book Review runs but 15 pieces a month. Hundreds upon hundreds of books fall through the cracks! We asked SBR writers what 2012 titles they felt were criminally underappreciated. Check out the buried treasures they unearthed. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Little, Brown imprint Sphere has signed four new novels from Carole Matthews. Catherine Burke,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
A book on the the political uprisings in the Middle East has won an English PEN Award for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google is fighting a proposal that would force it and other online aggregators to pay German newspaper and magazine publishers to display snippets of news in Web searches. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon has said that it is to open a European publishing wing headquartered in Luxembourg,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barnes & Noble has grown Nook digital content sales by 38% year-on-year in its second quarter... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The magazine industry’s faith in the future of tablets is not easing up, even though advertiser support for digital editions has been slow in coming and these platforms still represent a small fraction of overall distribution for most books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barnes & Noble's Nook unit didn't have its greatest quarter. The $160 million in revenue the new Microsoft-backed spin off raked in was slightly better than last year's $152 million, but still a significant drop from $220 million. In a sign of the growing ubiquity of e-readers however,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
At the Guadalajara Book Fair, Bill McCoy of the IDPF and Pablo Defendini of Safari Books encouraged publishers to abandon DRM, and set their own prices. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Politicians have backed the Reading Agency's Six Book Challenge in an attempt to improve... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Headline's UK and international sales director Aslan Byrne is moving to Random House as sales... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hodder imprint Two Roads has acquired two novels from "Newsnight" presenter Kirsty Wark... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Little, Brown commissioning editor Rowan Cope has acquired an acclaimed French novel about the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
It used to be easy to give your loved ones books for the holidays. You went to a bookstore, browsed the shelves , and picked out something thoughtful: Jodi Picoult’s latest for your mom, Harry Potter for your niece, maybe a Bill O’Reilly rant for that uncle who never shuts up at Thanksgiving. ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon is giving its KDP self-publishing platform a further push before Christmas by putting an... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
McGraw-Hill has signed an agreement to sell its education business, McGraw-Hill Education, to investment firm Apollo Global Management for $2.5 billion. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]