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 ]
In Latin America, ebooks are a huge opportunity for governments to provide their citizens with access to quality content while overcoming the problem of distribution. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
The largest children’s library in Mexico—Biblioteca BS-IBBY México—in Mexico City boasts some 25,000 titles, of which more than 3,000 are in digital format. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Stacy Lellos, VP of Marketing and Multi-Platform Publishing, and Aimee Friedman, executive editor, both at Scholastic give a peek into the future of YA publishing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Advertising Standards Authority has told Amazon it must change the wording of its Prime offer... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ebury has signed up an autobiography from "The Only Way is Essex" star Gemma Collins.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google is taking on the German government with a new "Defend Your Net" campaign that aims to fight attempts there to pass a law that would allow German newspaper publishers to charge fees to Google for providing links to newspaper stories. ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster Inc. is getting on the self-publishing bandwagon. The book publishing division of CBS Corp. announced Tuesday that it has joined with veteran self-publishing firm Author Solutions, Inc., to form Archway Publishing, a service that will focus on writers who want to publish... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2012-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Born out of a British book and funded by Hollywood, The Hobbit is also a movie that has its heart in New Zealand. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2012-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mobile reading may revive entire genres of literature, such as mid-length novels and poems, which have fallen out of favor. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2012-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury has been forced to pulp 6,000 copies of a novel after wrongly labelling it as the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
UK publisher Routledge has apologised to political campaigner Peter Tatchell for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House UK has launched its first digital consumer campaign for Christmas on dedicated... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
A couple of years ago, I embarked on a quixotic quest: I gave up the Internet. Surfing, emailing, YouTube-watching—it had taken over my life, eating into time I wanted to be spending with my family, my students, and my work. I documented my four-month Internet fast in a series of articles for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2012-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jeff Kinney's new Diary of a Wimpy Kid novel, The Third Wheel (Puffin), has proved the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Founded by a writer and mother, Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day is set for Dec. 1 this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Johnston Press, the regional newspaper publisher of The Scotsman and the Yorkshire Post, has appointed BBC digital marketer Lucy Sinclair to the new role of group audience development and marketing director. Continue reading >> [ Source: Media Week | 2012-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the modern world of book publishing, should we all be preparing for a second career as an entrepreneur? Plenty of our colleagues are choosing that career path. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette Children's Books has begun making its picture books available as ebooks from... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
John McCullough's poetry collection Frost Fairs has won the Polari First Book Prize 2012.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]