EU regulators will next month accept an offer by Apple and four publishers to end the antitrust... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
First Barnes & Noble, then Indigo Books and Music and Books-A-Million – now some indie bookstores are choosing not to add Amazon-published titles to their bookshelves. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Culture, Media and Sport select committee report into library closures has recommended that... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple has announced sales of three million units internationally for its latest tablet devices,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Titles from Orchard Books and Jonathan Cape have won this year's Roald Dahl Funny Prizes,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers are literally driving engagement between the print product and digital platforms by linking print magazines directly to smartphones. The idea aims to neutralize the “either-or” aspect of print and mobile and merge the strengths of both. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
According to Reuters, EU regulators look likely to accept an offer from Apple and a handful of publishers, including Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Hachette Livre and Macmillan. The assembled publishers propose that they will allow retailers (including Amazon) to sell ebooks cheaper than... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pan Macmillan is the latest publisher to start offering creative writing tutoring. It will begin... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tunisia’s ISLAMeBooks, one of several new digital start-ups in the Arab world, is looking to help explain Islamic practice and theology to a wider readership. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
AA Publishing has moved quickly to correct the digital version of its book Landscape Photographer... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Broadcaster Simon Mayo is longlisted for the prestigious Carnegie Medal literary award for his first novel, Itch. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Online and across various digital products, publishers have long touted their audience volume as the primary success metric—CPM rates are based on these numbers, after all. But engagement and performance metrics are also valued, especially via social media, which can greatly increase engagement... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
More Info Hands-on with Kobo's Glo and Mini e-readers (video) Kobo Glo review: another illuminated e-reader lights up the market Amazon Kindle Paperwhite review While tablet and smartphone manufacturers battled it out over screen sizes, e-reader makers seem to have settled on an... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sales of children's books soared last week as schools broke for the first holiday of the new... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Spanish publishing house Alfaguara will publish Mexican author Carlos Fuentes's last novel, Federico en Su Balcon, posthumously later this week. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The United Arab Emirates is punching above its weight in terms of the development of its book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The trick to making the Random House/Penguin Group merger work will be to create a publisher that can take advantage of the resources and economies of scale a company with revenue of $4 billion brings and combine that with an editorial approach that emphasizes close cooperation with authors,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Campaigners hoping to save Kensal Rise Library from being turned into flats are staging a protest... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
This week's issue of PublishNews Brazil features an interview with Penguin CEO John Makinson, an overview of Brazil's ebook market, and Saraiva's latest sales numbers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Macmillan Dictionaries will only be available online from the new year, with Macmillan Education... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]