Kobo's CEO discusses Brazil, the world, and how POD will be added to the Writing Life platform. Also, our tart critique of Apple's new "Brazilian" iBookstore. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2012-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Waterstones has launched a “light-hearted” branding campaign to coincide with selling... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
10 facts about media and content industries 1. Digitization has increased book sales. Expenditure on electronic books almost doubled each year in 2006-2010 but still amounts to only 3% of global book sales. Forecasts however predict that reve ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Midpoint Trade Books has signed a distribution deal with Bunker Hill Publishing, a New Hampshire-based independent publisher. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pearson has confirmed that it is in talks with Bertelsmann regarding a potential merger between... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Frank Cottrell Boyce’s The Unforgotten Coat, published by Walker, has won the 2012 Guardian... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ebury has acquired two books by author Rowan Coleman, with the author of The Accidental... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Icon Books' title The Horologicon by Mark Forsyth is following in the footsteps of its... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pan Macmillan has announced a reorganisation of its Children's publishing business, with the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
An online book discussion forum is the latest venture from the triborough library services in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
E.L. Doctorow, Michael Henry Heim and many other poets, authors and translators were given awards and honored during the 2012 PEN Literary Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2012-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster just got a little smaller. The publishing division of CBS Corp., known for Bob Woodward bestsellers, Glenn Beck polemics and Stephen King novels, announced Tuesday that it was consolidating its imprints into four publishing groups. Most significantly, the Free Press, a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2012-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Authors Margaret Atwood (pictured) and Naomi Alderman are to collaborate on a new fiction series... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins has released the digital figures of its Man Booker Prize-winning titles Wolf Hall... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Veteran cricket commentator Henry Blofeld will release an autobiography next year after a deal... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Dan Shepherd has been announced as the new global sales and marketing director at Dorling... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon will open a Kindle store in Japan next month, selling Japanese language Kindle e-readers... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
A lack of trained professionals, of distribution channels for books, of good infrastructure, and piracy plague Indian publishers, but a dialogue for change has begun. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2012-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Some 20 weeks before Newsweek set the media into a frenzy with its announcement of a digital-first publishing strategy, Jason Pontin was already grappling with how to move his 113-year-old publication toward a digital future. Pontin announced in June that MIT's Technology Review magazine would... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2012-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
By Alex Mutter Irish book retailer Eason opened a virtual, mobile bookshop at Connolly Station in Dublin on Monday, the Silicon Republic reports. The bookshop’s ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2012-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]