BookNet Canada’s first survey of where Canadians buy books and what types of books they buy found that about 16% of purchases in the first half of 2012 were of ebooks, while paperback remained the most popular format, with a 57% share. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Earlier this week, Random House shelled out more than $3.5 million for Lena Dunham’s first book, Not That Kind of Girl. She has an amazing résumé for anyone, let alone a 26-year-old, having directed two feature films and scored four Emmy nominations for her TV show, HBO’s Girls. But what makes... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2012-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
At the beginning of a standing-room-only Frankfurt Book Fair discussion, Richard Mollet, CEO of the U.K. Publishers Association, said he imagined there was a day 100 or more years ago at a book fair when, after yet another panel on how electricity was going to revolutionize the business, an... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Madeline L'Engle's classic 'A Wrinkle in Time' has been adapted into a graphic novel by writer and illustrator Hope Larson, the creative force behind the graphic novel 'Mercury.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
How to Be A Woman author Caitlin Moran is to join the judging panel for the 2013 Blue Peter Book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Spending on printed books in 2012 has passed the £1bn mark, but a fortnight later than last... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hot Key Books has bought three books from Observatory Mansions-author Edward Carey, his first... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins will introduce a “globally integrated system” for its editorial,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon is to launch its controversial Kindle Owners' Lending Library in the UK from the end... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Orion imprint Gollancz has signed three books by a début SF thriller author in a pre-empt... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new global book classification system that aims to reduce cross-border confusion about subject... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Junot Diaz, Dave Eggers, and Katherine Boo all made the cut for final consideration for the award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oyster, a fledgling mobile service for Spotify-style on-demand books, has raised $3 million in funding led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund. Oyster, which is still a work in progress, will let users of its mobile app access, discover, and read an ever-growing range of titles and genres, all on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2012-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
DC. Marvel. You. ComiXology, digital comics partner to the giants, wants your self-published creations. Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2012-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
WH Smith plans to open a trial store dedicated mainly to books, WHS BooksPlus, as the company... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publisher Sage has bought online primary sources publisher Adam Matthew, best known for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sharethrough founder and CEO Dan Greenberg is one of the more vocal evangelists of the native advertising talk that has recently bubbled up. While native advertising isn’t an easy sell to media buyers who typically prefer traditional buying methods, the online video advertising startup has grown... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2012-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Carrie Arcos, an L.A. mom whose first novel, 'Out of Reach,' is a young adult literature finalist, is in the company of Robert A. Caro, Junot Diaz and more.Carrie Arcos was mystified when she received an email from the National Book Foundation instructing her to call its office. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The books market in Italy has “deteriorated significantly” in 2011 and the first nine... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Complex Media, a trend-spotting network of style, sports and entertainment media aimed at 18-34 year old males, has now entered the food space with the launch of FirstWeFeast.com. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]