JK Rowling's novel, The Casual Vacancy, suffers a formatting error in the US making it near-impossible to read on some e-readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2012-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Industry insiders are predicting further restructures across the travel sector, following news... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barnes & Noble will release its self-publishing platform PubIt in the UK following the launch... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
J K Rowling has said the decisions about the strict embargoes surrounding the release of her... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
The launch of a government review into ebook lending in public libraries has been met with a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bestselling author JK Rowling spoke for the first time in public last night about her new novel The Casual Vacancy, which signals the coming of age of the Harry Potter generation. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2012-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin imprint Michael Joseph has snapped up an Australian debut novel which they describe as a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 7th Woman by Frédérique Molay is a serial killer novel that’s sold over 150,000 copies in France and has been published in seven languages, in addition to its native French. You can add English to that list on October 23, when indie startup Le French Book brings it to the U.S. as an ebook,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Almost four decades after Richard Grossinger and Lindy Hough founded North Atlantic Books in Vermont, the press, which has been in Berkeley, Calif., since 1977, continues to evolve within the body, mind, and spirit segment. From a two-person operation with roots in the poetry journal Io that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
It was the talk of the London Book Fair. Then it was the talk of the summer. Then it became the book news story of the year. The Fifty Shades series—an originally self-published erotica written as Twilight fan fiction—was too new a phenomenon in April, when the London Book Fair was underway, to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Albuquerque Publishing Company – the advertising sales, production and distribution agent for New Mexico’s largest and most read newspaper, the Albuquerque Journal – is live with Atex Advertising. The Atex syst ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Walker has appointed Julia Posen to the newly-created position of executive vice-president and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Renowned Nigerian author Chinua Achebe publishes his long-awaited memoir, There Was a Country, about the brutal three-year Biafran war. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Aurum Press has won a five-way auction for a non-fiction title about the Golden Age of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Select Committee Report into library closures will not be released until the end of October... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Little, Brown has said it intends to pursue "vigorously" anyone who pirates the ebook... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
First, this is not Harry Potter. Those hoping for a dusting of Dumbledore, a sprinkling of Snape... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Booksellers have become book writers for a popular science project from Icon Books. Icon’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Casual Vacancy, the first adult novel by Harry Potter creator JK Rowling, receives a mixed response from newspaper critics. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
In an effort to gain subscribers, Fortune has relaunched its iPad app with a mix of free and paid content. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]