Retailers and publishers are reporting persistent problems with HarperCollins' distribution... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
YUDU Media is to make a push into the education market with the launch of YUDU Education, a new... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
J K Rowling chose Little, Brown publisher David Shelley to publish The Casual Vacancy "... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin is understood to have begun a review of its travel division, with staff informed today (... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Edinburgh Bookshop is changing hands after five years so that founders Vanessa and Malcolm... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Spain's increasing involvement in the Eurozone crisis, along with government austerity... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kobo has announced a partnership to sell its e-readers through Fnac stores in Portugal as it ups... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Harvill Secker has pre-empted the first two books in a new series from Eva Dolan, who was... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
While reading Ryan Holiday's Fast Company story about books being the ultimate new business card, as a published author, I couldn't agree more. However, as Holiday points out, today's authors are in the "idea-making business, not the book business." In other words, writing your own book is just... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2012-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Condé Nast's decision to start a French edition of Vanity Fair has some media executives questioning why the American publisher insisted on announcing the news now, amid a stubborn economic crisis. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2012-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Illustrated reference publisher Weldon Owen has bought a title for its launch list by zoologist,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers say the plan to abolish competing exam boards as GCSEs are scrapped in favour of new... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Maxim magazine is cutting the paid circulation it guarantees advertisers from 2.5 million to 2 million next year, a 20% drop, and reducing its publishing frequency to 10 issues next year from 11 this year. Last year Maxim published 12 issues. Maxim President Ben Madden said the magazine... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2012-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Having grown revenue to just under £20 million since its launch in 2003 to the year ended March 31, 2012, largely on the strength of inexpensive children’s and adult print books, Igloo Books, based in Northamptonshire, England, is looking to digital and international markets to drive its next... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Since the publisher’s launch in early 2009, the Experiment’s biggest success has surprised even its staff: Forks over Knives: The Plant-Based Way to Health has become a smash hit, selling 127,000 copies since its publication in summer 2011 (it’s also the #47 bestselling book of the year so far... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury is expanding internationally, with the launch of Bloomsbury India today (21st... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Books by Francesca Simon, Anthony Horowitz, Shirley Hughes and Lauren Child will be included in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Allison & Busby has acquired two crime writers for this November. Publishing director Susie... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers and retailers need to better understand each others businesses in order to improve a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette UK has launched the first of its new corporate websites, with an emphasis on visually... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]