Sales of digital fiction books increased by 188% in value terms in the first half of the year,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fourteen titles have made this year's longlist for the £20,000 Samuel Johnson Prize for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Head of Zeus has appointed Richard Milbank as publishing director, non-fiction, with Milbank... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sales of digital books show impressive signs of growth, but some booksellers still face an uncertain future. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2012-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Book sales soared by more than £2m last week as a bounty of new books hit the shelves on... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Already the world’s largest global trade exhibition for the news publishing and media industry, the World Publishing Expo is expanding the conferences and seminars that accompany the event, making it even more attractive for the thousands o ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kobo’s UK manager Phil Wood described booksellers at yesterday's BA conference as... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins has closed a four-book deal with bestselling historical novelist Bernard Cornwell... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jamie Oliver will beat J K Rowling to the Christmas number one book spot, the majority of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Orion Children's Books has acquired a new title by wildlife expert and adventurer, Steve... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Psychologist Oliver James has gone to independent publisher Karnac for his next book, in a deal... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Specsavers has succeeded Galaxy as the headline sponsor of the National Book Awards, signing a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Square Peg has fought off twelve other publishers to acquire a book in a six-figure deal by the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Gardners Books unveiled its 6” colour ebook device GoTab at its annual trade show held... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Canongate and Bath independent Mr B's are co-publishing a hardback of novel The Howling... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Eric Obenauf, the publisher and editor-in-chief of Two Dollar Radio, the indie press headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, wants the seven-year-old company to publish more nonfiction, but he doesn’t want to produce more than the five or six titles—primarily fiction—that the publisher currently... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Reader's Digest is making an unusual move for the magazine industry today: Next year it will increase its annual frequency from 10 to 12 issues. The move undoes a frequency reduction that took effect in 2010 as part of a broader "transformation into an innovative multimedia brand" that also... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2012-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Created by the founders of BookSurge, the print-on-demand vendor acquired by Amazon, BiblioBoard is a new app and e-publishing platform that offers a library of public domain content bundled into subject category anthologies. The BiblioBoard app offers these BiblioLife anthologies at different... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
A controversial account of the US Navy SEAL raid that resulted in the death of Osama Bin Laden... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Harper Non-Fiction has bought a book from chart-topping choir, the Military Wives. Made up of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]