Hodder is planning its most "innovative" campaign for Jodi Picoult's next novel,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The San Francisco Chronicle launched its 49ers Insider digital magazine last week in advance of the team’s season-opener against the Green Bay Packers on Sunday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
I doubt the most brilliant novelist in the world could have created a more skewering satire of Naomi Wolf’s career than her latest book, Vagina: A Biography. One the most prominent feminists in the country writes about her failure to see Technicolor after having sex—“the colors were just... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2012-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new scheme to sell ebooks through schools could benefit school libraries, according to Bilbary... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
US digital publishing specialists Open Road will release Nicola Barker's Man Booker... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette Book Group chairman and c.e.o. David Young will return to the UK to head up Orion next... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Children's Laureate Julia Donaldson has warned that the UK is heading for a "less... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers are readying themselves to respond to an explosion of e-reading devices in the UK in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Blackwell’s bookshops has launched an M-Commerce site, giving its student market the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The price-fixing case turns out well for Amazon but unsettles many others in the industry.Publishing insiders worry that a decisive court ruling benefiting retailer Amazon.com Inc. will undermine an industry already struggling with the transition to ebooks. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
When a slide showing eight book covers popped up in Jeff Bezos’s presentation on Thursday, Jennifer 8. Lee--who was following along on a live blog from New York City--gasped. The books are part of Amazon’s new Kindle Serials format, and she published three of them: Hacker Mom, The Many Lives of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2012-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Playboy announces that it is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a 50-interviews-in-50-days ebook series. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon's new lineup of devices includes a Kindle Fire tablet with HD and other new features as well as a back-lit e-reader called the Kindle Paperwhite. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins has created a new role for Eric Winbolt to emphasise its focus on digital... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Titan Books has acquired two new authors, marking its move into more female-orientated fantasy... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
It’s been six years since the privately held Swedish media company Bonnier acquired Weldon Owen, the San Francisco company known for its packaging program built for retail clients as diverse as Williams-Sonoma and Hallmark. In that time, said Terry Newell, CEO and president of Weldon Owen—now... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Some well-kept secrets at Penguin Group, most notably the succession plan for its CEO, were put on display late Wednesday with the filing of an age discrimination lawsuit by the book publisher's former longtime head of corporate communications, Marilyn Ducksworth. Her lawyers charge Penguin with... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The chief executive and chief operating officer of Anobii will leave the business, being replaced... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
A judge has approved the settlement in the US of three publishers accused of conspiring to fix... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos took the stage at a large airplane hangar in Santa Monica, Calif., this morning and presented a dazzling, methodical, hourlong disquisition on the state of the technology business. He began by explaining why most of the iPad’s competitors have failed: “They’re gadgets,” he... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]