Hot on the heels of purchasing Blinkbox and Peter Gabriel's WE7, Tesco has purchased Andy McNab's ebook publishers, Mobcast. It seems clear that the British supermarket heavyweight is currently engaged in a phony war with rival Sainsburys, which snapped up Rovi, Global Media Vault and Anobii for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Atlantic Books has bought the rights to a new novel from Dutch writer Herman Koch, whose book The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
After the acquisition of San Antonio, Austin Monthly and Austin Monthly Home, Hadley Capital, a private equity firm specializing in acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, recapitalizations and add-on acquisitions, among other things, founded Open Sky Media in March 2011. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Profile has announced a sales hike of 23% for the year to end March 2012, with an operating... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tesco has bought digital book platform Mobcast for £4.5m in a bid to strengthen its digital... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Singularity & Co aims to rescue near-extinct 20th century sci-fi titles to ensure they still exist in the next one. Established from a Kickstarter campaign, the small team has already digitized and published A Plunge Into Space and The Torch, both with new cover art, while its third title... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Razorbill, the teenage imprint of Penguin Children's, has done the first English language... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The battle to keep online advertising yields and returns high in a market of infinite volume and little scarcity rages on. But some publishers are deciding that it's not their fellow broadcasters, magazines and newspaper who are the problem but t ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Peter James and Rose Tremain are among the authors competing on the longlist for this year's... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sony and Amazon’s 20p ebook offer shows no sign of coming to an end, with a Faber novel... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Woman's Own, IPC Connect's weekly women's title, is set to revamp its print edition and launch a standalone website. Continue reading >> [ Source: Media Week | 2012-09-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin’s Viking imprint has teamed up with digital developer TradeMobile to create an... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Weidenfeld & Nicolson will publish a celebration of the New Statesman magazine’s 100th... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
'This Is Not My Hat' is from Jon Klassen, creator of the award-winning 'I Want My Hat Back.'Picture books might be for kids who can't read, but parents have been known to enjoy them as well. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Over the past decade sales patterns have changed, with fall, or “holiday,” sales picking up later and later—often in the last two weeks of the season. But things could be different this year. With the closing of Borders, many stores saw a significant uptick last November, and for some, like San... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Despite shrinking sales, declining shelf space, and the rise in popularity of relatively inexpensive ebook editions, mass market paperback is still a category that can be used to break out an author—especially in tandem with other publishing formats. A number of publishers contacted by PW said... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Just how important Amazon’s Prime shipping offer has been to the online giant’s success can be seen in data recently compiled by the Codex Group. Last Monday, Amazon announced that Prime, which allows customers free two-day shipping for a $79 annual fee, had surpassed its free shipping on orders... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Eli Horowitz does not think of himself as someone who “fetishizes the book.” But he’s also seen what books become, in digital form, and has not always been impressed. A former managing editor and publisher at McSweeney’s, Horowitz describes much of what he has seen in the digital revolution in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Smartphone Junkies Would you admit not being able to live without your smartphone? Over two-thirds of respondents to a recent survey by the Online Publisher's Association did just that. The survey, conducted online with 2,540... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Executive | 2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Zadie Smith has spoken out about the importance of libraries, saying she owes her "... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]