The website The Bookscore rounds up book reviews, assigns a ranking, and lets readers discuss literary news. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Livrada is hoping to create a niche for itself in a market that until now has been largely ignored: ebook gift cards. Its goal—to make ebook giving a more personal and streamlined experience—makes sense considering that gift card spending exceeded $100 billion in 2011 and, according to a Bowker... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
News Corporation is parting company with chief digital officer Jonathan Miller at the end of September, ahead of the separation of its publishing and entertainment business. Continue reading >> [ Source: Media Week | 2012-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
‘‘It’s an on-demand world,” said Glenn Nano, cofounder of startup AnswerQi. “People have unique needs and you can’t just give them off-the-shelf stuff.” Launched in May 2011, AnswerQi is a Web-based question and answer service that can provide immediate answers or detailed support for a wide... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Headline has acquired an illustrated book from Liverpool and England football captain, Steven... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
HMV has seen a 16% rise in book sales year on year after refocusing its core offer back onto... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
The newspaper business’s reliance on the industrial machine of printing and distributing is often understated. It’s a delicate ecosystem that can have a real effect on publisher margins – as the fluctuation in newsprint ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
While Barnes & Noble has created lots of buzz and headlines with its Nook e-reading devices, its future profitability lies in the sale of content. That was the message CEO William Lynch delivered to analysts last week in a conference call discussing first-quarter results. Improved gross... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Last August Books-a-Million’s $934,000 purchase of the leases for 14 Borders stores from U.S. bankruptcy court gave it entrée to seven new states above its stronghold in the Bible Belt. By year’s end, through the acquisition and assumption of more leases, BAM! had moved into 41 former Borders... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Analysts have predicted that this Christmas could herald a "real step change" for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kobo is to up the level of royalties self-published authors earn on its Writing Life platform by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin is set to publish a first-person account of the mission which killed Osama Bin Laden.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
What makes you pick up a book from the bookshelf (either physical or online)? Is it the cover, the blurb or the title? Perhaps a combination of all three? Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2012-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House parent company Bertelsmann has called a report surfacing in the German media that it... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel Wolf Hall (Fourth Estate) will be turned... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent publisher Persephone Books, specialising in reprinting forgotten 20th-century... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette Children’s imprint Orchard Books is to launch a Beast Quest spin-off series,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury is asking members of the public to star on the cover of a forthcoming novel. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins has created a new business role to improve its pricing strategies. Eloy Sasot,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bluemoose Books publisher Kevin Duffy has decided to abandon plans to publish The Secret Life of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]