Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has nearly doubled its stake in newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises, the parent company of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Lee's shares jumped nearly 20 percent on the news Wednesday, closing at $1 ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the market for a new e-reader? One could certainly do worse than Sony's Reader line. The company's been packing features onto its devices, and the already leaked latest entry is no different, with upgrades over its predecessor, packed into a newly redesigned body with bigger, better looking... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Carlton Books is the latest publisher to jump on the two-wheeled bandwagon, signing a biography... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Bookseller has begun its second annual search for its Rising Stars, a listing of the industry... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kobo's parent Rakuten claims to have sold 100,000 devices following a launch of the Kobo e-... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
One of the most eagerly awaited literary offerings this autumn is NW (Hamish Hamilton, September... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new children’s bookshop has opened in Essex, seeing “promising” sales in its... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Early this week news broke that Google is acquiring the venerable guidebook publisher Frommers. That comes on the heels of the search giant's eye-opening deal to purchase Zagat last year. It can't be that Sergey and Larry just like to travel. Rather it seems clear that Google has a plan to... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2012-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
News Limited is planning to get rid of 10 per cent of its photographers across the publisher's newspapers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Sydney Morning Herald | 2012-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers and Apple fighting the US' Department of Justice over agency pricing have hit back... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Quarto has reported results which "exceeded expectations" for the first half of 2012,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
If you've ever been so embroiled in a chat or sharing splurge that you've been told to "take it off of Twitter," you now can -- sort of. Twitter co-creators Biz Stone and Ev Williams have launched Branch and Medium, two companion services that (naturally) use a Twitter sign-in but narrow the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kobo's Android app recently enjoyed a brief stint of global superiority, but that playing field has been leveled with the company's latest update for iOS. Like the Android version, Kobo for iOS now includes support for Dutch, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Additionally, users will also... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple has opposed a government proposed judgment in an ebooks price-fixing lawsuit, stating that the judgement seeks to terminate and rewrite its contracts... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is to broadcast an evening of readings by this year's... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Wiley & Sons work to sell off unwanted assets as Google makes its foray into the publishing industry. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Booksellers Association has created a search button for host websites which will direct book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hodder & Stoughton and St Martin's Press have acquired a new Roman crime series from... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has launched a review of anti-corruption controls in several of its publishing arms, including News International in London. Murdoch told News Corp staff in a memo on Wednesday that the company recently launched ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
In 2008, The Daily Beast launched as an ambitious online effort by magazine legend Tina Brown. That effort took a detour two years ago, when it merged with old-line print publication Newsweek. The result is a publication that has crafted a model tha ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]