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 ]
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 ]
Google has won the right to appeal the granting of class status to thousands of authors suing the search engine company over its ambitious plan to create the world's largest digital books library. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 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 ]
Twitter cofounders Biz Stone and Evan Williams today offered a preview of Medium, their new publishing platform. Medium is at heart a blogging service, although right now it's only open to a select few authors. The posts are organized into "collections" that use different layouts depending on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2012-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Orchard Books has appointed Kate Burns to the role of publisher for picture books, gift and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Transworld has acquired a book which promises to lift the lid on doping in the world of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
International publisher Pearson is setting up a college in the UK to teach degree courses, a first for a FTSE 100 company. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
A ballet based on fairy tale Rapunzel, written by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, is to tour the UK after premiering at the Durham Book Festival in October. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Quercus is set to publish a new book from reality TV star Francis Boulle. The 23-year-old... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Printed book sales in the UK slumped 7% (£1.8m) to £24.5m week on week in the second... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Wiley & Sons is changing the way it licenses journals published under its Open Access... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Campaigners trying to create a community library in Kensal Rise are seeking £70,000 of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette UK has insisted its model of selling ebooks with Digital Rights Management included [... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oxford University Press is to put its scholarly editions online for the first time in a digital... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Transworld Ireland has launched a new imprint, Doubleday Ireland, aiming to "discover... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Got an email from a “fan” outraged that a novel I’ve been working on for two years, six days a week is $13 in ebook. Enjoy your $4 coffee. – Author Brent Weeks, via Twitter Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2012-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy has been knocked from the top of the Amazon Kindle store by an e... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google is to reduce the visibility of websites that attract a high number of copyright removal... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google has bought the travel brand Frommer's from John Wiley & Son, in a move that sees... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]