Penguin profits have dropped by £20m in the first half of 2012 to £22m, nearly... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin UK's focus on brand strategy and going direct to the consumer will continue into the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new book by historian James Holland has been bought in two six-figure deals after bids,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
It turns out the Fifty Shades craze is not restricted to the U.S. On all three charts tracked this month, E.L. James’s blockbuster book placed high on the list. In Spain and Italy, where Fifty Shades of Grey debuted in June, it landed at #1 and #2, respectively. In the Netherlands, the book... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
More than the half the libraries in Tameside, Greater Manchester, could be lost as the borough... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Licensing has long played an important role in the cookbook category. While most of the action has been in brands and cooking shows that have been extended into licensed cookbooks, more recently quite a few characters and entertainment properties have entered the category, and those deals have... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury has begun releasing prequel e-novellas for free through online girls’... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Arrow has acquired six novellas that follow on from Francine Pascal's adult novel, Sweet... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Since 1988, QVC, the trailblazing, hugely popular home-shopping television network with a companion Web site, has been selling books in the cooking, motivational, children’s, and design categories, marketing celebrity authors in much the same way it sells the other 1,400 items offered each week... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Polarised views on low ebook prices have been raised this week, as Sony and Amazon continue to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber and Faber has added to their growing music list by acquiring the rights for the memoirs of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
After packaging for a number of American publishers, among them Focal Press, St. Martin’s, Abrams, and Chronicle, U.K.-based Ilex Press is entering the U.S. with its own line of books that is being distributed by Ingram Publisher Services. Founded in 2000 by U.K. publishing veteran Alastair... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
If you’re a Slovenian fan of J.K. Rowling, and you’re eager to get your hands on the first available copy of her forthcoming novel, The Casual Vacancy, you’re probably going to have to read the book in English. This will also be the case in Italy, Finland, and several other countries. And the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster’s Atria imprint has teamed up with British independent publisher Short Books to start a new imprint called Marble Arch Press. The imprint—the name refers to the famous London landmark near Hyde Park—will premiere in fall 2012, releasing (in the U.S. and Canada) roughly 12... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sales of London-themed Olympic 2012 books shot up 21% last week, as booksellers reported a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Avon has signed four more books by Jacqui Rose, whose debut was a bestseller in ebook format.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Authors Stephen King and Stewart O’Nan are embarking on a new short fiction project to be... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
The editor of Newsweek Daily Beast wrote to reassure staff members after comments by Barry Diller about the future of a print version of the magazine. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2012-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
As print continues to decline and digital often struggles to live up to the hype, events are offering higher profits than print and, for many publishers, far higher revenues than digital. Luxury consumer magazine and media company Dwell, however, is leveraging all of these different groups and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
The embattled St. Mark's Bookshop has a new defender. Lucky Ant, a year-old, hyper-local crowd-funding platform, is helping the 35-year-old East Village literary landmark raise the money it needs to move to a cheaper location. The online campaign, at Luckyant.com, launched Wednesday at midnight,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2012-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]