Two novels that have received praise in the US – 'Bring Up the Bodies' by Hilary Mantel and 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry' by Rachel Joyce – made the cut. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michael Joseph is partnering with erotic boutique Coco de Mer for the launch party of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent publishers with titles selected for this year's Man Booker longlist, published... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-26 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 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 ]
Waterstones in Bromsgrove is to hold its last day of trading tomorrow (27th July) before the shop... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Association of Authors’ Agents (AAA) has added its voice to complaints about the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Comic book contains material deemed insensitive in light of Colorado shootings'The latest issue of a Batman comic series due to hit stores this week will be postponed in light of the shooting rampage at a Batman movie in Aurora, Colo., DC Entertainment said on Tuesday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Baltimore Sun | 2012-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Century and Arrow has acquired two historical novels by C C Humphreys, both set in London during... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Three books from Fourth Estate have made it onto the Man Booker Prize for Fiction longlist this... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Taylor and Francis’ parent company Informa saw revenue growth in its academic division of 6... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bertrams has appointed an international sales director to support the book wholesaler’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mobile publishing is the disruptive channel du jour, for which many publishers are anxiously seeking a viable strategy. What was a relatively marginal niche for magazines—content feeds on smartphones—became a broad phenomenon with the advent of tablets in 2010. Delivering rich magazine content... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Unit sales of the iPad rose 84% year-on-year in the third quarter ending 30th June 2012, to a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon UK has announced another self-published author has sold well though its retail site,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
The adverse economic environment and consumers who are cutting down on their spending are finally... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Blackwell’s has returned a campus bookshop presence to Queens University Belfast after the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Websites and apps by non-traditional publishers are most useful for travellers, according to an... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Headline has acquired contemporary erotic novel, Because You Are Mine by Beth Kery, and will... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
E-book sales have helped Amazon to gain a 21.1% share of the entertainment market in the UK,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]