Retailers say the summer’s mixed weather is giving book sales a lift, with Nielsen BookScan... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Smaller academic presses said the digital transition was a “huge” issue for their... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Little, Brown c.e.o. Ursula McKenzie was among those speaking out against low-priced ebooks at... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Department of Justice has rejected objections raised by the public—including bookseller... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House has announced plans for the creation of a digital one-stop shop to aid the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
In light of recent scandals, it's hard not to see this as a bit of image rehabilitation, but we'll do our best to take it at face value. News Corp is bringing its 18-month-old educational division to the fore by rebranding it Amplify and teaming up with AT&T to put tablets in the hands of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomberg LP is jumping into an area dominated by established media players again—this time with a daily magazine it will produce for the Republican and Democratic conventions. The daily, called Bloomberg Insider, will run 32 pages per ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Headline has acquired a new humour title, Texts from Dog, billed as "the first ever Tumblr... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
The parent company of Penguin Books, Pearson, has bought one of the biggest self-publishing companies, Author Solutions Inc (ASI). Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Launched at the end of 2011, the ebook program of the Library of America has released eight titles so far with plans to publish about two ebooks a month for the next year. LOA publisher Max Rudin explained that the nonprofit charged with producing high-quality, beautifully designed editions of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
A prominent Senate Democrat sided with Apple this week, and called on the Justice Department to drop its ebook lawsuit against the Cupertino, Calif. company. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) wrote in an opinion piece that appeared in the Wednesday edition of the Wall Street Journal that a victory... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
YA author Will Hill will finish publishing his Department 19 series with HarperCollins after the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Authors and their representatives have warned that books are being devalued to the point of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Waitrose is now an "increasing force in fiction‚" having extended its book range... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Total book sales fell 2.5% in 2011, to $27.2 billion, according to the latest figures released by BookStats. Revenue was down in three of the four major segments measured by BookStats—k–12, higher education, and professional/scholarly—and up slightly in trade. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fiscal 2012 was a good year made great by The Hunger Games,” Scholastic chairman Dick Robinson told analysts in a conference call last Thursday to discuss results in the year ended May 31, in which sales rose 14%, to $2.15 billion, and net income jumped from $39.4 million to $102.4 million. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Every summer, everyone and their uncle wants to tell you what to read at the beach. So as the summer hits mid-stride, at Jacket Copy, we've got another idea: the anti-beach reading list. Every summer, everyone and their uncle wants to tell you what to read at the beach. If they all had their... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
When Erin Morgenstern’s first novel, The Night Circus, debuted last September, PW predicted in a starred review that this magical tale was destined for bestsellerdom. The hardcover went on to sell 167,000 copies through the outlets tracked by Nielsen BookScan, and the paperback, which was... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nominations for books to be given out for free at next year's World Book Night will begin on... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sphere is setting up an online hub for crime, thriller and mystery ebooks, commissioning new... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]