Sales of ebooks doubled in 2011. But books are still an analog business, by a wide margin. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2012-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
QuadrantOne, an online ad platform created by a consortium of newspaper publishers, including Gannett, Hearst, the New York Times Co. and Tribune, is introducing three new ad management tools intended to improve targeting and measurement of online ad ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Society of Authors has joined ranks with the shadow culture minister Dan Jarvis in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Waterstones divisional manager for the East region, Ian Matthews, has left with “immediate... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Headline Publishing Group has appointed Simon Thorogood to the role of non-fiction publisher,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Picador has acquired two books from film and cultural critic, Mark Kermode, with the author... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Aspiring authors are being given the chance to pitch their novels to a panel of agents at a new... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins has secured a new contract with bestselling author Stuart MacBride. Sarah Hodgson... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The value of Lonely Planet has been estimated at £50m less than the sum paid by the BBC... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Donald Sobol, author of the beloved children's book series "Encyclopedia Brown," died Wednesday in Miami. He was 87. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
We'd say it's about time. Although it's almost two years late to the party, Barnes & Noble is responding to Amazon's Kindle for the Web with Nook for Web. Much like its counterpart across the virtual aisle, the Nook web edition lets readers browse free samples and whole books entirely from a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
An anonymous behind-the-scenes look at modern policing is the latest title to be snapped up by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster’s commissioning editor for sport, Rhea Halford, has left the company... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The foundation behind a proposed museum honoring American authors has published a plan for the building. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sales of E L James's Fifty Shades novels have fallen for the first time in two months, but... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Oxford professor of poetry Geoffrey Hill has been shortlisted for the £10,000 Forward... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barnes & Noble catches up to Amazon and Google with a Web-based ebook service. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2012-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Professor Damian Walford Davies has been appointed chair of Literature Wales, following the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury has appointed Derek Stordahl to the newly created role of head of sales, Americas.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Neil Gaiman will write five children's books for HarperCollins, including a sequel to his 2009 children's book 'Odd and the Frost Giants.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]