HarperCollins is attempting to help readers live out their Fifty Shades of Grey-inspired... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Picador has won a hotly-contested auction for Burial Rites, a debut novel set in Iceland in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Traditional trade publishers have been testing the digital-first/digital-only publishing waters for more than two years now, and the pace is accelerating. This month alone, Penguin is reviving the Dutton Guilt Edged Mysteries line as a digital only imprint, Kensington has launched eKensington as... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-07-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Electrical retailer Dixons has said that it is waiting on Amazon to confirm the release date in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Award-winning writer Neil Gaiman has signed a new 5-book deal with HarperCollins, it was announced Wednesday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Guardian Books is to publish a title by the newspaper's columnist The Secret Footballer.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Magazine publishing giant Conde Nast shook up its corporate sales staff Wednesday by placing digital advertising boss Josh Stinchcomb over sales for print, digital, mobile, video and marketing services. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Rights in E L James' Fifty Shades trilogy have sold to 41 foreign publishers to date, with... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Alliance of Independent Authors has enlisted the help of agency A M Heath to represent... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers are "missing out" on ebook sales to schools because of the lack of a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Six titles from indie publishers plus three from self-published writers, have been longlisted for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster has snapped up a two-book deal from self-published author Jamie McGuire in a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Waterstones' operations director Steve Clark has left the company with immediate effect. His... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Highly-respected media and entertainment executive William G. Tompkins, Jr. has been named president and chief executive officer of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, a federation of more than 200 Black-owned ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hodder and Stoughton is asking readers to write a companion ebook to its autumn title, Miranda... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The final book in The Hunger Games trilogy is coming to the big-screen in two parts starting in 2014. Lionsgate Films announced today that The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 will be released November 21, 2014, and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 will follow on November 20, 2015. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2012-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Andrew Hodder-Williams has been appointed to the role of publishing director at Lion Hudson.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Transworld has acquired a debut novel which has already sold over 250,000 copies in the US,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
First there was US-based Amazon's Kindle eReader, then Canada-based Kobo turned the eBook race into a two-horse affair with its range of eReaders. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2012-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Nobel Prize-winning author's brother says the effects of dementia mean Márquez may be unable to write. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]