Bloomsbury's global ebook sales were up 70% year on year between 1st March and 31st May 2012... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 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 ]
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 sale to Buzzmedia, a portfolio of music and celebrity Web sites, calls into question Spin's future as a print publication. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2012-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
June saw UK retail sales rising 1.4% year-on-year on a like-for-like basis, with sales up 3.5% on... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The publishers of The Anniston Star on Monday announced a series of changes to cut expenses while concentrating on digital growth, including the discontinuation of the Monday print edition of The Star and the Friday Escapes section. The changes com ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bertrams like-for-like revenue has risen 4.3% in the last three quarters as its total sales... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers Association c.e.o. Richard Mollet has been elected as chairman of the Alliance Against... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Eason is to launch its e-reader later this year, the Irish bookseller has revealed, as it... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fifty Shades of Grey has surpassed Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Indie publisher Duckworth has teamed up with the Read Russia project to create a 125-volume... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new app discovery campaign has been launched for Kobo by mobile marketing agency Yodelmobile.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Atlantic has returned to Reddit. A month after the social news site kicked out the news magazine and dozens of other sites —including Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and Discovery News—for spam, Reddit has welcomed many back into th ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Booksellers, get out your handcuffs: Roughly one in five physical books sold in the U.S. over most of the spring were the ¿Fifty Shades¿ sex trilogy. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author G.P. Taylor says 'children's literature has gone too far' and advocates a ratings system like that for movies or video games. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Banks have been blamed for failing to support small businesses, with four more indie booksellers... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Despite a troubled print advertising market, publishers still believe in the power of glossy paper and ink: They launched 114 magazines in the first half of 2012. That puts the year roughly on par with 2011, when 111 new titles appeared during the same period, according to online database... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2012-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Germany’s Catholic Church has taken Weltbild—one of the largest publishing groups and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sales of the Fifty Shades trilogy have passed 19m in the US since publication in March. ... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Directors of learned societies say clarity over the timing of transition to open access... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]