Faber has appointed Leah Thaxton to the role of children's publisher, moving from her post of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sainsbury's enters the digital books marketplace by buying HMV's stake in Anobii, an online retailer of ebooks, for just £1. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Quercus children's author Kevin Crossley-Holland has taken up the role of president of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Novelist Peter Carey has been appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the Queen... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nearly 60% of families do not own a single baby book until they receive their first packs from... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Waterstones has today (12th June) launched a buy-one-get-one-half-price (BOGOHF) Summer Reading... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
It looks to be a good time for tech investments, with enterprise marketing company Unified receiving $10 million from Conde Nast parent company Advance Publications. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury has launched a new imprint, Rouleur Books, in partnership with specialist cycling... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers are confident that the draft Primary National Curriculum Programmes, released earlier... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
AA Publishing has frozen commissions for new overseas travel guides, and will work with more... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google Inc.'s effort to digitize the world's books inched forward Monday, as the search giant said it had struck deals with French authors and publishers that end six years of litigation and open the way to sell out-of-print French books online. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2012-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sphere has signed two more novels from the author of ebook The Wicked Girls, which was published... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
As the Association of American University Presses prepares to celebrate a milestone 75th birthday at its upcoming annual conference in Chicago, June 18–20, university press leaders are sure to have a long list of birthday wishes. Even the AAUP’s own conference description refuses to soft-pedal... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Japanese online booksellers are planning to circumvent sales tax collection by selling digital... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writers from Sri Lanka and New Zealand have won this year's Commonwealth Writers Awards for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google and French publishers and authors have officially ended six years of legal wrangles with... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lekiosk, a digital magazine newsstand app, has launched in the UK and is offering subscriptions to around 100 titles from publishers including Condé Nast, Immediate Media and Dennis. Continue reading >> [ Source: Media Week | 2012-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google has struck a deal to digitise French books, ending a six-year legal battle. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2012-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The folks at Gannett, the newspaper publisher best known as the people who bring you USA Today, also want to be known for online sports. Here’s another move in that direction: The company’s USA Today Sports Media Group has acquire ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Friends of the Kensal Rise Library has written to All Souls College to ask it to consider... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]