As temperatures soared across the UK, printed book sales slumped to their lowest level in nine... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Terry Pratchett has won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction after being... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster UK has bought its first young adult titles from paranormal romance writer... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Brent Council has faced mounting criticism for its midnight raid to strip Kensal Rise Library of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the digital age, Reddit’s AMA (Ask Me Anything) forum has quickly become a highly sought after destination on press junkets and book tours. The unmoderated, crowdsourced Q&A format has attracted huge names like Louis C.K., Stephen Colbert, Rep. Darrell Issa (R.-Calif.) and even Nobel... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2012-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Guardian is launching an interactive map of the UK and Ireland’s bookshops in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Chicago Tribune is mulling a plan to charge online readers premiums for different kinds of content, a structure similar to the fee it charges for the print literary magazine it introduced this year. The city's largest newspaper is charting ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Book Marketing Society has announced the shortlists for its inaugural Best Marketing Campaign... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon and the Independent Publishers Group in the US have reached a settlement over their ebook... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Delhi-based novelist Rahul Bhattacharya has won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Harvill Secker has acquired a new crime novel by Tim Parks, provisionally titled Painting Death,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
'When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man' is the first novel from Nick Dybek, son Stuart Dybek, and centers on a threat to a fishing community's way of life.The title of Nick Dybek's debut novel, "When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man," hints at transitions to come, and the phrase "was still"... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hearst Magazines UK is selling Coast and transferring its licence to publish Psychologies in the UK to Kelsey Publishing, the Kent-based publisher that acquired several IPC magazines in 2010. Continue reading >> [ Source: Media Week | 2012-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Distributor Georgetown Terminal Warehouses in Ontario begins POD publishing in Canada in a partnership with Illinois-based Publishers' Graphics. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sales and profit at Quercus dropped 22% in 2011 but the company grew sales of its non-Stieg... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury Academic and Oxford University Press have collaborated to enable digital cross-linking... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Waterstones m.d. James Daunt is planning to grow the number of the chain's stores, according... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michael Joseph has acquired a debut novel, On the Island by Tracey Garvis Graves, which was self-... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House Children's Publishers UK and Transworld Publishers have appointed Total Media to handle their online media planning and buying. Continue reading >> [ Source: Media Week | 2012-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Susan Hill, Belinda Bauer and Peter May are among the shortlistees for the Crime Writers... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]