TV shows and Hollywood blockbusters aren't America's only cultural exports. The book industry is also expanding overseas, according to a report released Friday by the Association of American Publishers that looks at book exports for the first time. Exports by U.S. publishers, which are dominated... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2012-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
At the new Pop-Hop Books & Print in Highland Park, a pair of print aficionados believes that others, like themselves, cling to the page in the age of ebooks.Like a bad love affair, they kept it a secret from their families as long as they could. Because in 2012, who can admit the thing they... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Collins & Brown has acquired a series of titles in a partnership with craft magazine Mollie... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Cambridge University Press has condemned last week's judgment in the copyright violation case... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent Marion Boyars is to make a return to frontlist publishing, two years after ceasing... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ian Rankin, Robert Harris and Val McDermid are on the longlist for this year's Theakstons Old... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Chatto & Windus has won a six-figure auction for a debut novel said to have a "purist... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Since Farrar, Straus and Giroux and Scientific American, both Macmillan brands, announced in fall 2010 that they were joining forces, Amanda Moon, senior editor of what is being called the Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux imprint, and Scientific American editor-in-chief Mariette... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
I didn’t expect to quit paper so easily. Sure, I love technology, but I also love reading, and I’ve always found paper to be the most pleasurable delivery system for the written word. I stopped subscribing to a daily print newspaper around five years ago, but that was mostly because of price,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2012-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Leading biographer Michael Holroyd has accused the Department for Culture, Media & Sport of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The economy may be rousing from its slumber, but it’s not yet fully awake. Job numbers are improving slowly: the U.S. Department of Labor reported that an anemic 115,000 nonfarm payroll jobs were added in April 2012. Unemployment hovers stubbornly around 8%, refusing to budge much. Logic would... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
With Visit Sunny Chernobyl, journalist-filmmaker Andrew Blackwell tours the most polluted spots on earth -- and makes a pretty good case that you should, too. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Booksellers must address their "toxic" real estate and band together to compete in an... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ebury deputy publisher Andrew Goodfellow has acquired six new books "by" meerkat... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
DALLAS, TX, May 18, 2012 – AIM Media Texas, LLC (“AIM” or the “Company”) announced today that it has reached agreement to acquire the Texas print and online newspaper publishing assets from Freedom Co ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Despite a bill partially designed to stop this effort, the United States Post Service will move forward with its 9-month modified consolidation plan. The first step will consolidate 48 locations this summer, with larger-scale consolidation to follow at the start of 2013. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Plain, ordinary text files aren’t normally the most interesting ways to convey information, but if you’d like to change that then Toolwiz FlipBook may be able to help. Just point the program at a particular TXT file, and in a click it’ll be converted into an executable file. And launching this... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Despite the odds—the growth of ebooks, rising rent, and online discounting—bookstores continue to open and succeed. Speaking at the American Booksellers Association Forum in Medford, Mass., last month, ABA CEO Oren Teicher affirmed that membership in the organization has “stabilized,” and the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster becomes the latest publisher to settle an antitrust claim by a team of states, while Macmillan, Penguin, and Apple fight on. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
A “high-profile defeat” for publishers is how Brandon Butler, director of public policy initiatives at the Association of Research Libraries, described the May 11 verdict in Cambridge University Press et. al. v. Mark Becker et. al., a closely watched copyright case involving the use of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]