Online retailer Fishpond.co.uk is looking to build relationships with publishers large and small... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Pottermore ebook store sold £3m-worth of Harry Potter ebooks in its first month, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
For Harvey Pekar's Cleveland, Top Shelf and Zip Comics recruited artist Joseph Remnant, whose work recalls longtime Pekar collaborator R. Crumb, but with a lighter touch and a charm all its own. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google Inc. urged a judge Thursday to toss The Authors Guild and an organization representing photographers out of 6-year-old litigation over the future of the world's largest digital library, a move that would force authors and photographers to individually fight the online search-engine... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2012-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Soho Press, an independent publisher with a full-time staff of nine, is made up of a band of fiercely loyal book lovers. The press was taken over by publisher Bronwen Hruska in 2010.Juliet Grames, Soho’s senior editor, said, about working with her: “For our first 25 years we were a quality... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury has bought world English rights in the first three books in a seven-book fantasy... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishing entrepreneur Frances Pinter is planning a 2013 pilot for the project she bills as a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The general secretary of the Society of Authors has called for a one-on-one meeting with culture... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Leaders from the world of magazine publishing are set to tackle the industry's multiplatform future on Wednesday (9 May) at Publishing+, the PPA's conference at the Hilton Metropole. Continue reading >> [ Source: Media Week | 2012-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Canongate has acquired the first adult novel written by Patrick Ness since 2003, with editorial... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette Livre has today (4th May) reduced the retail prices of ebooks to the level of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the May issue of the Slate Book Review, Meghan O’Rourke writes about Are You My Mother?, cartoonist Alison Bechdel’s therapy-fueled exploration of her relationship with her mom. Writes O’Rourke: Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2012-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
A campaign for The Power of Three by H L Dennis, the first book in the Secret Breakers series... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Raintree has acquired the first titles for its fledgling fiction list, Curious Fox, from Fiction... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Reading Agency and the Publishers Association have launched a digital skills sharing... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Digital revenues for Simon & Schuster US climbed 64% in the first quarter of the year, while... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
With the race on for expanding magazine brands onto a variety of platforms, particularly the kind that don’t involve paper, printers are finding new ways to serve clients and draw in new revenue. Some of these tactics include launching multiplatform services, in addition to combining digital and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Duncan Baird Publishers is to remove digital rights management (DRM) from its future and backlist... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) has teamed up with Barnes & Noble’s Nook to deliver e-... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Surrey County Council's decision to remove paid staff from 10 of its libraries has been... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]