A diary that writes on its own pages in one of the Harry Potter books inspires a paper that spells out blood types. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2012-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Orion has acquired a title about growing your own food from garden-designer and television... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ebury Press has acquired a new cookbook from Madhur Jaffrey, with the title also to be featuring... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Microsoft's $300 million investment in Barnes & Noble's Nook e-reader and digital book subsidiary makes perfect sense, according to experts at Wharton and elsewhere. Continue reading >> [ Source: Knowledge@Wharton | 2012-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers are creating exclusive products, including an original essay by Julian Barnes, ... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
James Kellow, currently commercial director of HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand, is to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Rupert Murdoch is "not fit" to have "stewardship of a major international company", while his son James showed "wilful ignorance" over phone hacking, according to a Select Committee report published today. Continue reading >> [ Source: Media Week | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
What connects teenagers and newspapers? For years, that has been quite a difficult question. It is uncommon to find teenagers reading the newspaper, as most would rather read comic books or do another activity. Newspapers, which are considered an ad ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Digital book sales have gone up 54% in the past year to £243m but total book sales have fallen by 2%. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber is releasing a series of six short ebooks, called Faber Forty-Fives, which each draw... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Financial Times is preparing to kill off its iPad and iPhone app for good, signalling its final conversion from executable-app to web-app publishing. The news publisher launched a HTML5 web app and pulled its iOS app off iTunes Store in mid-2011 ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Consumer ebook sales increased by 366% to £92m in 2011, with sales across all digital... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
LS Travel Retail UK & Ireland has opened a new UK shop at London's Cannon Street Station... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
A petition calling on education secretary Michael Gove to prevent severe cutbacks to the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Enthusiast consumer publisher Taunton Press taps Tim Rahr as its new president. Rahr, who has served as executive vice president and chief financial officer with Taunton since 2005, succeeds Sue Roman. These changes are effective immediately. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Microsoft is jumping into the fast-growing ebooks market by investing US$300 million in Barnes & Noble's Nook e-reader and university business, as it looks to unlock Amazon.com and Apple's grip on the exploding tablet computer market. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The shortlist for the £10,000 Caine Prize includes stories by authors from Nigeria, Kenya,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The deal with the maker of the popular Nook ebook reader shows that Microsoft, like Apple, understands that ecosystems are the key to success. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
After announcing plans to possibly spin off its NOOK business in January, Barnes & Noble enters into a partnership with Microsoft. The tech company invested $300 million in the new subsidiary (currently under the working title NewCo), a post-money valuation of $1.7 billion, equating to a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Justice Department's antitrust suit over eBook price fixing has is as deeply befuddling as it is important to the future of publishing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]