Close to 100 Greenwich library workers are on strike over plans to privatise the borough's... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Regional publisher Trinity Mirror has been carrying out an overhaul of its network of newspaper websites designed to give them a ‘cleaner’ look. Digital publishing director David Higgerson has overseen the changes which have now b ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Corsair publisher James Gurbutt and editor Sarah Castleton are launching a "bijou imprint... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Two titles from Random House Children's Publishing imprint Bodley Head have made the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
The software company announced it will invest $300 million in the bookseller's ebook and college bookstore ventures Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Alexander Mamut, the Blackwell and Pearson families, and Jamie and Jools Oliver are among the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barnes & Noble Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are teaming up to create a new Barnes & Noble subsidiary that will house the digital and college businesses of the bookseller and include a Nook application for Windows 8.The companies said Monday that they are exploring separating those businesses... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Data gathered by Nielsen BookScan for The Daily Beast show many of the same titles are popular in American cities – but exceptions include 'Heaven Is For Real' and 'The Great Gatsby.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Microsoft has invested $300m in Barnes and Noble, forming “a new subsidiary” of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Groundbreaking Harvard sociobiologist E.O. Wilson has authored more than two dozen books, including Sociobiology (1975), Consilience (1998), the Pulitzer Prize-winners On Human Nature (1978) and The Ants (1990), and the novel Anthill (2010). His latest book is The Social Conquest of Earth (W. W.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp will invest $300 million in Barnes & Noble Inc's Nook e-reader, gaining a foothold in the fast-growing ebooks market as the bookseller gets more firepower to compete against Amazon.com's Kindle and Apple Inc's iPad. Continue reading >> [ Source: Baltimore Sun | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers Association chief executive Richard Mollet has welcomed a block on file-sharing site... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Science fiction publisher Tor UK has announced it will stop using the technology that restricts copying from all of its ebooks, in a possible precedent for the industry. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Coming up first: A Metro-style Nook e-reader app for Windows 8 that will be available to U.S. and international users. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ben Hur and Casablanca are among the film scripts to be released as ebooks for the first time by Warner Bros. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
In 'My Life as a Sportswriter,' the Sports Illustrated writer reminisces on his time chronicling the offbeat and the mainstream in sports.A bio on NPR's website of its commentator Frank Deford notes that the magazine GQ christened him, quite simply, "the world's greatest sportswriter." (Is he?)... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Microsoft and Barnes & Noble are announcing a new partnership to develop and sell educational ebooks on the Nook e-reader. Microsoft is investing $300 million in the subsidiary, while B&N will own the remaining 82 percent of it. (The new operation is being provisionally called "Newco,"... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Microsoft seems to have found an open window back into the ebook business, closing the door on an ongoing patent dispute with its new partner. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
The US print market has plunged 16% year on year in the first quarter of 2012, despite a record-... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Byliner.com, a digital publishing company, withdrew the ebook “After Friday Night Lights” by Buzz Bissinger from Amazon because of a pricing dispute involving a promotional giveaway. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]