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 invests $300m in Barnes and Noble's digital business, providing a boost to the Nook ebook reader. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
Barbara Kellerman, an academic leadership all-star, argues in her latest book that her own industry — the one that tries to teach leadership — is pointless in an era in which power has shifted from leaders to followers.To anyone who does not make a living peddling leadership courses, it might... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Steve Kloves, the screenwriter who brought all seven Harry Potter books to the big screen, is in talks to direct a live action remake of The Jungle Book. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Digital Rights Management software was originally meant to restrict pirating of ebooks, but many complain because of the restrictions it places on users. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
LONDON (Dow Jones)--Pearson PLC (PSON.LN), the publisher of the Financial Times newspaper and Penguin books, Friday produced a healthy rise in first-quarter revenue, but warned profit will be down in the first half of 2012 due to seasonal effects an ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
William Heinemann has acquired an anthology of 21 stories originally published in literary... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Booksellers Association's talks with ebook platform providers have intensified after... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Emily Smith, executive director of Lookout Books, has been in and out of the office more in the past few months than she has been in years, thanks to the success of her imprint’s very first release, a collection of new and previously published work from a 75-year-old master of the short story,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon.com has announced a 19% hike in worldwide media sales, which include books, DVDs... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
A rare week gives us three celeb memoirs by boldface names: Sissy Spacek, Gregg Allman, and Dan Rather are telling all. Turns out, fame is great and all, but what stars really want is a book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers are moving quickly to capitalise on the spectacular success of Century’s erotic... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Archie Comics Publications, the home of the iconic American red-headed teenager and his Riverdale High School buddies, is reshaping its longstanding brand and revitalizing its publishing program. Based in Mamaroneck, N.Y., the 70-year-old company has long been a small but successful publisher of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Weidenfeld & Nicolson has acquired one of the hotly-tipped books of London Book Fair, Golden... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Authors have called for the Carnegie Medal to offer two separate awards. The medal, which is... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
J K Rowling's The Casual Vacancy is to be published in Germany by Carlsen and Ullstein,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]