With Downton Abbey on hiatus, Sadie Jones has your fix: her twisty British country drama The Uninvited Guests, centers on a house called Sterne and the family desperate to hold onto it. Read the first chapter here. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
“We finally dug ourselves out of the recession,” says Toby Cox, owner of the 44-year-old Three Lives & Company, giving voice to a sentiment expressed by a number of New York City booksellers. He ranks 2011 as one of the store’s best since he purchased it 11 years ago. 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 ]
To those of you who will be attending the BEA in June, know that you will be standing on hallowed ground. Not because of the rich mineral content of the soil, or because of the area’s dollar value per square foot. No, you are trodding the path of ghostly royalty for one simple reason: right... 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 ]
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 ]
The Booksellers Association's talks with ebook platform providers have intensified after... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 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 ]
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 ]
Quarto has announced "solid" first quarter results for 2012, with revenue up 4% year on... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Wenguang Huang's memoir about his childhood in Mao's China tells a universal story of the bonds of love – and the pangs of regret – which can shape a family. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
JoJo Moyes’ Me Before You has come top of an online voting poll for the Richard and Judy... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Cosmopolitan for Latinas will arrive on newsstands May 1, Hearst Magazines announced Wednesday, and it promises to show why the publisher has launched another print title at a time when many magazines are struggling to grow. The debut issue of the women's lifestyle spinoff will carry 52 pages of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2012-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Science fiction publisher Tor UK decides to drop anti-piracy restrictions from its electronic books. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2012-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Man Booker-winning Nigerian author Ben Okri has been announced as the new vice-... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Colin Midson, until recently an editor at Simon & Schuster, has launched a book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ebury is relaunching its Black Lace erotica imprint, as E L James' Fifty Shades of Grey... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Profile Books is re-inventing the “choose your own adventure” genre for the digital... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
S J Watson has received his second prize nod in a week, appearing on the shortlists for the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
The publishing industry has a problem. The old guard haven't innovated. And neither their business models nor their products embrace the digital books revolution. Take the ongoing and complicated spat between Apple and the Justice Department over the agency pricing model and alleged collusion... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2012-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]