The Huffington Post—and digital media—has won its first Pulitzer Prize. The award went to David Wood, in the category of national reporting, it was announced Monday by Columbia University, which administers the prizes.A longtime print journalist who did stints at Time magazine and the Los... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2012-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barnes & Noble is continuing to meet with international publishers to hammer out agreements... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Digital migration has taken off in the UK and US, but not in other countries to any significant... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The late Manning Marable won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for history, honored for a Malcolm X book. But no Pulitzer Prize was awarded for fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Managing a digital audience is truly a mixed bag: on one hand, it is now possible to understand more about who is consuming what content, where and how-maybe even why; on the other hand, it can be incredibly complicated, despite all the advantages, to do so. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Orion has triumphed in an auction for début thriller The Distance, winning a five-way best... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Unresolved conflicts among publishers, sellers, libraries, and the U.S. Justice Department cloud the future of the publishing industry. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2012-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury has three titles on this year’s Orange Prize shortlist, while novels published... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Vintage Classics has launched a new children’s list featuring such out-of-copyright... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Despite a cheeky promotional claim that profitability is "not something we think about," Punch has a grand vision of becoming a lucrative tablet publishing platform. But first, a quiz: hedge fund or organic farm?David Bennahum is the CEO of Punch, a news and entertainment app that launched last... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2012-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette Livre has sold its ebook distribution platform Numilog to its founder and c.e.o. Denis... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kobo will launch its self-publishing platform this quarter and plans on expanding to “a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
'Fifty Shades of Grey' by E.L. James and sequels are an ebook and paperback phenomenon that is also causing a sales spike in sex shops. How did it all happen?The staff of the Pleasure Chest, a high-end West Hollywood sex shop, were first tipped to the "Fifty Shades of Grey" phenomenon by their... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple responded to DOJ antitrust accusations claiming it simply leveled the playing field against Amazon's virtual monopoly of the ebook industry. I disagree. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
An antitrust suit may provide short-term price reductions on ebooks, but once the competition is flattened, Amazon is likely to resume its monopolistic ways. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2012-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Max Porter, currently manager of the Chelsea branch of Daunt Books, is to join Granta... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Boston Globe film critic Wesley Morris was awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for criticism Monday. Morris, 36, who joined the Globe staff in 2002, won the prize for a range of movie reviews and essays published in 2011. Among the pieces submitted with ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
A journey across the Pacific Crest Trail turns into an exercise of triumph over grief for Cheryl Strayed in her memoir, 'Wild.'Toward the end of Cheryl Strayed's memoir, "Wild," the author, who is in the middle of hiking 1,100 miles alone across the West Coast's formidable Pacific Crest Trail,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
A multi-book deal for celebrity chef Lorraine Pascale, a memoir from “Strictly Come Dancing... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette UK has topped the shortlist league table for the 2012 Bookseller Industry Awards, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]