Canongate is stepping into the kitchen for the first time, publishing its first cookery titles... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
E-book price fixing will cost consumers more than US$200 million this year, and U.S. antitrust authorities should take action against Apple and a group of... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hot pre-Fair debut The Palace of Curiosities by poet and performance artist Rosie Garland has... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
This year's volunteer givers for World Book Night (23rd April) are being encouraged... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barnes & Noble is strengthening its relations with UK publishers and app developers in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Yahoo files papers outlining ways of scattering adverts through digital books based on what is being read. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2012-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
With Conde Nast, Hearst and Meredith launching their own digital newsstand in the form of Next Issue Media, it’s clear that magazine publishers are counting on tablets for future growth. Forecasts predicting rapid tablet adoption abound. e ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have a new project up their sleeves under their parent company, AVOS. Within the last 24 hours, the duo launched a landing page for their latest project, Zeen. AVOS is responsible for acquiring Delicious ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The author's exuberant use of words in private is as vivid as in public.The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The author goes from one extreme to another in this wonderfully absurdist short-story collection.Suddenly, a Knock On the Door Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
An online community for young writers, Figment aims to let users steer the conversations while connecting them to the larger world of literature.NEW YORK — It started with a story for a magazine. In 2008, during a trip to Japan, New Yorker staff writer Dana Goodyear decided to write about... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
An interracial couple navigates modern life in South African in 'No Time Like the Present,' by Nadine Gordimer.No Time Like the Present Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The necessity of self-improvement and social betterment is thoughtfully explored in Sam Harris' and Alain de Botton's books.Free Will Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google will end its Google eBooks reseller program which allowed independent bookstores to sell ebooks through Google's platform. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The major trade publishers do not appear in imminent danger of fading away. With Random House’s release of 2011 financial results late last month, the four large trade houses that report results all posted operating margins that topped 10%. Although the four companies—Lagardère Publishing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishing companies typically incorporate publishing and marketing departments into their business models. February Partners, however, is doing things a little differently: the Manhattan boutique book publicity and marketing firm founded in the fall of 2010 by two industry veterans has just... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google said the program, which allowed independent bookstores to sell ebooks through their Web sites, was not a success. Bookstores said it was a valuable platform that allowed them to give customers something they wanted. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2012-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
As digital book sales continue to gain traction, the comparison between bookstores and record stores has gotten closer. Coupled with the comparisons comes an implicit warning that bookstores could share the fate of Tower, Virgin, and HMV—record stores that are all gone. While the number of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Are you ready for a bombshell? Turns out people who read ebooks read more books than those don't. That tidbit comes from the number crunchers at Pew. According to a new report titled "The Rise of E-Reading," the ebook readers read an average of 24 books in the past year, versus the 15 books read... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The nation's independent bookstores got another bit of bad news Thursday: Google Inc.is closing the books on them. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]