Following preliminary disclosures in early March, German press manufacturer Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) has now published its financial statements for 2011. Notwithstanding the challenges arising from ongoing structural changes in the print media mar ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Anne Tyler's latest novel, 'The Beginner's Goodbye,' is a classic mix of the author's themes, most especially oddball characters and the turbulent nature of families and marriages.When you pick up a novel by Anne Tyler, you can expect certain things. It will be set in Baltimore. It will follow... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury's US subsidiary, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, has completed the purchase of academic... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Red magazine is launching the Red Book Club and doubling the amount of space it dedicates to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers have made a flurry of "major" acquisitions and additions to their schedules... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Quercus has acquired a debut children's novel by Piers Torday, son of Salmon Fishing in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The book market could receive an Olympic boost of around £16m if bookshops decide to take... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
'Twenty-Four Major League Writers on the World's Most Loved (and Hated) Team' makes it personal.A couple of years ago, for Father's Day, my family bought me the interactive video game MLB 2K9 for the Wii. The great thing about the game, and also its enduring frustration, is its verisimilitude —... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
A coming-of-age story by former Angels pitcher Abbott is at its best when describing his influence as a role model off the field.Imperfect Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
In this spooky, atmospheric debut novel, readers enter a sterile, off-kilter world of horror — sort of — that is more David Lynch than Stephen King.Threats Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
These delightful biographies of 294 authors begin with John Bunyan in the 17th century and ends with Rana Dasgupta, born in 1971.My assignment: Read almost 300 literary biographies in more than 800 pages, all of English-language authors, beginning in the 17th century and ending in the present... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Aquafadas, a French digital publishing company, has launched a platform that allows publishers to build multimedia apps for children’s books, comics, magazines, and newspapers. Using Aquafadas’s Ave AppFactory desktop application and Adobe InDesign, publishers can produce apps that offer a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Moving 200,000 books isn’t an easy task, but through the goodwill and team work of several organizations, that’s exactly what happened in an unprecedented donation of James Patterson’s own books to the United States Armed Forces. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Books by Michael Palin, Zadie Smith, Andrew Marr, and Ann Widdecombe have been added to the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
The government has announced it is to accept all the 28 recommendations made in Mary Portas... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
April is the cruelest month, wrote T.S. Eliot, but this year, according to Canadian independent booksellers and the shoppers who love them, March might get the title as a spate of prominent indie closures were announced across the country. Vancouver is losing its remaining four Book Warehouse... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins is to bring out two autumn books from girl band Little Mix, winners of the latest... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google has announced a new way for online news publishers to gate access to their premium content, by requiring would-be readers to fill in a survey first. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Despite the economic gloom, the number of titles produced annually in Russia continues to grow. The country is now #3 in terms of book production (approximately 125,000 new titles per year), after the U.S. and China. It also saw more than 20 million ebook downloads and some one million reading... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Although worldwide sales at Random House fell 4.3% in 2011, the company posted its highest earnings and operating margins in at least five years. EBIT (earnings before interest and taxes) rose 6.9%, to 185 million euros, with an operating margin of 10.6%, a full percentage point higher than... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]