Barnes & Noble has said it will expand its digital business internationally but will not... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Allen Lane will be publishing another title by Neil MacGregor, author of A History of the World... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Schoolchildren will be encouraged to cash in their World Book Day vouchers by visiting W H Smith... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Orion imprint Indigo has acquired two novels from author Annabel Pitcher, following on from her... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishing house Green World Media Ltd today announces the launch of its first title, Nigerian Watch, a free monthly newspaper aimed at Britain’s substantial Nigerian community. Nigerian Watch will meet the demand for an engaging publicati ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
It's hard not to make a series of reductive comparisons between the Nook Tablet and the Kindle Fire. After all, it's the conflict between Barnes & Noble and Amazon that frames these two 7-inch tablet / e-reader hybrids. This one is $50 more expensive, but is technically more impressive: you... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Sceptre Prize for emerging writers, worth £1,500, has been awarded to Philip Murnin, an... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Discoverability, a new "format war", pricing, the growing importance of the education... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
French publisher eToiles Editions, with an app that "breaks away from the page by page way... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google may have started out as a search engine, but the scope of its services has grown considerably in the 20-plus years since its origin. Of the many products in its grand stable, Google Translate has become a workhorse platform, lending its multi-lingual chops to Chrome, Google +, Android,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
This story first appears on FOLIO: sister site, minonline. Business-to-business media were in the forefront on March 16 as American Business Media presented its 58th annual Jesse H. Neal Awards at a New York luncheon. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Some of Britain's best-loved comic books characters are to grace a new set of stamps to be issued by Royal Mail. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fewer than one in ten students purchase ebooks, while 88% of undergraduates still use printed... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Press will be publishing a new title by former children's laureate Philip Pullman... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Late New York Times journalist Anthony Shadid writes about insights gained rebuilding the war-ravaged home of his great grandfather in Lebanon in 'House of Stone.'A yearning for home, wherever that may be, is one of many themes that the late New York Times journalist Anthony Shadid so deftly... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The first Watermark bookshop in Europe has opened in the new London King's Cross concourse... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Works is enhancing its retail experience around books, creating genre sections, themed window... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
'Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and the How the World Can Finally Overcome It' describes what spread the pandemic and what could rein it in.Tinderbox Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Controversial political and social issues are examined with an intellectual passion.Thinking the Twentieth Century Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
This is a brilliant collection of writings on politics, social and cultural engagement and literary life.Reading for My Life Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]