'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 ]
The lucrative James Bond novels return to Random House, their original publisher, through a new deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Picador has acquired a memoir by US blogger Jenny Lawson, known as "The Bloggess", with... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hutchinson has acquired a debut novel by British screenwriter and creative writing lecturer Jenny... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
South Korean novelist Kyung-sook Shin has won the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize, becoming the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The iPad has not really taken off as a platform for ebooks yet. Thus far the screen resolution has been high, but still no match for the various e-ink screens available on dedicated ereaders. All this could well change with the release of the new iPad, tomorrow, thanks to its high-resolution... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster has acquired two novels by broadcaster and Richard & Judy Book Club... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers need to emerge from the shadow of Nielsen BookScan and use their own judgement while... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kerri Sharp, senior commissioning editor non-fiction at Simon & Schuster, has acquired a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Steve Jobs left behind a legal mess for Apple chief executive Tim Cook. Decisions the former CEO made when brokering ebook distribution deals haunt Apple, as a civil price-fixing case moves forward and the specter of a federal antitrust investigation approaches. Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
An e-rights agreement between French publishers and authors has finally been hammered out, a year... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
As we saw the iPhone 4's release, a massive bump in screen resolution means that plenty of apps need to be updated to fully take advantage of all those extra pixels, and today has seen a few big name ones get optimized for the new iPad's Retina display. The biggest of those is Amazon's Kindle... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Twenty years after it was founded by former Pantheon publisher Andre Schiffrin as a nonprofit publisher with a mission statement to publish “in the public interest,” the New Press is on something of a roll. The house has a new bestseller—Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow—spacious offices in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
To walk into the 5,000-square-foot book room of the Stephen Young showroom in Los Angeles’s Gift Mart is to feel the atmosphere of an old-fashioned library decorated with vintage globes and bird cages, where tables and chairs are arranged to give browsers a chance to sit and relax while deciding... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ian Fleming's James Bond back catalogue is getting a relaunch after his estate signs a new book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Library campaigners and Unison have called for Ed Vaizey to step down from his position as... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins has signed a three-book crime thriller series written by debut author and former... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Raffaele Sollecito, the Italian student who was dating Ms. Knox when they were both charged with murder in 2007, will write his own memoir, for an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2012-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Collins has acquired a tie-in to the upcoming BBC Radio 4 flagship series “The New... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
After a week of media speculation that independent Canadian bookseller Nicholas Hoare would be... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]