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 ]
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 ]
The addition of 41 former Borders stores helped to give Books-A-Million its best holiday season in years for the quarter ended January 28, 2012, but how well that strategy will play out for the full year isn’t yet clear. While fourth quarter sales rose 10.7%, to just under $167 million,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Smith & Son academic booksellers and Oxford University Press each scooped two awards at... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Some people will feel sad about it and nostalgic about it. But we have a better tool now. The Web site is continuously updated, it’s much more expansive and it has multimedia. –Jorge Cauz, the president of Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., which has stopped printing physical books after 244 years,... Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2012-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tom Fletcher and Dougie Poynter from McFly sign a publishing deal to produce two children's picture books. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Century and Arrow have acquired a debut novel set in the antebellum American South, with... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Martina Challis has been appointed the publisher at Weldon Owen, the Bonnier Publishing-owned... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
For city and regional publishers, perhaps more so than their national counterparts, magazine distribution requires an active rather than a passive approach, one that includes constant tending, refinement and, often, innovation. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
E-bookseller Kobo plans to grow device sales in the UK with a strong marketing push towards the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster has acquired the autobiography of pop star Jessie J, with plans to publish... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Rights House and PFD have acquired four crime estates from Chorion in its intellectual... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Professional Publishers Association (PPA) has announced the line-up for Publishing+, its annual conference, taking place on 9 May, which will address the key topics influencing magazine and media publishers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Media Week | 2012-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Quarto has appointed Marcus Leaver, previously president of Sterling Publishing in the US, to the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Libraries, copyright and piracy were officially the big topics of the just-concluded Association... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pan Macmillan has acquired a new "engaging and accessible guide to wine" based on the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
It was probably inevitable, but on Tuesday, it became official: the Encyclopaedia Britannica is finally going out of print. The news was confirmed yesterday by Jorge Cauz, president of Chicago-based Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., who told the New York Times that his company has decided to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Stork Press has acquired the memoir of Polish Nobel Prize-nominated author Tadeusz Rozewicz,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Canongate has acquired a new novel by film-maker and author Ruth Ozeki, completing a six-figure... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
This year’s crop of eight £1 World Book Day titles were once again the bestselling... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]