Rowan Pelling, former editor of Erotic Review and Telegraph Review, and Tom Tivnan, features editor for The Bookseller, discuss the rise in popularity of ebooks particularly in genres such as erotica. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica will cease publishing its flagship encyclopedia and concentrate on its digital offerings. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins has launched an ebook imprint, called Mischief, which will focus on erotica and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Audible.com has persuaded stars such as Dustin Hoffman, Kate Winslet and Samuel L. Jackson to lend their voices to classic novels for the popular media format.When it came to reading a book out loud, Dustin Hoffman was a bit rusty. The last time he had done something similar was in New York City... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
One way to deal with change is to get comfortable with the uncomfortable. Laura Hollingsworth knows. As president and publisher of the Des Moines Register and a group president for Gannett Co. Inc.'s U.S. Community Publishing Division, Hollingsw ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Justin Moodie is leaving DK to start up his own digital consultancy, moving from his role as... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
United Agents has promoted four of its younger staff members, with three stepping up into... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
EU regulators have hinted that they are open to a deal with European publishers over the agency... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Shadow culture minister MP Dan Jarvis has warned Ed Vaizey risks becoming the “Dr Beeching... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Century and Arrow have acquired bestselling romance trilogy Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sceptre has acquired a "compendium of typos" described as "the perfect word-lovers... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Library campaigners have welcomed MP Ed Vaizey’s offer to speak with the Chartered... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Authors Guild President Scott Turow charges in an open letter about ebook pricing: “Our government may be on the verge of killing real competition in order to save the appearance of competition.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
DJ and ex-Catatonia frontwoman Cerys Matthews is to join the judging panel of the 2012 University... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Espresso Book Machine means that booksellers can publish and sell an enormous number of titles. But can they make the finances work? Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2012-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Waterstones is to move its head office to its flagship store in Piccadilly to be closer to its... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Quercus Books imprint MacLehose Press has acquired two new titles by Australasian authors C K... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]