The Justice Department has told Apple and five major publishers that it's planning to sue them for fixing ebook prices. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins imprint Avon has acquired a memoir by saga author Pamela Weaver about her... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Almost two-thirds of industry leaders from the publishing industry foresee that newspapers and other print publishers will end up as digital-only enterprises by 2020, according to a survey conducted by MPP Global Solutions. Conducted during two web ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tensions between academic booksellers and publishers are likely to heighten following the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Transworld has acquired the first official book by UK boy band McFly, who formed in 2004... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Constable & Robinson won a hat-trick of awards at the Independent Publishers Guild... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hamish Hamilton has acquired a novel by French author Eric Reinhardt about a doomed... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The newest owner of The New Republic magazine is Chris Hughes, a new media guru who co-founded Facebook and helped to run the online organizing machine for Barack Obama's presidential campaign. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2012-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Eugenie Furniss, one of the UK’s most high-profile literary agents, is leaving William... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House Group imprints Century and Arrow have signed a four-book deal with Rona-winning... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Justice Department is warning Apple and its publisher partners they may have to answer for their pricing model. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury has acquired a non-fiction title about Princess Sophia Duleep Singh, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
It was a big evening for independent publishers at the National Book Critics Circle Awards this year. Copper Canyon Press, Graywolf Press, and Lookout Books scored wins in poetry, criticism, and fiction, respectively. Edith Pearlman, whose story collection Binocular Vision took home the fiction... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
It’s not just trade bookstores that are feeling the pinch from online retailers and other discounters. At the National Association of College Stores’ Campus Market Expo held earlier this month at the Salt Lake Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, NACS’s OnCampus Research division... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The under-the-radar author won for her collection "Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories."Reporting from New York -- The National Book Critics Circle gave its 2011 fiction prize to Edith Pearlman, an under-the-radar writer of short stories, at its annual awards ceremony Thursday evening at... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The book trade is seeing increased activity from overseas publishers ahead of the London Book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
When Noel Young launched Santa Barbara–based Capra Press in 1969 and began to publish a literary who’s who of writers that included Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller, Raymond Carver, Lawrence Durrell, and Ursula K. Le Guin it was a vibrant time for independent bookstores and small presses, the beginning... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
After lengthy beta testing, the Harry Potter website Pottermore will be open to the public starting in early April. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Salon du Livre in Paris will open for four days on 16th March with a notable new addition... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Irish author Patricia Scanlan has left Transworld for Simon & Schuster. The novelist, who... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]