Waterstones' m.d. James Daunt has told independent publishers that the “promised land... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The parties in Germany's ruling coalition have proposed a new protective copyright law for news publishers to ensure they are compensated by "commercial traders" that use pieces of their copyrighted content online, according to an automat ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scholastic's Storia reading app includes many children's titles previously unavailable in ebook format Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Group Commerce, the year-old start-up that operates "white label" e-commerce services for big media companies, has another notch in its belt. The New York-based company is now powering offers for 29 CBS radio stations, bringing its roster total to 15 clients, including the New York Times and... Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2012-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Some new research sheds light on how social media is currently being used to share news articles from traditional publishers. Newswhip has looked at the number of news stories during January 2012 that received more than 100 mentions on Twitter and Fa ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Google eBooks store has been merged into the company's wider entertainment portal with... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The former owners of Book Club Associates (BCA) have said they would like to see the business... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Seven titles have been shortlisted for the first Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
English PEN is to look for a new director after Jonathan Heawood announced that he will step down... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Little, Brown author Val McDermid has backed the role of publishers, as children's laureate... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fast Company is now available to read on your iPad.Starting with the March 2012 issue, Fast Company is offering a digital version of each month's print issue on the iTunes App Store and Newsstand. This is first and foremost a way to read the complete magazine on your iPad, but it also includes... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2012-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Between Google Books, iBooks, Nook, Kindle, Kobo, Sony... you'd figure the ebook field was crowded enough, right? Well, if you're specifically in the market for children's stories, things might look a little less packed. We guess that's why Scholastic is attempting to enter the fray with Storia,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hearst Magazines UK has appointed News International's Lee Wilkinson to the newly created role of product director for its digital division. Continue reading >> [ Source: Media Week | 2012-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
'Freedom' author Jonathan Franzen, who has previously disparaged Facebook and ebooks, says Twitter 'stands for everything I oppose' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Kindle Single is not a promising name. It sounds like a new kind of prefabricated fire log, or a type of person you might meet on the dating service eHarmony — perhaps a lonely independent bookstore owner put out of business by Amazon.c ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber is to add to its series of Faber Academy creative writing courses with a new online course... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Despite consumer uncertainty in buying online, and publisher uncertainty in partnering with Amazon, ebooks sales are dominating the market. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2012-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent publisher Choc Lit has scored two prizes at the Romantic Novelists’ Association... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
It's a case of having one's cake and eating it, too. Or, in this instance, digitizing the works of others and reselling them online for a 40 percent cut. According to Le Temps, a controversial new law recently passed by the French government will see out-of-print books from the 20th century... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Book sales soared £1.9m week on week last week, with the children's sector benefitting... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]