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 ]
Hodder & Stoughton has acquired a YA title by bestselling author Jodi Picoult and her teenage... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former director of Interead Phil Wood has been appointed to the new role of Kobo’s country... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The catalogue-based bookselling company Book Club Associates has collapsed following the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Print book sales were down 13% (£15m) to £98m year-on-year in February, according to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
US retailer Barnes & Noble is to sponsor an event for developers in London later this month,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pan Macmillan has acquired the memoirs of Nanny Pat, who stars in ITV1's "The Only Way... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 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 ]
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 ]
Ars Technica has many things, from an audience of nearly 8 million monthly uniques to an affluent, educated readership of engaged hard-core techies. What it hasn’t had—until now—is a dedicated advertising staff. Founded by Ken Fisher in 1998 and bought by Condé Nast for a reported $25 million... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2012-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
OverDrive has acquired Australian ebook company Booki.sh for an undisclosed sum in a move which... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Waterstones has announced former Piccadilly store manager Rik McShane as its new head of books at... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Dark Horse Comics has penciled a contract with Barnes & Noble (it'll be sent off to be inked and colored next week*) to get the former's content onto the latter's Tablet and Color e-readers. Available in the Nook Comic store, you'll be able to pick up a mix of the publisher's licensed titles... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Macmillan Children’s Books has acquired three titles from its Young Sherlock Holmes author... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oddly, Random House deciding to triple the price of its ebooks for libraries is being considered a compromise. While others, like Penguin, are pulling their electronic tomes from the virtual shelves of our lending institutions, Random House is at least willing to still play ball -- even if it's... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Orange and Booker-shortlisted author Emma Donoghue ihas been shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bertrams has announced a shake-up of its executive team following its acquisition of Dawson Books... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the early days of the digital revolution, most independent publishers were moving slower than the larger houses in getting on the ebook bandwagon. That period has clearly passed. With only a couple of exceptions, the publishers that made it onto this year’s edition of PW’s fast-growing small... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
No one is coming back to check a publisher’s Web site,” said Rachel Fershleiser, who works in literary strategic outreach at Tumblr, calling to mind a dull Web site that offers a catalogue and not much else. Incentive to come back, Fershleiser said, is the key to building a presence online,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]