Authors Ross Raisin, Michele Roberts and Anjali Joseph will take their place alongside BBC London... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hesperus Press has acquired UK and Ireland rights in a Swedish debut, The Hundred-Year-Old Man... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The author's short stories paint vivid pictures of growing up Filipino American.In a smoke-stained San Francisco hotel room, Felix Starro is making fake blood. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
In September, British newspaper The Guardian was one of the first publishers to build an app designed specifically for its content to be consumed (and shared) within Facebook. The upside: The prospect of added visibility to 850 million users. The dow ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Headline has won out in a seven-way auction for a US début novel reportedly sold for more... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Viking has acquired a new biography of Jane Eyre author, Charlotte Bronte, to be published in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
As much as a quarter of fiction ebooks sold in the UK could be from self-published writers, as... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
In early summer 2011, Nature Publishing Group's Educational branch debuted its "born digital" textbook Principles of Biology, which would cost the student only $49 and contribute to the movement to democratize higher education with technology. Nature's approach was so different that it basically... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Disney Book Group, Hyperion Books, and Marvel have signed a preliminary agreement to move to the Hachette Book Group for book distribution services. Disney Book Group and Hyperion Books will move their distribution to Hachette, while Marvel will expand its existing relationship with Hachette,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookstore sales fell 0.8% in 2011, the slowest rate of decline since bookstore sales peaked at $17.18 billion in 2007, according to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Since 2007, bookstore sales declined a total of 9.6%. The modest drop in 2011 comes with one big caveat—December... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Since ebooks first became a meaningful part of a publisher’s business in 2009, results at Simon & Schuster have followed a familiar pattern—a decline in revenue but an increase in earnings. Between 2009 and 2011, total sales at S&S dipped 0.7%, but adjusted operating income has jumped... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bonnier’s Swedish arm R&D has released an interactive app for the iPad of AC Milan... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Whatever else can be said about Tools of Change, O’Reilly Media’s traveling road show on publishing and technological change, it seems to come along just when a concentrated dose of discussion—or perhaps muted confrontation—is needed. Over the course of the three-day conference in New York City,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the past few years everything about the book business has changed, and with it the role of the rep, or district manager, as many are now known. In part that’s a reflection of how ordering has changed, especially with the increasing adoption of Edelweiss, the interactive publishers’ catalogue... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin’s decision last week to sever its connection with OverDrive and halt ebook lending... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The circulations of IPC's Soaplife and Hearst Magazines' Inside Soap have fallen significantly year on year, although the majority of TV titles avoided large declines, according to the July to December 2011 magazine ABC figures. Continue reading >> [ Source: Media Week | 2012-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hearst owned Spanish-language weekly La Voz is going to increase its circulation from 100,000 to 150,000 in the second half of 2012. La Voz is published by The Houston Chronicle “in the first quarter we are launching Phase 1 which is a re-a ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The second half of 2011 continued to be a challenging time for magazine publishers, with only four of the top 20 consumer titles achieving lifts in print circulations. Continue reading >> [ Source: Media Week | 2012-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Students are split on the necessity of physical textbooks in a digital world, but a majority of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Rapper Dizzee Rascal has said his memoirs are "on hold at the moment", having... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]