In December 2010, National Book Network CEO Jed Lyons made the decision to cut back on the number of distribution clients NBN represented while also realigning its sales and marketing teams. The changes led to the departure of some NBN executives including NBN president Rich Freese, who moved to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hearst Magazines UK has appointed David Parker as publisher of Prima, replacing Steven Seaton, who is joining Immediate Media as managing director of its London specialist division. Continue reading >> [ Source: Media Week | 2012-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin drops over-the-air downloads; now only Random House gives libraries unrestricted access to purchase and loan ebooks. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon has made no secret of the fact that a major reason for selling its family of Kindle devices for as low a price as possible is that once consumers have a device they will buy more products from the giant e-tailer. A new study of past month book buyers just completed by the Codex Group... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Future is encouraging media agencies to probe the numbers its magazine publishing rivals are claiming for their tablet editions, as part of an "educational" initiative to grow the tablet advertising market. Continue reading >> [ Source: Media Week | 2012-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The murder of Oakland journalist Chauncey Bailey and a family's violent rise to prominence is given gripping life.On a morning in August 2007, a slender masked man ran up to Chauncey Bailey on an Oakland sidewalk and fired two shotgun blasts at the journalist. The first slug tore through Bailey... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
In a time when digital and print-on-demand technology are streamlining how books are created and delivered, Paravion Press believes there still is a market for well-crafted, hand-made books. “Paravion hopes to keep hold of a patch of turf for the old guard of the printed book—the realm of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hodder & Stoughton has acquired the memoirs of Sam Pivnik, one of the few living British... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The marketing campaign for Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever by Jeff Kinney has won the latest... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Butter, eggs, heavy cream with sherry, and lobster—combined in ramekins and topped with a puff pastry. Like many recipes from Lobster (Storey, May), there is no sparing fat for health concerns. This season’s batch of cookbooks represents an ode to fresh flavor—both traditional and cutting edge. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Works is heralding a revived "commitment to books" after appointing a new c.e.o.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hearst Corporation has upped its equity interest in global credit ratings agency Fitch Group again, adding an additional 10 percent. The transaction, valued at $177 million, brings Heart’s total equity interest to 50 percent. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The more things change, the more they stay the same”—the old saw describes the state of Christian fiction in 2012. Try to spot inspirational fiction trends for spring, and you could get run over by an Amish buggy. But could the bonnet craze be cooling off? As PW looks at the category at the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Crowd-funding, the technical term for fund-raising sites like Kickstarter.com, has been an increasingly popular way for cartoonists to raise money to publish independent comic and graphic novel projects. While Kickstarter has just hit a new high point with the funding of the first $600,000... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Watermark Bookstore has revealed plans to expand in the UK, following the opening of the company... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Crowd-funding, the technical term for fund-raising sites like Kickstarter.com, has been an increasingly popular way for cartoonists to raise money to publish independent comic and graphic novel projects. While Kickstarter has just hit a new high point with the funding of the first $600,000... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster has signed another two as-yet-untitled novels by The Bellwether Revivals... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
After seeing Samsung's spirited swing at Apple users, Amazon's continuing anti-Apple pandering just feels weak. The new ad for the Kindle Fire pits a dorky, single iPad user against a Kindle-reading mom in a bikini—the same ice queen from the 2010 spot, though now she's warmed up a bit and seems... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2012-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin has acquired a title written by solar physicist Doctor Lucie Green, which looks at the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Net-a-Porter Group has hired Tess Macleod Smith as its new group publishing director. Continue reading >> [ Source: Media Week | 2012-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]