Buoyed by a strong finish to 2011, indie booksellers celebrated their independence at this year’s seventh annual American Booksellers Association Winter Institute held at the Astor Crowne Plaza in New Orleans, January 18–20. Some who recently opened second stores, like Peter Makin at Brilliant... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Users of the Bloomberg Terminal are among the richest demographic in the world, and advertisers will soon be able to reach them via a new luxury lifestyle magazine. The first issue of Bloomberg Pursuits launches next month and will reach most of the ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Infinitas Learning, the UK subsidiary of academic publisher Nelson Thornes, has acquired academic... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Serpent's Tail has acquired a debut novel it is billing as a "cross between Fingersmith... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
For a company which business depends on collecting data, Google sure was slow tabulating its report on smartphone usage. The study is available today, but the data is already outdated given strong holiday ebook reader and tablet sales and global impact of 37 million iPhones sold during fourth... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Matteo Berlucchi, chief executive of the social e-retailer Anobii, has urged publishers to drop... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former Borders c.e.o David Roche has been named as the new non-executive chairman of the London... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Keeping pace with the dramatic changes on the smartphone and tablet front is no small feat for any publisher, but doing so presents a particular challenge for smaller companies without a safety net of funds for experimentation with platforms that are at once in their infancy and yet increasingly... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bob McDevitt, previously publisher of Hachette Scotland, has joined leading Scottish literary... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Theo Walcott, Owen Hargreaves and Joey Barton are among the football stars helping to promote... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
W H Smith says it increased its market share over the Christmas period, with retail analysts... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Blackwell has won a £2.5m tender from the Ministry of Defence to supply books to 19... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Transworld has confirmed the publication date of Joanne Harris' next novel, to be called... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Constable & Robinson, the original publisher of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, is set to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mediaspectrum, a “cloud computing platform,” has released a 2.0 version of its Adrenalin tool, which allows publishers to create customized apps, integrated with advertising and subscription systems. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Octopus has appointed Richard Milbank, previously non-fiction publishing director at Atlantic... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pan Macmillan has acquired two psychological thrillers by Hilary Bonner, with the author... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon.com has struck a print licensing agreement with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, which will... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Orion is to publish a new novel by George Pelecanos, a writer on TV show "The Wire", as... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers need to look to how self-published authors price their ebooks, improve the quality of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]