Vintage Classics is working in association with the Victoria & Albert Museum to re-issue... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
As the internet pats itself on the back for protesting SOPA and changing the minds of a handful of U.S. Senators, file-sharing site Megaupload has been brought down in one of the largest copyright infringement cases of all time. Seven individuals and two international corporations have been... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sources from Amazon's supply chain in the Far East indicated to DigiTimes that Kindle Fire orders with original device manufacturers are expected to be just 3 million units this quarter. That's half the 6 million units Amazon reportedly shipp ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
In a b-to-b twist on the e-commerce craze, Penton launched an online auction site that can scale across all the verticals the company targets. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Today, Mark S. Luckie — the founder of 10,000 Words, and now full-time social media guy at WaPo – invited readers to subscribe to its staff on Facebook. He wrote: Looking to connect with Washington Post reporters and writers on F ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple today announced iBooks Author and iBooks 2, free applications that let educational publishers and teachers create and market K-12 textbooks and course... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
The starting gun has been fired in the race to find Britain's best publishers, retailers... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
In business for a total of 122 years, four well-known African-American–owned bookstores—Eso Won (22 years); Hue-Man (10 years); Marcus Book Stores (52 years); and the Shrine of the Black Madonna Cultural Center & Bookstore (37 years)—are no strangers to economic ups and downs. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins has acquired two more novels from television presenter Fern Britton, with... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
The migration of print sales to digital has been most keenly felt by Britain's biggest... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Women's fiction writer Jenny Colgan has joined the likes of sci-fi author Michael Moorcook,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hodder & Stoughton has acquired a new cookery book from celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay with the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
For an indie publisher to launch its first line with a $300 art book takes guts and vision, but that’s what Ammo Books’ founders Paul Norton and Steve Crist did in 2006 when they published 3,000 copies of Gonzo by Hunter S. Thompson and sold out in less than a year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hutchinson has bought Lamb by Bonnie Nazdam, a début novel which won the 2011 Flaherty-... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
A group of children's authors has formed a collective called Electrik Inc to publish their... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
vjoon®, a leading provider of cross-media publishing platforms and a global Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (DPS) reseller, announces that vjoon customers such as Condé Nast, National Geographic, Reader’s Digest, Red Bull, ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber has acquired a third novel from Apples author Richard Milward. Publishing director Lee... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple has announced a new multimedia app called iBooks Author, allowing writers to create their... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jon Appleton has been appointed to the newly-created post of editorial director for fiction at... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Latest odds from William Hill make poet and debut biographer Matthew Hollis odds-on favourite to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]