The emergence of author podcasts as a viable and entertaining marketing tool is apparent in the success of three such efforts originating from literary Web sites on the West Coast: Brad Listi’s the Nervous Breakdown, Tom Lutz’s Los Angeles Review of Books, and Tyson Cornell’s company Rare Bird... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Foyles has said that it aims to "keep up the momentum" of business growth in 2012... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
David Nicholls' One Day (Hodder) sold almost twice as many copies as the next bestselling... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House is diversifying into author management with the launch of an international speakers... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Members of six organisations have announced they will gather to lobby parliament on cuts to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sales of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations have rocketed thanks to the BBC's lavish... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
A series of funding cuts to libraries in Somerset has been halted, after the High Court found... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent publisher Saqi Books is to launch a new non-fiction imprint, with plans to publish... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
News Corp. (NWSA) for the first time publicly detailed bribery by a journalist at its now-defunct News of the World, telling a court that a former editor agreed to pay a prison guard to get a story about a child killer. Matt Nixson, a features edit ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Illustrated publisher Thames & Hudson is to expand its children's list with new non-... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster non-fiction commissioning editor Colin Midson is leaving the company to set... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Immediate Media, the company formed out of the sale of BBC Magazines to a private equity company, has purchased You & Your Wedding and Prima Baby & Pregnancy magazines from Hearst Magazines. Continue reading >> [ Source: Media Week | 2012-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sales of Kindles and tablet computers helped boost revenue for Tesco electronics over Christmas,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Booksellers Association has dismissed volunteer-run libraries as "unsustainable",... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
The chairman of the Apostrophe Society has called Waterstones' dropping of its apostrophe... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Audiobook publisher Naxos will join the fray surrounding the Charles Dickens bicentenary as it... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette Books Ireland has acquired the autobiography of footballer Roy Keane's dog, Triggs,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Joanna Ellis, former marketing director at Faber, is to join The Literary Platform as associate... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Carlton Books has today (11th January) released the first ebook editions of its Olympic... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Restaurant chain McDonald's is to give away nine million copies of Michael Morpurgo's... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]