Simon & Schuster has appointed Claire Hey as senior commissioning editor for fiction,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-11 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 ]
Random House Canada has become the sole owner of trade publishing house McClelland & Stewart... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
An "unprecedented" seven novels have been shortlisted for the 2011 Man Asian Literary... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon's Kindle Store is now iPad optimized. The company on Tuesday introduced a new touch-friendly version of its ebook storefront for iPad that allows readers to purchase and read Kindle books whether it be in Safari with Kindle Cloud Reader or Kindle for iPad. Located at... Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2012-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Wenner Media has named a new chief digital officer, David Kang, who becomes the third person to hold the position in less than a year. Wenner hired its first chief digital officer, Steven Schwartz, in 2009. He left in May for his old employer, Reuters. The next person in the job, Michael... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2012-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Vintage Publishing is to include reader-generated content in next month's paperback edition... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Profile Books is to publish a new take on the origins of life by Royal Society prizewinner Nick... 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 ]
Sales of the Costa Book of the Year category winners have trebled since their victories last week... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bertrams has revealed sales dropped by 0.6% on a like-for-like basis in the run up to the festive... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Karina Luke has been appointed executive director of Book Industry Communication (BIC), taking up... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
TV presenter Stephen Fry is to judge an international competition, launched by literature and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Headline Review has acquired a new title by the author of The Statistical Probability of Love at... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The debut novel by “Newsnight” economics editor Paul Mason has been acquired by No... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Examiners should not be allowed to recommend their own textbooks or stage seminars for teachers,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pan Macmillan has purchased two more novels from the author of Christmas at Tiffany's.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mobile rich media ad platform Medialets is getting into the matchmaking business. In an announcement today, the New York-based company said it is launching Medialets Private Marketplace, an invitation-only buying platform to connect advertisers with the Web’s top mobile publishers. Unlike an ad... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2012-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber Academy graduate S J Watson's début novel, Before I Go to Sleep, has stormed to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent Booksellers Week is to take place over the first week of July, with the Booksellers... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]