In a new twist on the user generated content model, Meredith’s Ladies’ Home Journal is turning over editorial reins to its readers. As of its March issue, almost every story featured in the magazine will include some audience contribution. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Daily is finally available in Android, sort of. The News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) tablet tabloid, which has been iPad only since birth, is not being offered in the Android Marketplace but instead will start life in its second OS only on certain Verizon ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 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 ]
F+W Media, a Blue Ash, Ohio-based media company serving enthusiasts in about 20 verticals including antiques and collectibles, crafts, writing and horticulture, has acquired World Tea Media, organizer of the World Tea Expo. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 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 ]
Virgin Books has bought a title about unlikely online powerhouses, entitled Geek Gods: Fear,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Print book sales have “remained tough”, hit by consumer caution and growing ebook... 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 ]
Piccadilly Press has acquired a new title in the Alien Schoolboy series by author Ros Asquith.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sci-fi and fantasy specialist Angry Robot Books is to launch a crime fiction imprint in 2013.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Orbit has acquired a standalone novel by Michael Cobley, author of the space opera trilogy... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Customer sentiment towards the high street helped independent bookshops in the final weeks of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
An imprint of Penguin Group USA discovered Kerry Schafer after she posted samples on Bookcountry.com, a site that lets writers share their work. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2012-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Our Calls for Information for different features will appear in PW Daily on a monthly basis, and will be updated periodically. Individual calls will still also run in the print version of PW, and publicity departments are also to see our full 2012 editorial calendar. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Avon has acquired three books by debut novelist Olivia Luck, with the first novel in the series... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Gibson Square Books will be increasingly "dipping its toe" into fiction, following on... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
W H Smith Travel’s trading controller for books Julie Wright has left the business and is... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hodder & Stoughton has acquired music star Sir Elton John's first book, Love is The Cure... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Atlantic publishing director Margaret Stead has bought a debut novel set in the TriBeCa district... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Reading Agency is to launch a Mood-boosting Books campaign, teaming up with Vintage and its... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]