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 ]
This week, a fistful of mystery-thrillers bump up against bios of Elizabeth II and the Obamas, as well as a fascinating memoir from the "godfather of rap." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The first category of this year's Bookseller Industry Awards opens next week, with... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
US bookseller Barnes & Noble has said that it is considering separating its Nook business... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Children's Group has created the role of acquisitions manager for its media and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
In The Obamas, journalist Kantor expands on her personal-is-political approach to look at the evolving relationships among the Obama family, the White House, and the Presidency. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ever since Algonquin used the American Booksellers Association’s Winter Institute to get booksellers to read and fall in love with Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants, which sold more than a million copies before being turned into a film, publishers have been using the winter bookselling confab to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
To kick off the new year, Flammarion (and their distributor, Rizzoli) shares some captivating images from the forthcoming volume The Mastery of Time, an illustrated history by Dominique Flechon. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The first category of this year's Bookseller Industry Awards opens next week, with... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Leading US book retailer Barnes & Noble has reported sales of its Nook e-reading devices... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
IPC Media magazine Marie Claire has appointed Toby Evans as publisher, from his position as associate publisher on woman's weekly title Look. Continue reading >> [ Source: Media Week | 2012-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
W H Smith has been upgraded from neutral to a 'buy' by Bank of America Merrill Lynch... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Tip Sheet called up Sarah Bagby, owner of Watermark Books in Wichita, Kan., to find out what’s being exchanged during the annual post-holiday gift-correction season. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Aperture, a nonprofit foundation dedicated to promoting photography, is gearing up for a big year in 2012. In addition to celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, it has teamed with Paris Photo, the annual French photography fair, to launch The PhotoBook Review, a new biannual publication on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barnes & Noble has undergone lots of changes since Len Riggio first took over the bookstore chain in 1965, and it is heading toward what could be its most dramatic makeover since Riggio bought the B. Dalton chain. Although it is far from certain what will happen, B&N is in the early... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The BA has announced that this year's flagship book trade conference is moving out of London... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Last year, when we asked publishers for their five bestselling ebooks over Christmas, we received lists full of frontlist bestsellers, with a handful of backlist hits in the mix. This year, we again approached publishers for the same lists—in most cases sales are only for December 25 and 26,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Tip Sheet asked the author of The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel of North Korea what kind of impact the death of “dear leader” Kim Jong-il will have on the nation’s oppressed citizenry. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Picador will be re-issuing 12 classic novels it has published across the past four decades in a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sales of ebooks will "double in size in a flat market" over the course of 2012,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]