Analysis: Amazon's admission of selling a million Kindles per week is good news for the ebook market in general. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2011-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Headline has bought world rights to cookery book The Fabulous Baker Brothers. Deputy publishing... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
A few days after Amazon announced that the Steve Jobs biography was its top-selling book of 2011 (combined print and ebook sales), the book debuted on bestseller charts around the world, including the three countries highlighted this month. Steve Jobs was #3 in France and the Netherlands, and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Quercus has acquired a second book by prize-winning YA author Greg Hughes, with plans to publish... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Phoenix story comic, which launches on 7th January 2012, will be distributed nationally by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Murray is to publish a posthumous book by travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor, who died in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The year 2011 will go down in the history books as a great year for tablets mostly for Apple?s iPad, however -- not all tablet vendors fared as well as Apple. It'?s not for lack of products that prevented Android tablets from taking any market share away from Apple this year. By our calculation,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2011-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Cheap new e-readers are expected to be one of the hottest gifts this holiday season. But new owners of Kindles and Nooks may be in for sticker shock on Christmas morning: The price gap between the print and e-versions of some top sellers has now narrowed to within a few dollars -- and in some... Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2011-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fear that Amazon will come to dominate the bookselling market is nothing new in the publishing industry. But last week, as booksellers continued to decry the companys price check app (which could be used to access prices on booksellers sideline items, like toys and DVDs) and as information... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hay House has bought world English rights to a new title from How I Said Bah! To Cancer author... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins has acquired an account of this year's Libyan conflict by Sky News reporter... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Anova Books has signed two deals for books marking the Queen's diamond jubilee next year,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Readers Digest Association has eliminated 150 positions across all of its business groups worldwide, with half the cuts affecting jobs in the U.S. and the other half international. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Since its launch last December in partnership with the American Booksellers Association, Google eBooks has yet to capture significant market share. According to the Codex Groups recent Showrooming study, while the number of people who read both print books and ebooks has grown from 25% in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oxford University Press will be releasing its 300th Very Short Introduction title in January 2012... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
In November, when Penguin abruptly announced it was pulling its frontlist ebooks from library lending programs, the move was widely perceived as a response to Amazonand a warning that, whatever the outcome of this latest struggle over ebooks, libraries are poised to become collateral damage. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pan Macmillan launches its digital imprint Bello today (16th December) with the release of its... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Trinity Mirror has restructured the management structure across its regional division and is creating 20 new digital positions as it looks to increase its focus on digital publishing and streamline its reporting structure. Continue reading >> [ Source: Media Week | 2011-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers are planning to up their marketing campaigns over the crucial festive period,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber is to publish a "definitive" biography of entertainment mogul Simon Cowell by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-15 00:00:00 UTC ]