HarperCollins and Canongate have backed Fabers Stephen Pages calls for a new... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The five publishers being investigated over ebook pricing could face fines of many millions of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber is to publish Winter Journal, a second work of memoir by American writer Paul Auster, in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
There may be no greater indication of how things have changed in corporate publishing than the results of an informal PW search for sleeper hits of the year from major publishers. We annually round up sleepers from indie publishers for a late summer feature, but we have not made a regular habit... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Foyle family investment vehicle Noved Investment Holdings is selling the leasehold to the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
At a time when ebooks and e-tailers are capturing a greater portion of the bricks-and-mortar book market, sidelines have become essential for filling the void formerly occupied by booksand keeping cash registers ringing. So much so that when Eileen McGervey opened One More Page in Arlington,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
FOLIO:s Eddie and Ozzie awards competition is the largest of its kind for magazine publishers. It also has the proud distinction of being the only awards event open to magazines and websites of all kindsconsumer, b-to-b, association, custom and regional, big and small. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google on Thursday officially launched Google Currents, a news reading application for Android and iOS-based smartphones and tablets, and publishing backend for content producers. Similar in concept to Flipboard, Zite or any of the dozens of "iPad magazines," Google Currents lets readers... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2011-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The editor of the London Evening Standard, Geordie Greig, is to chair the panel of judges for the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The BBC's award for short fiction is to turn international for one year to celebrate the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Semi-Homemade, the magazine of Food Network celebrity chef Sandra Lee, will no longer be published by Birmingham, Alabama-based Hoffman Media following its January/February 2012 issue. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
In August 2009, Jim Joseph was named president and COO of Globe Pequot Press. At the time the Guilford, Conn., press was going through something of an identity crisis. In the three years before Josephs appointment, Globe Pequot had been trying to remake itself along the lines of a New York City... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Claymation, Chimpanzee, Coriolanus, Close (Glenn), comedy (lots), and classics (happy 200th birthday, Mr. Dickens)looks like a cool collection. Several of the seasons movies are based on nonfiction works: Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin (Tina Fey was busy?), Meryl (Streep) as Margaret... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury has set up a literary events arm called Bloomsbury Institute, hosting literary salons... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
If showrooming wasnt part of the industry lexicon before last week, it is now, thanks to Amazons price check app that gives customers up to $15 in discounts to those who scan prices of products at different stores. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Late deliveries via courier Yodel have concerned independent booksellers who say they fear for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
James Connolly has worn a number of different hats in his publishing career, most recently as publisher of the books division of University Games of San Francisco, which followed his time as CEO and publisher of Bay/Soma Books, but it didnt take long for him to make the move to Council Oak... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Meadowside Childrens Books plans to grow its Young Adult fiction list in 2013 and has... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Late deliveries via courier Yodel have concerned independent booksellers who say they fear for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Somerset County Council has confirmed it is reversing its library cuts programme following the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]