The British Retail Consortium has labelled November sales growth "the worst for six months... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Local campaigners have accused Lewisham council of operating a two-tier library service after the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Man Booker Prize shortlisted author Hisham Matar has been elected onto the board of writers... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Poet Alice Oswald has withdrawn her book Memorial (Faber) from the T S Eliot prize because of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury is to offer online services to help unpublished authors learn about the publishing... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Orion is to extend its early reader series after achieving sales of 1.3 million units for the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Booksellers say they are set for a "range Christmas", predicting that it will benefit... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
More than a third of publishers internationally believe that digital formats will account for at... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers should offer "enhanced hardbacks" with print and digital packaged together,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Waterstone's m.d. James Daunt has called Amazon a "ruthless, money-making devil",... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House parent company Bertelsmann has created a new group management committee (GMC), which... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Penguin Group has bought a 45% stake in Brazil's leading trade publisher, Companhia das... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The number of children who do not own a book is increasing, the National Literacy Trust has said... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
According to a survey, 24 percent of people who said they had bought books from an online retailer in the last month also said they had seen the book in a brick-and-mortar bookstore first. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2011-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Novelist Nicholas Royle has moved to Jonathan Cape and Vintage for his seventh novel, titled,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Googles advertising horsepower is about to get even greater. In a blog post Friday, Googles VP of display advertising Neal Mohan announced that the Department of Justice had approved its $400 million acquisition of the New York-based online advertising company Admeld. Google, which announced... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2011-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Unpublished author Jamie Crook has won this year's Luke Bitmead Writer's Bursary for his... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
When it comes to copyright, the discussion today invariably focuses on piracy. For todays large copyright-based industries, almost any unauthorized use of their content is considered stealing. But the real question may be what such a restrictive reading of copyright steals from the public. In... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Although the staff at Melville House originally envisioned David Graebers new book as a short work on the economy, it just kept growing until Debt: The First 5,000 Years, a now 550-page comprehensive work on the impact of financial issues on people, was eventually published this past summer.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former Waterstone's m.d. Tim Coates is to launch Bilbary (www.bilbary.com), an international... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]