Online-only news sites received moreand more positiveonline buzz than their print-affiliated counterparts in 2011, according to a data-mining tool developed by digital marketing agency Zeta Interactive. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sales of cheaply priced classics are surging, with publisher Wordsworth Editions seeing sales of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Little, Brown non-fiction publishing director Tim Whiting has sealed two "strong" deals... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Last November, when Barnes & Noble announced that it was putting itself up for sale, Neil Van Uums bank called in the loan for his Joseph-Beth Booksellers chain. The ensuing bankruptcy has since wound down, but only after three of the six JoBeth stores closedCharlotte, N.C.; Pittsburgh,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Cambridge University Press' Cambridge Journals division has set up an article rental scheme... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barnes & Nobles second-quarter results were full of mixed signals about how the company itself is doing as well as for the bookselling and publishing markets. During the quarter, B&N cut its net loss in half and saw EBITDA rise 21%, to $56 million. Sales, however, slipped 0.6%, with... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Orion will be celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2012, marking the milestone by re-releasing 20... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster has acquired a memoir by Sam Faiers, star of reality TV series "The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Usborne is focusing on series and younger readers to help grow its fiction sales in the coming... 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 ]
Even in tense times, there is far more that unites publishers and libraries than divides them. And if one needs proof that librarians and publishers share common goals and can work together to mutual benefit, they need look no further than the career of Marcia Purcell, Random Houses v-p of... 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 ]
While publishers have been reorganizing their sales forces for years, the shifting marketplaceone without Borders and with a lot fewer print booksis forcing publishers to rethink more than ever how they sell. Hachette Book Groups elimination of 11 sales rep positions earlier this fall sent... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Collins has acquired a new title by economist Noreena Hertz, The Tiger and The Snake: Twelve... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-02 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 ]
The Federation of Children's Book Groups (FCBG) has won the 2011 Eleanor Farjeon Award. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The only non-fiction title shortlisted for the 2011 Guardian First Book Award has taken home the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Letterbox Library, a supplier of multicultural books to schools and early years settings, is... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fourth Estate has acquired the story of a young Irish traveller after a four-way auction. Claire... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]