Books published by Abacus and Frances Lincoln took the prizes in the published work categories of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 23/11/2011 - 07:55 Authors including Jeffery Deaver, Lee Child and P D James will appear as part of Crimefest's 2012 programme, which will take place from 24th to 27th May next year. Crimefest 2012 will be the fifth year of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Stephenie Meyer's Eclipse, the third book in her bestselling Twilight series, has become the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 23/11/2011 - 08:00 Usborne has acquired a new crime series for young adults by BAFTA-winning screenwriter Chris Ould. Fiction director Rebecca Hill bought world rights, all languages, from Stephanie Thwaites of Curtis Brown. The first book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Orbit has acquired a fantasy retelling of the events of the Second World War by American author... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury has appointed Emma Blackburn, Simon & Schuster's editorial director of picture... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 23/11/2011 - 08:15 The Romantic Novelists' Association has restructured its awards, switching names from the Pure Passion Awards to the RoNAs, and with a new brand identity for the organisation. read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 23/11/2011 - 08:05 Faber has acquired a title by debut author Eugen Ruge, winner of this year's German Book Prize. Editor Sarah Savitt bought UK and Commonwealth rights to the title, In Times of Fading Light, from Katie Dublinski at... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 23/11/2011 - 08:30 W H Smith has launched a colour WiFi Kobo e-reader, priced £169.99 and with a multimedia touch screen and social media tie-in. read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
The British newspaper publisher says the pioneering Web site is "is a high-quality asset but our focus in the US is on building the Guardian." Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2011-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Guardian has put its PaidContent website up for sale with a price tag of $20m (£12.7m), three years after it bought the New York-based digital publishing and events business. Continue reading >> [ Source: Media Week | 2011-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mark Cuban has 335,000 friends on Facebook and 760,000 followers on Twitter. Monday, the Internet billionaire and owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team will test just how friendly those fans really are. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2011-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Yesterday I coughed up $6.99 for Loud Crow Interactive's digital pop-up remake of the Charles Schultz holiday classic. "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is available for Android and iOS from the Amazon, Apple and Google mobile apps stores -- for smartphones and tablets. The digital book delights, is... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2011-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Notes in the margins of ebooks could be the next platform for social interaction. At least that's what Amsterdam-based Openmargin is hoping. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2011-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hows the holiday shopping season shaping up for 2011? It could be better, market-watchers said, but it could be worse. Business is never as bad as people say, said Todd Slater, former managing director of Lazard Capital Markets, or as good. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The wide world of publishing is changing; everyone will tell you that. But if you ask what about publishing is changing, youll likely hear about the decline of physical books or the growth of digital books. And while the loss of bookstores and the latest, lightest e-reader make for compelling... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
For those who still doubt that magazine content has a place in the digital world, new data proves magazines growing digital prowess. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Two mystery book experts go head-to-head on the topic of male and female writers and characters in the genre. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The wide world of publishing is changing; everyone will tell you that. But if you ask what about publishing is changing, youll likely hear about the decline of physical books or the growth of digital books. And while the loss of bookstores and the latest, lightest e-reader make for compelling... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
For the past five years publishers have talked about the need to consolidate trade showsand lower their costs. A struggling economy, the increased power of Amazon, and the erosion of print book sales to ebooks have only accelerated calls for change from not only publishers but from some... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]