In a major departure for Hay House, the self-help and spirituality publisher is jumping into the fiction market. Its debut mystery novel, The First Rule of Ten by psychologist Gay Hendricks and screen writer Tinker Lindsay, will be published in January. Hay House has signed up 10 additional... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Mon, 07/11/2011 - 09:15 World Book Day is set for a 2012 revamp, with new management, branding and digital promotional ideas hoping to achieve more than one million book token redemptions. WBD will return on 1st March 2012led by childrens marketing... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Neill Denny Publication Date: Fri, 04/11/2011 - 10:22 A confident James Daunt toasted the future at a major party held last night in central London, an occasion that also saw new Waterstone's chairman of the board Miranda Curtis introduced to the book trade. read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Fri, 04/11/2011 - 11:01 Headline has acquired the next book by Soccer Saturday presenter Jeff Stelling, with the Sky Sports football pundit moving with his editor Jonathan Taylor from HarperSport. Publishing director Taylor bought world... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
While sales of hardcover titles are declining for most publishers and retailers, Forever Books in St. Joseph, Mich., a tourist town on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, reports that its hardcover sales are booming. Robin Allen, who has owned the store for 13 years, attributes the trend to the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Fri, 04/11/2011 - 15:27 World Book Day is set for a 2012 revamp, with new management, branding and digital promotional ideas hoping to achieve more than one million book token redemptions. WBD will return on 1st March 2012led by childrens marketing... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Fri, 04/11/2011 - 10:53 William Heinemann has acquired a debut crime novel, the first in a series to feature civilian investigator Catherine Berlin, written by Annie Hauxwell. Publisher Jason Arthur bought UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Fri, 04/11/2011 - 10:58 HarperCollins Children's Books has bought world rights to the original Bugsy Malone book, which was later adapted into the much loved musical. Publisher Ann-Janine Murtagh bought rights to the novel and graphic novel directly... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
For nearly a decade, some say even longer, people in the publishing industry have been decrying the death of the midlist. As the story goes, the industry consolidatedsmaller and midsize publishers were gobbled up and brought together into six large houses that themselves are small pieces of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
It may be increasingly common for first-time authors who cant place their book with a trade house to publish themselves. But its pretty rare for a self-published book to sell more than 1.5 million copiesor move to the small screen as an animated film to be aired on CBS in prime time on Black... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new website aimed at helping authors to publish their work has been praised by author and Monty Python star, Terry Jones. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2011-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Fri, 04/11/2011 - 15:11 Constable & Robinson is getting into the Dickens bicentennial spirit, publishing a novel re-examining the events of Bleak House. read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Fri, 04/11/2011 - 10:54 Simon & Schuster has bought rights to an autobiography by Australian swimming star Ian Thorpe. World rights from Jonathan Kilmartin and Sarah Wooldridge at IMG by Larissa Edwards, S&S's Australian head of publishing,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
American Media, Inc. (AMI) and Michael Esposito, Senior Vice President of Operations and Digital Production, think they've hit upon a recipe that could work across the magazine industry for rationalizing print publishing costs and scaling up on digital platforms. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Thu, 03/11/2011 - 09:55 Penguin's ebook sales have more than doubled in the first nine months of 2011, as parent Pearson reported an increase in total sales of 3% and operating profit of 13%. Total sales at Penguin for the nine months to 30th... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
New YorkMashable has come a long way from its beginnings as a Wordpress blog that a 19-year-old Pete Cashmore launched as a way to connect with his peers and learn about social media and tech as he went along. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon.com announced the launch of an ebook lending library for Kindle users, that allows Amazon Prime members to borrow books for free, as frequently as a book... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2011-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Thu, 03/11/2011 - 09:53 Library campaigners have called for vision and leadership for the public library service following publication of the latest annual library statistics from The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA).... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Users can start borrowing books from Amazon right now, so here's what you need to know about using the service with your Kindle device. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2011-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Thu, 03/11/2011 - 16:14 Amazon and W H Smith are HarperCollins' strongest players in bookselling, its c.e.o. has claimed. Victoria Barnsley was speaking after the publisher's parent NewsCorp reported its third quarter results, for the three months to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]