Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Thu, 28/04/2011 - 08:20 Faber has signed up the memoirs of the former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, for a rumoured £90,000, according to an article in the Evening Standard. The newspaper reports that the autobiograpy is to be published in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Bookseller Staff Publication Date: Thu, 28/04/2011 - 07:32 Lauren Beukes's Zoo City has been honoured with the Arthur C Clarke Award for science fiction novel of the year, being tipped to bring "a whole new readership" to the genre. Zoo City's publisher Angry Robot Books has also... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Thu, 28/04/2011 - 08:30 Selling Waterstone's for less than £70m could force the HMV Group into a company voluntary arrangement, analysts have warned. read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Thu, 28/04/2011 - 08:00 Viking has been scanning the local papers and choosing the most eyebrow-raising headlinesoften for all the wrong reasonsin a tribute to the quirky world of slow news days. Whitstable Mum in Custard Shortage . . And... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Jenny Roper Publication Date: Thu, 28/04/2011 - 06:55 German publisher Gerhard Steidl has been awarded the inaugural outstanding contribution to publishing award at his year's Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards. Steidl received the prize last night (27th April). He still independently... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Thu, 28/04/2011 - 15:39 UK publishers are locked in discussions with librarians over ground rules for ebook lending, with librarians continuing to press publishers to allow institutions to loan ebooks under the one ebook, one loan, model pioneered... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Thu, 28/04/2011 - 11:25 HarperCollins has acquired three novels from debut historical fiction author Joanna Hickson. HarperFiction commissioning editor Kate Bradley bought world rights through Jenny Brown at Jenny Brown Associates, with the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Bookseller Staff Publication Date: Wed, 27/04/2011 - 09:15 Electronics giant Sony has unveiled two rival tablets that it hopes will target the Apple iPad market. Codenamed S1 and S2 the devices will not be available for sale until the autumn, but nevertheless boast, according to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
After years of marginal acceptance, ebooks have finally started to eclipse their printed-and-bound ancestors. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2011-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
ComScore Inc. is expanding its measurement services with a new tool that will increase the ability to provide specific and targeted content to audiences. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Bookseller Staff Publication Date: Wed, 27/04/2011 - 08:40 Penguin USA is to launch a community website for genre writers called Book Country (bookcountry.com). The site began a public beta test this week and describes itself as "a place where readers and writers of genre fiction... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Jenny Roper Publication Date: Wed, 27/04/2011 - 08:58 Helen Dunmore's The Betrayal has made it onto the six-strong shortlist of the Orwell Prize for political writing, the first novel to be shortlisted since 2008. The list, whittled down from 213 titles by BBC Radio 4's Jim... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Wed, 27/04/2011 - 15:46 John Smith & Son deputy chairman Willie Anderson has retired after 38 years' service. Anderson began his career at the academic bookseller as a bookshop sales assistant in 1973 and was the first staff member to be... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 27/04/2011 - 09:11 The trustee of the estate of the late Willy the Wizard author Adrian Jacobs has appealed against the High Court's order for him to pay £1.5m as security for the costs of J K Rowling and Bloomsbury before the plagiarism... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
It's not unusual for bookstores to have cafés, so perhaps it's only to be expected that a book wholesaler might want to get into food service, or one of its partners would. That's the case for Bookazine COO Richard Kallman, who recently added a new title, CEO of CupcakeStop. Kallman, who had... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
In a white paper titled The Media Company of the Future: The Revolution Goes On, consulting firm AMR International Consulting Inc. outlines the steps it says traditional companies must take to incorporate technological advances into their business model and stay competitive against New world... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Philip Jones and Jenny Roper Publication Date: Wed, 27/04/2011 - 16:00 Book sales dropped 9% last week as the Easter weekend cut into retail time, but the market was still up on the same week last year with sales up 2.1%, a second consecutive week of year-on-year growth after a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Wed, 27/04/2011 - 09:39 Amazon.com has reported a steep drop in profit despite boosting sales by over a third. Amazon.co.uk also revealed that one print book and four ebooks were among its top 10 bestselling items in the quarter, with the Kindle... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Jenny Roper Publication Date: Wed, 27/04/2011 - 15:25 Book recommendation website Lovereading.co.uk has added Apple's iBooks to its ebook recommendations section. As well as pointing readers in the direction of ePub and Kindle formats, Lovereading.co.uk will now feature an... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Conde Nast has noted that the iPad ready issues of their titles may not be doing as well as they (and every other publisher who ran to the gold mine of digital publishing) had planned. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]