Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Tue, 26/04/2011 - 15:48 The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams criticised library closures during his Easter Sermon, delivered at the weekend. read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-26 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 ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Tue, 26/04/2011 - 12:15 Faber's Malcolm Tucker: The Missing Phone app, launched last Christmas, has been nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) award. The app has made the shortlist of four in the New Media category,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
McGraw-Hill says revenue grew 7.7 percent to $1. 3 billion while net income jumped 16.2 percent to $120 million in the first quarter of 2011. Revenue in McGraw-Hill's Information & Media segment rose 10.3 percent to $227.5 million while operating profit grew 34.5 percent to $37.4 million. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Bookseller Staff Publication Date: Tue, 26/04/2011 - 08:45 A demerger of W H Smith's high street stores and its travel branches is unlikely in the near term, but not impossible to imagine in the future, W H Smith chief executive Kate Swann has told the Telegraph, in a rare... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Tue, 26/04/2011 - 08:48 Agents are anticipating escalators in ebook contracts to become "the norm rather than the exception", as they reported already having negotiated the clause with UK publishers in some cases. An escalator clause means the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Jenny Roper Publication Date: Tue, 26/04/2011 - 15:00 Hodder & Stoughton has bought world rights to two parenting guides by Nöel Janis-Norton, an advisor to actress Helena Bonham Carter. The first title Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting will be published in spring 2012 and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Bookseller Staff Publication Date: Tue, 26/04/2011 - 08:47 Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut could reportedly buy Waterstone's for £35m. The oligarch could close a deal for the British high street retailer as soon as this week, the Sunday Times reports. There are also reports... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barnes & Noble Inc. is stepping up their e-reader offering, upping the NOOK Color experience to rival those of tablet computers like the iPad and Motorola Xoom. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Jenny Roper Publication Date: Tue, 26/04/2011 - 08:26 Hodder has paired up with Bentley Motors to create an exclusive edition of the new James Bond novel Carte Blanche by Jeffrey Deaver, available to pre-order from today (26th April). The 500 limited edition copies, each priced at... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle and James Dashner's the Maze Runner trilogy are both drawing to a conclusion, while noteworthy collaborations from Daniel Handler and Maira Kalman, and Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, set sail. Also look for fresh ventures from William Joyce, Maggie... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
In deciding to launch the ABC Video Bookstore, Andrew Morse said the giant media company was looking for a product that could reach viewers who are attached to a digital reading device, be it an iPad, Kindle, or cellphone, and decided that an enhanced ebook was the right one. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent booksellers may have dreaded Borders's arrival in New York City in 1996, but it was Barnes & Noble that tried to keep its longtime rival out by leasing every available 40,000-sq.-ft. space on its home turf. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barnes & Nobles advertising campaign for the Nook Color, an e-reading tablet, features no company stores in the ads, a nod to changes in the publishing industry. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2011-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
A free update is bringing the ability to install various paid and free Android apps, though only those that Barnes & Noble approves. The new software also offers improved browsing, the Froyo version of Android and support for video content within books. Even with the update, the Nook Color... Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2011-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Special K is a $1 billion brand in the U.S., selling an estimated 168 million boxes of cereal a year. This spring, Kellogg's and Weldon Owen are hoping a massive marketing campaign can extend the brand's success into the book world. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
"The value of personal interaction still trumps all" is a firm belief of Steve Rosato, BEA show manager, who is all fired up for BEA 2011, the second under his command. And while the event's main focus is books and authors, technology and the digital revolution is also at the epicenter of this... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
One of the industry's biggest issues in 2011 is the loss of retail shelf space for print titles. The trend of book retailers devoting less spaceand generating lower salesfrom new books is seen in the recently released 10-k filings from Books-A-Million and Hastings Entertainment. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon has tweaked its Kindle for Android app to run optimally on tablets running Android 3.0 Honeycomb. Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2011-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
On Thursday, Apple released a minor update to its iBooks ebook and PDF reading app for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2011-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]