The Folio Society has awarded its media account to Total Media, as the 64-year-old publisher tries to overcome the market challenges presented by ebooks. Continue reading >> [ Source: Media Week | 2011-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Philip Jones Publication Date: Wed, 03/08/2011 - 09:14 Facebook has bought the innovative ebook publisher Push Pop Press but will not use the company to publish ebooks. The giant social networking website will instead use PPP's platform and technology to give "people even richer... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Time Warner Inc. released its second-quarter results today, posting its highest growth rate since third quarter 2007. Overall revenues rose 10 percent to $7 billion compared to same period 2010. Its publishing division also did wellTime Inc. boosted revenues 3 percent for the quarter, with... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Philip Stone Publication Date: Thu, 04/08/2011 - 09:30 Man Booker Prize bookies favourite Alan Hollinghurst is proving the most popular of the longlisted titles among the book buying public. read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Thu, 04/08/2011 - 09:00 The editor of the Times Literary Supplement has said the newspaper's "commitment to continuing and enhancing TLS standards of criticism... remains absolute," despite announcing the redundancy of its fiction editor. Lindsay... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 03/08/2011 - 09:35 The Government has largely endorsed the recommendations of the Hargreaves Review, though, according to reports, business secretary Vince Cable has admitted that the website blocking clauses of the Digital Economy Act are... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Tue, 02/08/2011 - 12:24 Vintage author Henning Mankell, in collaboration with Ystad Tourism, has released a free app that enables fans get to know more about the location of the crime series, following the movements of fictional detective Kurt... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Tue, 02/08/2011 - 09:03 Ebury has launched a digital imprint, initially focusing on abridged versions of Ebury's narrative non-fiction titles, called Lives Less Ordinary. Deputy publisher Andrew Goodfellow is behind the new range of digital... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Tue, 02/08/2011 - 09:01 Sony has listed its ebook readers as out of stock on its website, raising speculation it could be on the verge of launching a new digital device. read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Philip Stone Publication Date: Tue, 02/08/2011 - 15:53 Sophie Kinsellas sixth Shopaholic instalment, Mini Shopaholic (Black Swan), was comfortably the bestselling book in the UK last week, earning the novelist her ninth Official UK Top 50 number one. read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
In an early teaser video for AOLs new digital magazine, the project's lead director puckishly called it the app for when you crap. But make no doubt about it, AOL's iPad app Editions which launches this week, wants to be your personalized, daily reader for the bathroom, bedroom, and anywhere... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2011-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Philip Jones Publication Date: Tue, 02/08/2011 - 15:11 Academic and professional publisher Sage has bought Learning Matters, the independent education publisher founded in 1999. The sale, for an undisclosed sum, was announced jointly by Learning Matters founder and managing... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hearsts U.K. division, the National Magazine Company, is officially merged with Hachette Filipacchi UK Ltd. The group is now under the moniker Hearst Magazines UK. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Tue, 02/08/2011 - 08:53 Quercus has bought another two books by its young adult fiction author Cat Clarke. Roisin Heycock, editorial director at Quercus Children's Books, bought the rights from Victoria Birkett of Miles Stott. The first of the two... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Tue, 02/08/2011 - 09:02 Wokingham borough council plans to begin discussions this month with private companies interested in taking over the running of the borough's libraries. According to a report in the Wokingham Times, the council's executive... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Creative consultant JC Suares shares some of the biggest headscratchers he's heard from editors, publishers and designers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Barbara Casassus Publication Date: Tue, 02/08/2011 - 12:25 The agreement for Google to scan out-of-print French language books for Hachette Livre has been signed, two months later than scheduled. The five-year agreement should have been finalised six months after the memorandum of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Tue, 02/08/2011 - 08:59 Mobcast, the digital company behind the mobile phone ebook company GoSpoken, has secured an undisclosed amount of fresh funding from two investment groups. The company said the cash, from technology venture capitalist fund... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
While many publishers are still grappling with the question of digital properties and revenue, The Financial Times continues to reap positive benefits from its paid collection model, according to first half 2011 financials released Friday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Weekly and bi-weekly magazines proved to be more agile in the first half of 2011 than their monthly counterparts, posting a 1.3 percent gain in ad pages, according to MagazineRadar. Monthly magazines ad pages only increased .3 percent during the same period. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]