Apple has officially rolled out its long awaited subscription-model for content publishers in the App Store. Under the plan, if subscribers come to a publisher's app organically through the App store, Apple gets a 30 percent share. If the publisher brings a new or existing subscriber to the App,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Tue, 15/02/2011 - 09:43 Most publishers are neglecting the marketing role provided by bricks and mortar bookshops, said the head of Quarto as it unveiled its annual results. Chairman and c.e.o. Laurence Orbach said he was "pleased" with the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publication Date: Tue, 15/02/2011 - 09:47 Operation Mincemeat author Ben Macintyre is to chair the judging panel for this year's BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. The panel also comprises historian, writer and broadcaster Amanda Vickery, Prospect's editor-at-large David Goodhart,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Mon, 14/02/2011 - 08:46 Borders is expected to file for bankruptcy as soon as tomorrow [15th February], after it failed to agree new funding of more than $1bn with lenders. The book retailer has been struggling for months, with Publishers Weekly... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Mon, 14/02/2011 - 15:26 David Graham has been appointed managing director of Aurum and its UK trade publishing division, also titled Aurum. Former Granta staff Alex Clark and Rosalind Porter are also to set up a new literary imprint at the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
As the Paris Cookbook Fair gets underway next month, cookbook publishers are getting ready to do some shopping--and not just the sort that involves stocking up on Dijon mustard and bonbons from Fauchon. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Mon, 14/02/2011 - 15:23 Hodder & Stoughton has acquired world rights to the first title from BBC Comedy web hit Misery Bear. H&S publisher Lisa Highton bought Misery Bear's Guide to Love & Heartbreak from Roughcut TV. The title will... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
With Grant Thornton, the financial company managing the affairs of Canada's bankrupt distributor H.B. Fenn, saying more details about the alternatives it is exploring on the Fenn bankruptcy are still a week or so away, some industry members are questioning whether distribution is still a viable... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Luxury magazine publisher Condé Nast is launching a London newsagent, which will sell more than 110 of its magazines from around the world. Continue reading >> [ Source: Media Week | 2011-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Mon, 14/02/2011 - 15:25 Accent Press imprint Xcite Books is launching a "one-stop shop" for romantic and erotic ebooks and audio formats. The site, www.erotica-romance-ebooks.com, will launch on 1st March and replaces Xcite's three current sites... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookstores may be many things, but fashionable isnt usually one of them. That could change now that designer Marc Jacobs has put his imprimatur on Bookmarc stores on both coasts and added branded Bookmarc sections to a handful of MJ stores from Provincetown, Mass., to San Francisco, as well as... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Tue, 15/02/2011 - 08:51 Transworld is to publish music memoir The Story of the Streets by Mike Skinner, detailing the rise of the Birmingham-born rapper and his band. Editorial director Simon Thorogood bought UK and Commonwealth rights from Jon... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Mon, 14/02/2011 - 08:39 The government may take direct control of libraries if councils are overzealous in closures. The Sunday Times, quoting Whitehall sources, said the government is concerned some communities, particularly rural ones, may end up... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Using a formula that company president Mike Pellerito sums up as "really sexy girls and really funny guys," the venerable comics publisher Archie Comics has been chronicling the exploits of perpetual teenagers Archie, Betty, Veronica, Jughead, Big Moose, and the rest of their Riverdale High... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Caroline Horn Publication Date: Mon, 14/02/2011 - 16:10 read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Mon, 14/02/2011 - 09:48 British Bookshops and Stationers owes £6.3million to its unsecured creditors, it has been revealed. A statement of the troubled company's financial affairs released over the weekend showed that while owing the vast sum,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publication Date: Mon, 14/02/2011 - 08:31 Apple's iBookstore is the latest retailer to sign up to Fiction Uncovered as the new promotion for midlist authors attracts 80 submissions. The online giant joins Waterstone's and Waterstones.co.uk, Foyles, The Book Depository, Amazon.co.uk, W H Smith... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Mon, 14/02/2011 - 17:21 HarperCollins Childrens Books publishing director Helen Mackenzie Smith has bought her first books since joining the publisher from Random House earlier this year. She bought four books by picture author and illustrator Rachel... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
As Meghan O'Rourke reported here last week, VIDA, an organization for women writers, has released a tally of male and female bylines for the 2010 run of 14 high-end, literary-oriented magazines. Despite a couple of relatively bright spots (the New York Times Book Review surprisingly being one),... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2011-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Fri, 11/02/2011 - 08:28 An open letter to culture secretary Jeremy Hunt and culture minister Ed Vaizey calling for a halt to library closures after the success of last weekend's protests has been signed by high-profile authors including Sarah... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]