Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Mon, 18/07/2011 - 16:54 Sarah Odedina is leaving her role as Bloomsbury's group editor-in-chief of children's fiction to become managing director and publisher of a new company for Bonnier Publishing. read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Mon, 18/07/2011 - 12:15 Headline has pre-empted a debut novel about a man's whose nine month old daughter is abducted by carjackers in South Africa. Publisher at large Martin Fletcher bought world rights to Held Up by Christopher Radmann from Juliet... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon, which dominates the ebook market, has stayed out of the electronic textbook market. Until now: The company has opened up a textbook store for its Kindle platform, where it is renting "tens of thousands" of titles for the upcoming school year. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2011-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Reader's Digest Association is on the block, seeking a price of around $1 billion, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal, which says the company may sell off piece by piece rather than as a whole. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Mon, 18/07/2011 - 09:25 Waterstone's managing director James Daunt has told staff "its approach to buying must change" and said he plans a "complete overhaul" of the chain's infrastructure. In an email to staff, Daunt said it was essential an... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Mon, 18/07/2011 - 15:00 The Reading Agency director Miranda McKearney has called for the annual Summer Reading Challenge, which launches its 2011 run today (18th July), to be on every head teacher's school improvement plan. read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Mon, 18/07/2011 - 15:22 Amazon.com is giving students the ability to rent textbooks on Kindle e-readers. The company said students can save up to 80% off textbook prices with the new initiative, which launched today. Kindle Textbook Rental will also... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Mon, 18/07/2011 - 12:19 Transworld senior editorial director Sarah Emsley is leaving the publisher to join Headline as its deputy publishing director. She will join the publisher on 19th September and will report to publishing director Jonathan... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hearst-owned magazines is treading on to Groupon's territory with the launch of group-buying discounts, starting off with Road & Track and Car and Driver. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2011-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
TRANSFORMEDFor some new releases, digital sales outpace print sales. The Columbia Publishing Course teaches the old and the new of the business. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2011-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
E-commerce is a big opportunity for publishers. If you talk to the people at Net-A-Porter or the people at Gilt, they say theyre increasingly commerce companies moving into content and I think what youre going to find is content companies are going to move into commerce, Hearst Magazines... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Fri, 15/07/2011 - 14:29 Ebury is hoping to have unearthed the talents of a new generation of war poets as it publishes a collection of verses, selected by a panel including poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, to coincide with Armistice Day. read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
By Tim Conneally, Betanews The business model behind textbooks is completely out of step with what the market today wants, according to the head of Nature Publishing's digital textbook initiatives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2011-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
One of the first hot-button issues confronting publishers in what will be one of the most unpredictable fall and holiday selling seasons in years is what the correct first printings should be for lead frontlist titles, given the growth of ebook sales and the decline of print. With units of print... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Fri, 15/07/2011 - 08:55 A claim that J K Rowling's fourth Harry Potter book plagiarised a work by author Adrian Jacobs may be thrown out of court by the end of today. Paul Allen, trustee of the estate of Adrian Jacobs who died in 1997, has accused... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
After debuting on the Android 3.0 Honeycomb platform for tablets last month, the Zinio digital newsstand is now universally available on all Android devices. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Roger Tagholm Publication Date: Fri, 15/07/2011 - 11:00 When youve got the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge as your unpaid publicists, it does your business no harm. Kingsley Dawson, co-founder and chairman of Bookspeed, the Edinburgh-based supplier to the gift and heritage market... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Caroline Horn Publication Date: Fri, 15/07/2011 - 08:46 The industry is "haemorrhaging talent" as authors and illustrators are finding it increasingly difficult to make a living in the children's sector. Agent Caroline Sheldon said that she estimated that fewer than half of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Bookseller Staff Publication Date: Fri, 15/07/2011 - 08:50 Borders could cease to exist by the end of next week although the retailer's lawyer said it has received other inquiries that could result in a takeover. On Wednesday a committee of unsecured creditors rejected a takeover... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Fri, 15/07/2011 - 10:29 A new collection of stories from the late Nobel Prize-winning author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; a début by a former Macmillan, Penguin and Hachette marketer; and Richard Fords new novel were among the rights deals signed this... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]