Written By: Charlotte Williams Rob Brydon, Steve Coogan and John Bishop are among the latest big-name celebrities to have been snapped up for autobiographies, as comedians look set to dominate the hardback celebrity memoir market again this autumn. Gavin and Stacey star Rob Brydons memoir is... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Katie Allen E-books are to be accepted for entry for the Man Booker prize for the first time in 2011 as a number of changes are made to the rules. Publishers are being asked to submit a digital version of their submissions as judges are to be supplied with e-readers for the first... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Philip Stone and Lisa Campbell Retailers slashed a total of £600m from the price of books in 2010 as book-buyers enjoyed their best year for bargains since records began. The average discount given off a book's r.r.p. last year was 26% slightly deeper than in 2009, when books were... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Borders has finally secured an agreement for fresh funding, with GE Capital providing $550m of new cash, but only if publishers stump up $125m. Publishers Weekly reports the troubled retailer has said for the first time that it doesn't rule out the possibility of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Kindle ebooks have overtaken paperback sales at Amazon.com, as the internet retailer revealed sales topped $10bn for the first time in its latest trading quarter. read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Online retailer reports sales of its digital ebooks has outstripped those of traditional paperbacks. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2011-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mobile app downloads will increase 117 percent to 17.7 billion worldwide while mobile application store revenue will grow to more than $15.1 billion in 2011, a 190 percent increase, according to Gartner Inc. In 2010, app stores generated an estimated $5.2 billion from both download sales and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Puffin is to publish a new picture book by The Very Hungry Caterpillar author Eric Carle, his first in four years. The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse will be published in October 2011, in a global, simultaneous publication with Philomel, a Penguin Young Readers... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Independent bookshop Bookthrift in Chesham is closing after five years trading, blaming poor sales and more people buying online and in supermarkets. The four staff in the Chiltern Hills shop in Buckinghamshire will be made redundant when it closes, although its final... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Orbit has acquired three new books in the Dresden Files series by author Jim Butcher, following Chicago private investigator and wizard Harry Dresden. read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Borrowers can create a wish list queue of books they would like to read and lenders earn 1 credit for every 5 books they list on the site as available for borrowing. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2011-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
In two acquisitions this month, Fry Communications, a leading publication printer, has added to the array of services it offers customers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
While publishers and Apple haggle over the pending launch of a digital newsstand, Barnes & Noble took the opportunity to remind everyone that it not only has a functional newsstand, but it's chugging right along. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Sphere has acquired the autobiography of US comedy star Tina Fey, with editor-in-chief Antonia Hodgson acquiring British Commonwealth (incl. Australia and New Zealand) rights. Hodgson bought the rights to the title, Bossypants, from Hachette US, where it will be... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Caroline Horn School library services (SLS) in Birmingham and Sutton are to close or substantially reduce the service they offer to schools, while in Greenwich the service suspended on a temporary basis in 2009 will not now be resumed. The news follows recent closures of services... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Gayle Feldman Kindle sales of a book could be as much as 80% of its physical sales, Amazon's head of Kindle content told Digital Book World. Russ Grandinetti's speech, 'To Help Publishers Optimize E-book Sales', coincided with the launch of Kindle Singles on Amazon's Kindle store.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Philip Jones The system of lending one ebook per library user works for authors, agents, booksellers and librarians, a session at Digital Book World discussing the sector heard yesterday. At the session, entitled 'Where Do Libraries Fit Into the Ecosystem?', publishers were... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Demand Media started trading on the New York Stock Exchange this week, making it one of the first IPOs of 2011 and certainly one of the largest media IPOs that will be seen all year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Hodder & Stoughton has acquired the account of the life of "real life Charlotte Gray". Pearl Witherington was the only female agent in the Special Operations Executive to run her own network in France during the second world war. Hodder non-fiction publisher... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
While magazine Web sites are starting to take a back seat to other channels that reach readers on a daily basis (such as Facebook and Twitter) they remain the centerpiece for many publishers' digital strategies. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]