Last week, TechCrunch reported that Google was in talks to buy display advertising company Admeld for $400 million. Now, it looks like the deal has been closed. Google announced Monday that it had signed a deal to officially acquire Admeld. Financial terms of the acquisition weren't disclosed,... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2011-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
CondeNet UK, the digital business of magazine publisher Condé Nast UK, edged closer to profitability in 2010, reducing its losses to £180,528, according to its latest financial results. Continue reading >> [ Source: Media Week | 2011-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Rachel Bradley Publication Date: Tue, 14/06/2011 - 08:25 Picador has scooped two nominations on the shortlist for the Dolman Travel book of the year. Parisians by Graham Robb and Germania by Simon Winder are on the six-strong list for the £2,500 prize, the UK's only travel writing... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Tue, 14/06/2011 - 15:12 Ladybird Books is to publish a series of pre-school children's books in collaboration with singer and TV star Peter Andre. Publishing director Eric Huang, who bought world English language rights, excluding North America,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Barbara Casassus Publication Date: Tue, 14/06/2011 - 14:11 The renaming of half a Paris street as rue Gaston Gallimard on 15th June to mark the publisher's 100th anniversary is being challenged by a campaign "Sauvez votre bottin". read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Philip Stone Publication Date: Tue, 14/06/2011 - 16:09 John Grisham's The Confession (Arrow) has retained its position at the summit of the Official UK Top 50 despite a 24% drop in sales week-on-week. read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Tue, 14/06/2011 - 15:10 Lonely Planet has appointed Sheema Mookherjee as publisher for its Indian publishing arm. Mookerherjee's most recent role was looking after HarperCollins India's non-fiction and reference lists, and she started work at... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Rachel Bradley and Katie Allen Publication Date: Tue, 14/06/2011 - 17:23 Titles from Cressida Cowell, Sita Brahmachari and Jon Mayhew have been selected for Booktrust"s Booked Up programme, which sees 17 titles on offer to all year seven pupils in England. Over 650,000 free books... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams and Philip Stone Publication Date: Tue, 14/06/2011 - 15:19 Irish book chain and stationers Eason has launched a daily offers site, EasonOffers.com, with the website offering a large discount on one item at a time each day, with free delivery to anywhere in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Tue, 14/06/2011 - 08:34 Headline non-fiction publisher Carly Cook is to join Simon & Schuster as deputy editorial director of non-fiction, reporting to editorial director Mike Jones. read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
PCWorld managed to snag previews of some of the pages, although they are a work-in-progress as the pages have not yet been colored or had speech bubbles put in. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2011-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Tue, 14/06/2011 - 08:27 Pop singer turned TV star Peter Andre is joining the ranks of the champions of children's literacy by fronting the launch of a new London scheme. Andre joins London's mayor Boris Johnson at the Botwell Green library and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Caroline Horn Publication Date: Tue, 14/06/2011 - 12:40 Michael Morpurgo has won the Red House Children's Book Award 2011 for Shadow (HarperCollinsChildren's Books) becoming the only author to win the award three times. Angela McAllister and Alison Edgson's Yuck! That's not a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Tue, 14/06/2011 - 08:55 Tesco has revealed overall UK non-food growth is "still negative" in its first quarter results this morning (14th June). The supermarket chain has seen its like-for-like sales excluding petrol increase by 1% in the UK in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publication Date: Wed, 15/06/2011 - 08:50 Titles on Chairman Mao, the Cavaliers of the English Civil War and Italian artist Caravaggio have been shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2011. The six-strong list a reflection of a remarkable publishing year features Mao's... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Retailing for $185,000, the Espresso Book Machine, developed by On Demand Books, costs more than the annual revenue of some independent bookstores. But with a new partnership with the American Booksellers Association to help get frontlist and midlist titles from mainstream houses (something that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Philip Jones Publication Date: Tue, 14/06/2011 - 08:50 Intellectual property agency 1454 has developed a new interactive children's adventure series that will be published exclusively on the Kindle worldwide. It is thought to be the first time a children's series has been produced... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
IGN Entertainment, the News Corporation-owned publisher of IGN and AskMen, has appointed Michael Hand to the newly created role of head of consumer and lifestyle, as it moves to grow its UK commercial team. Continue reading >> [ Source: Media Week | 2011-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
WS Publishing Group, formerly known as Wedding Solutions Publishing, is moving to Perseus Distribution for sales and distribution in the U.S. and Canada as of July 1. Best known for its wedding planning and wedding related books, WS Publishing also publishes in the categories of baby and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publication Date: Mon, 13/06/2011 - 08:55 Emma Henderson's Orange-shortlisted Grace Williams Says It Loud and the latest novel by American thriller writer Dennis Lehane have been picked for the summer season of "The TV Book Club". Returning on Sunday 26th June on More 4, with repeats on Channel... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]