Ogden Publications will be combining their in-house fulfillment database with their e-mail service provider to better market content and consumer products to readers.The blending of Advantage Computing Systems fulfillment platform with the iPost iMM digital e-mail marketing technology is... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Wed, 20/04/2011 - 09:45 The BBC is broadcasting an item on The Culture Show about science fiction next month, in the wake of a row about the broadcasters approach to genre fiction. read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon just eliminated one of the biggest differences between the Kindle and competing e-readers. It said today it will be rolling out the Kindle Library Lending feature later this year, allowing customers to borrow books for free from more than 11,000 libraries in the U.S. Other e-readers and... Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2011-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Wed, 20/04/2011 - 15:13 Palazzo Editions will publish a "major" retrospective of the work of Steven Spielberg in August 2012, written in co-operation with the director. Steven Spielberg: A Retrospective will be written by film critic and documentary... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Wed, 20/04/2011 - 08:38 Simon & Schuster has bought world rights to a book by Tottenham and England footballer Paul Gascoigne. Described as a "celebration" of his career, Glorious: My World, Football and Me will be published on 13th October 2011.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Denver, Colorado-based regional magazine 5280 has acquired the intellectual property of its main competitor, Denver Magazine, including Federal trademark of the brand name, Internet domains including http://denvermagazine.cim and Denver's Twitter account and Facebook pages. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Wed, 20/04/2011 - 07:27 A first planning meeting is to be held to establish a National Libraries Day, after widespread support for the idea from organisations including the Booksellers Association, the National Union of Teachers, Booktrust, The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 99-cents a week-service looks like the kind of thing that could drive the New York Times and the Associated Press batty. Instead, they've signed on for a piece of the action. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2011-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 20/04/2011 - 12:11 The Publishers Association has said it is "delighted" by the High Court ruling in favour of the government in a legal challenge against the Digital Economy Act. read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
More and more mainstream publishers seem to be exploring custom content. We all know that there is significant change taking place, and I hear evidence of this change in the questions I am asked from time to time. Here are a few of the common questions and my perspective on these issues. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
United Business Media (UBM) shared its first quarter report today, with a 13.7 percent increase in total revenue, rising from 2010 first quarters $338.74 million to first quarter 2011s $385.07 million. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Tue, 19/04/2011 - 09:51 Bloomsbury has purchased the backlist of The National Archives Publishing programme, and entered into an agreement to co-publish a range of forthcoming titles. The National Archives of the United Kingdom, in Kew, holds... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
In a statement released yesterday, Demand Media reaffirms the financial outlook for fiscal year 2011 given on February 22, despite the Google algorithm change which took place in late February. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publication Date: Tue, 19/04/2011 - 08:33 Mainstream Publishing has acquired a second title by Hooked author Clare Gee. Joint m.d. Bill Campbell acquired world rights to the as yet untitled book from Isabel Atherton at Creative Authors Ltd. Hooked, Gee's debut, told the story of her life as a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Tue, 19/04/2011 - 09:40 Tesco UK sales rose by 5.5% in a year where the company said book sales "grew well." The supermarket released its preliminary results for the 52 weeks to 26th February 2011 this morning (19th April), showing that UK sales grew... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the first step of a two-phase launch, the long-awaited Los Angeles Review of Books has debuted its preview site at lareviewofbooks.org with essays and reviews by Ben Ehrenreich, Geoff Nicholson, Jane Smiley, Jefferson Hunter, and Richard Prince. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Here's a clever idea from Chris Dixon: The investor and entrepreneur has turned his well-read blog into an ebook. Dixon, who runs Hunch and helps steer Founder Collective's bets when he's not blogging, has taken a couple years' worth of posts and compiled them into "Startups; Dixon's proceeds... Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2011-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Tue, 19/04/2011 - 11:04 Former Colman Getty PR Mark Hutchinson has launched his own consultancy, Mark Hutchinson Management (MHM), taking high-profile names including J K Rowling with him. The consultancy will specialise in profile management and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publication Date: Tue, 19/04/2011 - 08:41 Nikesh Shukla's Costa-nominated Coconut Unlimited has been longlisted for the £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize 2011, the award for a first novel published in the UK. read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The new Adweek debuts this week with a letter from editorial director Michael Wolff promising that this "is not your father's trade magazine." The brand--which merges sister titles Brandweek and Mediaweek--boasts a new look in print (with a redesign from storied magazine designers Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]