Anna Boiardi's family founded Chef Boyardee more than 70 years ago, spelling their name phonetically to help Americans pronounce it. Now, Boiardi teaches cooking classes and has written Delicious Memories, which Stewart, Tabori & Chang will publish in May. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Organic growth will be the primary driver of the media business over the next 12 to 24 months, according to nearly 500 executives in the information, marketing services and technology sectors, according to the first annual Media Growth survey from investment banker The Jordan, Edmiston Group and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
In 1919, the young E.B. White, future New Yorker writer and author of Charlotte's Web, took a class at Cornell University with a drill sergeant of an English professor named William Strunk Jr. Strunk assigned his self-published manual on composition titled "The Elements of Style," a 43-page list... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2011-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
That might be the best news yet, as long as publishers remember why they went into bankruptcy in the first place. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
If the old adage that 10 percent of your staff does 90 percent of the work rings true, the same could be said for your Web site traffic. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sanchia Berg reports on the publishing company Pearson who have bought a majority stake in an Indian online tutoring company Tutorvista Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2011-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Top executives of some of the leading fulfillment companies were assembled for FMA's annual President's Panel yesterday to provide an update on their companies and how the market is evolving. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
NewPage, the largest maker of coated paper in the U.S., is scrambling to keep the owner of paper rival Verso Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ten years ago, as the prospect of monetizing Web sites started becoming a reality for publishers, different departments butted heads over prime real estate: editorial wanted it for content; sales wanted it for advertising; marketing wanted it for promotion. Today, as the emphasis shifts away... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
As Simon & Schuster prepares to release O: A Presidential Novel, based on the Obama administration and starring a thinly veiled Barack Obama as the character "O," the publisher is trying to keep the identity of its anonymous author under wraps. Slate imagines a few possibilities.[more ...] Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2011-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sly Bailey, the chief executive of newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror, has issued cutting criticism of the culture secretary Jeremy Hunt's understanding of the full media issues regarding News Corporation's relationship to BSkyB. Continue reading >> [ Source: Media Week | 2011-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers are launching iPhone and iPad apps on a daily basis (unless you're Bonnier, then it seems almost hourly). Many are coming from the usual suspects with deep pockets--Hearst, Conde Nast, Time Inc. etc. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pearson, the publisher of the Financial Times, said it expects its headline company operating profits to balloon by around 20% in 2010, helped by the performance of its flagship business newspaper. Continue reading >> [ Source: Media Week | 2011-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette Filipacchi is to close teen print magazine Sugar in March, which has suffered flagging circulation figures, and ahead of an anticipated group sale to US publisher Hearst. Continue reading >> [ Source: Media Week | 2011-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster requested that journalists and other writers not comment if asked whether they were responsible for the novel O, about a fictional 2012 presidential campaign. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2011-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
NewPage Paper and Verso--the largest makers of coated paper and the subject of merger rumors last year--are b Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
A year-old social networking and digital distribution platform that aims to bring writers and agents together has created a contest to find "the next big crime fiction blockbuster." Circalit, launched in February 2010 as a place for screenwriters to showcase their work to studios, began inviting... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
After several stark years in which stores like Cody's in San Francisco and Davis-Kidd Booksellers in Nashville closed and the nation's second largest chain is teetering more than ever, publishers and booksellers are looking for new ways to work together. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Attendance dipped to its lowest level in a decade and traffic on the show floor was noticeably slow, but last week's 2011 American Library Association Midwinter Meeting in San Diego, Calif., was anything but quiet. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lloyd Shepherd, former director of news and information products at Yahoo and (disclaimer) deputy director of digital publishing at GU, has a new company and a new project in the form of Messy Media which is set to roll out a series of specialist news blogs.The company launched its first... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2007-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]