Written By: Philip Jones Publication Date: Tue, 22/03/2011 - 19:52 A New York judge has ruled that the revised Google Book Settlement is not "fair, adequate, and reasonable" and has denied final approval. Judge Denny Chin has instead told the parties to redraft the settlement as an "opt-in"... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 23/03/2011 - 15:45 Random House Children's Books is to publish the final book in Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle this autumn. The fourth title will be called Inheritance, following Eragon, Eldest and Brisingr. It will be published... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Recognizing the fluid state of digital magazine publishing, the ABC board of directors has just modified a key requirement for qualifying a "replica" digital edition. Advertising in the print and digital editions no longer needs to be identical. The board's vote at their mid-March meeting was... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Tue, 22/03/2011 - 16:31 The Japanese earthquake and tsunami has caused the worst disruption to the Japanese book industry since the Second World War, the president of the Japanese Publishers Association has said. read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publication Date: Tue, 22/03/2011 - 17:23 Ten young illustrators, including artists published by Walker, Simon & Schuster and Tate, have been named as the Booktrust Best New Illustrators 2011. The 10 were presented with their awards at a ceremony in central London this evening [22nd March]... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Philip Stone Publication Date: Tue, 22/03/2011 - 15:36 Spending on printed books in the UK slumped for a third consecutive week to a new 2011 low, with this week's number one the lowest-selling top title for more than seven years. read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google took a slap at Microsoft on Tuesday, saying the software giant's patent lawsuit against bookseller Barnes & Noble's Android-based e-reader stifles... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2011-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Tue, 22/03/2011 - 08:30 Transworld has acquired three novels by debut author Victoria Lamb, all set in the time of Elizabeth I's reign. Publishing director Selina Walker bought world rights in the trilogy from agent Luigi Bonomi, and will... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Barbara Casassus Publication Date: Tue, 22/03/2011 - 16:45 Hachette Livre and the French National Library (BnF) have signed a print-on-demand agreement for the publisher to sell through bookshops out-of-copyright works from the BnFs online library Gallica. An initial 15,000 titles... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Huffington Post has taken a lot of knocks for building its business (which sold to AOL earlier this month for $315 million) partly by using unpaid bloggers. Those knocks became official last week with The Newspaper Guild, a union of media workers in the U.S. with 26,000 members, calling for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Bookseller Staff Publication Date: Tue, 22/03/2011 - 16:40 Two of US publishing's leading commentators are moving into the conference business with Publishers Launch Conferences, which will "convene up to eight events in four cities over the next year", including New York, San... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
After putting select teen and romance titles up for sale last month, New York City-based Dorchester Media has decided to sell the rest of its magazine stable, offering up the eight magazines that comprise the Woman's Romance Group, such as 92-year-old, 250,000-circ. flagship True Story. The move... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Looks like Conde Nast might be putting Voice of the Internet Reddit on the lot. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Caroline Horn Publication Date: Tue, 22/03/2011 - 08:39 Puffin has acquired world rights, including film and TV, in a dystopian romance series Fever by debut author Dee Shulman. The publisher will be showcasing the trilogy at Bologna Children's Book Fair next week and has already... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Mon, 21/03/2011 - 15:45 Waterstone's has called for academic publishers to "significantly" increase their support for the chain, warning bricks and mortar academic bookselling could vanish from the high street within a few years. The retailer's m.d.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Barbara Casassus Publication Date: Mon, 21/03/2011 - 11:26 E-book sales by Hachette Livre in the United States are in line with the national average, according to the group's chairman and c.e.o. Arnaud Nourry. He told the Buzz Média service of the French daily Le Figaro that ebooks... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amanda Hocking, the darling of the self-publishing world who has sold more than 900,000 copies of nine books in the last year, has been shopping a four-book series to major publishers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2011-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
It's the Stieg Larsson show in 2010 paperback bestsellers. The first two books of his enormously successful trilogy racked up sales of more than 10,942,000 in their mass market and paperback editions. That's more than the combined sales of two other stellar sellersJames Patterson and Nora... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Philip Jones Publication Date: Mon, 21/03/2011 - 08:53 HarperCollins is to publish Darren Shan's backlist as ebooks, having concluded a deal with the Christopher Little Agency for the digital rights. Shan has been published in print by HarperCollins Children's Books for a decade... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Mon, 21/03/2011 - 15:15 Simon & Schuster has signed a new picture book deal with the creative duo behind the Aliens Love Underpants series. Emma Blackburn, picture book editorial director at S&S, bought world rights to Monstersaurus from... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]